Frustrated that state officials have scrubbed crucial, and often embarrassing, details from a state report on children who have died from abuse, the head of the key Senate oversight committee said Thursday that it may be time to take the job away from the administration. “It seems they are less transparent that they have been […]
Transparency Lost: Little disclosure on child deaths – Miami Herald
In December 2009, the state panel that reviews child abuse deaths released a 179-page report. The document included a detailed analysis of what killed Florida children the year before, dozens of charts and graphs describing both the victims and perpetrators of child abuse, and brief memorials for several of the youngsters whose lives were cut short. The […]
New DCF chief promises to keep agency’s child death reports “as open as can be’’ – Miami Herald
Mike Carroll pledges a greater emphasis on preventing child deaths and backs off agency’s recent clamp down on information. Hours into his first day as top administrator of the Department of Children & Families, Mike Carroll on Monday began a far-reaching reform of his agency’s response to child deaths — and promised to make the […]
