According to an internal report by the department’s general counsel obtained by the Times-Union, the Florida Department of Children and Families repeatedly violated state laws and its own procedures by not releasing records to lawyers for children in a Nassau County foster home abuse case.
The department also improperly destroyed and misplaced some records, failed to retrieve others from foster parents and illegally released confidential child-abuse reports without a court order to a lawyer representing department employees.
Those were the same records that department lawyers in Jacksonville told the children’s lawyers they couldn’t find, a situation the report called “inexplicable.”
The report says: “The facts and circumstances of this case reveal that record management procedures in the Northeast region are inadequate.”
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DCF shirked procedures in Nassau abuse case
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The department also improperly destroyed and misplaced some records, failed to retrieve others from foster parents and illegally released confidential child-abuse reports without a court order to a lawyer representing department employees.
Those were the same records that department lawyers in Jacksonville told the children’s lawyers they couldn’t find, a situation the report called “inexplicable.”
The report says: “The facts and circumstances of this case reveal that record management procedures in the Northeast region are inadequate.”
Full Article and Source:
DCF shirked procedures in Nassau abuse case
See also:
DCF slapped over sloppy records -
Report criticizes agency in case of suspected foster children abuse
Court allows suit over alleged abuse
These people should keep their records and make sure that they are accurate so that "mistakes" don't happen.
ReplyDeleteThey are playing games with peoples lives.
This is very serious LIFE and DEATH decisions by incompetent people collecting paychecks for doing what?
ReplyDeleteGet rid of them - all of those involved in this negligence and cover-up post haste!
Then they must be criminally charged or this unacceptable behavior and wrongdoing will continue.
My heart is broken after reading this story.
ReplyDeleteAccountability is the only way to hold people to do their job and not sluff off or play games.
ReplyDeleteCT DCF Commissioner Hamilon arrested for DUI
ReplyDeletethe other day. This agency is deplorable. Victims families and their Advocates/whistleblowers have testified year after year for over ten years at CT Legislative Hearings, filed complaints with the AG's office and Advocate Agencies and the CT Government continues to PROTECT this Agency for its own self interests at the expense of children's lives. Commissioner Hamilton is an abomination and a prime example at this Agency; driving while under the influence of alcohol undermines every parent's teaching to their children. Hamilton should be fired immediately as an example to CT's children that we do not tolerate driving drunk by Authority figures that have control over children's lives.