http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-dcfchange.art.artnov07,0,3027756.story
DCF Merits Review
The state Department of Children and Families has nothing
to fear from, in the words of Attorney General Richard
Blumenthal, a "top-to-bottom, outside, objective review"
of the agency, which costs taxpayers $1 billion a year.
The point, after all, is to provide the best services
possible for the children the agency serves.
Its record has been spotty. The agency is still trying
to resolve a federal consent decree handed down
17 years ago. Although it has met the majority of
criteria established by the court after the death
in 1991 of infant Juan F., critical steps remain
undone. This past summer, the agreement had to be
renegotiated after the plaintiffs, impatient with lack
of progress, asked that the agency be placed
in federal receiver****p.
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