DCF Watchdogs: Keep Federal Court Oversight

DCF Watchdogs: Keep Federal Court Oversight
By Rick Green on August 9, 2010 2:59 PM


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 children and should remain under federal oversight. Under a 20-year-old consent decree arising from a class-action lawsuit, a federal court has closely monitored efforts to improve the child protection agency.

In the most recent incident raising questions about DCF, the agency failed to remove five children from a Torrington home after police notified them of potentially dangerous conditions.

DCF has asked to be removed from federal control, but Millstein says the agency has too many group homes, too few foster familes and sends too many children to institutions out of state.

From a new court brief filed by Milstein:

http://blogs.courant.com/rick_green/2010/08/dcf-watchdogs-keep-federal-cou.html