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Workers Save Group Homes in St. Louis County

Source: Stepping Up (.pdf), AFSCME Minnesota Council 5, May/June 2007, page 3

A chronic biter who's forced to wear a mask lives in St. Louis County and AFSCME members take care of him.

That's what elected officials discovered after the state gave notice of the closure of five group homes for the developmentally disabled in St. Louis County, effective June 30, 2007

...... JoAnn [Holton] asked elected officials a disturbing question: "Who's going to take care of the biter? His family doesn't want him. And private vendors cherry-pick the easiest consumers; they don't pick the biters."