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Torrington DCF Case: Read The Arrest Warrant
More in my column tomorrow, but this affidavit makes it clear why police were worried about Erica Shaw's five children on the night of July 11. Why DCF failed to act remains under investigation. Here's...
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Still On Hold With DCF
We can't expect the state Department of Children and Families to solve all of the ugly problems of poverty.But DCF must protect children -- even if it means removing them from their parents. Today's...
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DCF Watchdogs: Keep Federal Court Oversight
The state's child advocate, Jeanne Milstein, and another group, the Center for Children's Advocacy, say the Department of Children and Families continues to fail to adequately protect our neediest...
View ArticleTeenager Stabbing: Child Advocate Probes DCF Connection
On the same day that state legislators will begin a probe into the state Department of Children and Families, there are new questions about the agency's connection to a child stabbed overnight in...
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DCF Commissioner AWOL From Legislative Hearing
The commissioner of the Department of Children and Families can't be bothered to come to a legislative hearing called after an uproar over the agency's handling of five young children found...
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Where Was DCF Commissioner Susan Hamilton Yesterday?
She was MIA at a legislative hearing called in the wake of an outcry over the Department of Children and Families handling of a Torrington child endangerment case. You'll find her excuse in the second...
View ArticleDCF Torrington Case: No Screw Up, But Hotline Flawed
DCF has announced that its own internal review has found that the agency did not make a mistake in failing to remove five children from a home this past July. The agency acknowledged that leaving...
View ArticleDCF's "Investigation" Into Torrington Endangerment Fiasco
"There appear to have been no immediate physical safety concerns at the home," the DCF press release concludes, "... that would have warranted removing them immediately prior to seeking a court order."...
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DCF In Torrington: UCONN Law's Prof. Paul Chill Weighs In
Paul Chill, a professor at UCONN Law School, has a different perspective on the Torrington child endangerment case where critics, like me, have suggested that DCF may have been too slow to act. Chill's...
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Judge Rejects To Remove DCF From Federal Oversight
UPDATE: Judge DENIES DCF's Motion to be released from federal oversight. If the Department of Children and Families cares so much about protecting kids, what is the big hurry-up to remove the agency...
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Malloy Taps Supremes' Joette Katz to Run DCF
From the Malloy administration: (HARTFORD, CT) - Governor-Elect Dan Malloy made his second commissioner-level appointment today, naming Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Joette Katz to lead the...
View ArticleDCF Report: Rell Napping, Problems Immense For Malloy
The latest report from the court monitor overseeing the state Department of Children and Families shows that under Gov. Rell, the troubled state agency failed to make much progress. Children's Rights,...
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Foster Family Crisis: Voices For Children Investigates
How could something so obvious -- finding more families to host children who have no family -- get so screwed up? We had a net loss of foster families during the last six months of 2010, even as...
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DCF's Katz Promises Plan For More Foster Families In July
DCF Commissioner Joette Katz writes that a strategy for attacking one of the Department of Children and Families' most embarassing failures -- the lack of foster families -- will arrive this month. She...
View ArticleWhile DCF And Court Debate, A Boy Sits in Jail
While the Department of Children and Families fights a court-ordered placement for a mentally ill 15-year-old boy who plead guilty to unarmed robbery, the kid languishes in jail. DCF, understandable,...
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