Semeria Hill (left), coordinator of the Infant and Child Death Review Program, and Laura Robertson (right), executive director of the Arkansas Commission on Child Abuse, Rape and Domestic Violence, give the Arkansas Infant and Child Death Review annual report during the Legislature’s Children and Youth committees’ joint meeting at the state Capitol on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Thomas Metthe)
After rising in 2020, the number of child deaths in Arkansas fell slightly in 2021 but was still higher than the number in 2019, according to annual reports by the state's Infant and Child Death Review Program.
