✨✨General Discussions

Our State County has a crimes map that can be looked up online. Our 100 acre campus is a blank area on the map with no crime points indicated.

Over a decade ago, we had a single crime point when new residents moving in told their moving company that they were leaving town for a cruise. You might guess that the moving company returned while they were gone and cleaned them out.

That point is no longer showing.

You might check out your State and County Crime Maps.

Maura Conry

Advisor to the Board

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Karen

At my Community here in California the policies and procedures part of our contractual obligations require residents to report a theft immediately to the Executive Director and follow that up with a police report. These are filed only with Management and the Police Department. They do not appear in a public location where potential new residents could view. It would seem to me that any action by Management to avoid such reporting so that they potentially avoid having to state that such things have occurred reports would be engaging in fraudulent activity.

If CCRC property is stolen, it appears that management may not want to report to authorities because they want prospective residents to believe that should they move in they and their possessions will be safe. Have you experienced thefts at your community that management chose not to report?

Several cases of which I am familiar as a social worker involved embezzlement of the estate of two older people that left the elder penniless. One was in a CCRC, so she was safe due to her live contract and was supported by the foundation. Another person lived in the community so did not enjoy these safeguards.

Both were referred to Adult Protective Services and to the State Attorney General. Another involved a substantial robbery from an independent living home, that was also turned over to the authorities.

Our population lives in CCRCs because we will need "continuing care." If we did not need continuing care we wouldn't be here. As we transition through the stages of needing care, we become less and less able to manage things such as police reports on our own and will need help and support in so doing. Security services is typically the first called or the police if indicated.

Fortunately, robberies are not too common but do occur. Staff/resident, resident/resident, outside provider/resident, etc. Each would be managed differently.

Maura Conry

NaCCRA

Crimes are against the state and do not require a citizen to 'press charges'

Would be Prosecuting Attorney's responsibility to determine if prosecution is appropriate and whether victims were willing to cooperate and press charges.

If resident property is stolen, it would be the resident's responsibility to file a police report. If CCRC property is stolen, it would be the CCRA's responsibility to file a police report.

When resident or CCRC property is stolen, does management prosecute?