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Fla. can't find 1,000 kids in state custody
CNN ^ | 06.04.02 | CNN

Posted on 06/04/2002 10:02:42 AM PDT by callisto

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:00:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: callisto
This really has gone on since well before the 1990s. Looks like it's time to look through archives of FL papers.

Your memory serves you well. DCF became HRS under Gov. Bob Martinez back in the '80's after a number of children in HRS care died due to negligence or abuse. HRS was re-org'd into DCF. I guess that re-org did not work nor change anything.

This is yet another government agency that should be abolished and it's monies allocated to private charitable organizations.

---max

21 posted on 06/04/2002 10:43:15 AM PDT by max61
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To: stevemitch
This is just more leftist CNN Propaganda to discredit Jeb Bush to keep him from being re-elected in Florida in 2002 and elected to the Presidency in 2008.

I'm all for him being Governor again, but surely you don't think the U.S. would elect another Bush to the Presidency do you?

22 posted on 06/04/2002 10:55:10 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Clara Lou
I wonder how similar agencies in other states would stand under the same scrutiny? For instance-- New York?

My thoughts exactly. ESPECIALLY NEW YORK - the "HOME" of the Hildebeast.

23 posted on 06/04/2002 10:55:20 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: callisto
"You just can't get much more incompetent than this agency it appears."

You ever hear of the Federal Government?

24 posted on 06/04/2002 11:09:30 AM PDT by sinclair
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To: callisto
Caseworkers could not visit four other children because of court orders preventing them from doing so

I'd sure like to know the basic stories behind THIS little statistic.

25 posted on 06/04/2002 11:12:29 AM PDT by KentuckyWoman
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To: sinclair
Tooling through the Tampa Tribune yielded these plums from 1992 (and I only looked briefly for 1992...there's LOTS more.) For some reason the second title won't appear as a link in the preview, but it goes to the same series of articles pulled in teh series already linked.
Relatives not always suited to take in abused children
Published on December 13, 1992

Florida's abused and neglected children sometimes are hurt again in homes of grandparents, aunts, uncles and other relatives where the state had intended to protect them, new reports show.

The Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS) routinely places abused and neglected children with relatives rather than in foster care, but often fails to conduct thorough background checks or to ensure the relative provides a safe home, the reports say.


Elderly deaths probe prompts criticism
Published on December 19, 1992

It is ""totally inexcusable'' that the state's social services agency has yet to address its 2-year-old concerns over deaths of three elderly people who had lived in homes run by a Sarasota mother and daughter, a watchdog group said Friday.

The statewide Long-Term Care Ombudsman Council also wants an outside agency to investigate the relationship between the homes' owners and workers at the state Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS).


HRS computer buy scrutinized by panel
Published on December 29, 1992

Questions about computer purchases and performance at Florida's social services agency already have spurred a criminal investigation, the firing of one top official and the forced resignation of another.

Today, the state Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS) will have to answer more questions to win approval for a $9.5 million IBM mainframe that was installed in August without a purchase order or any bids. The acquisition also is one of several being reviewed by the...


26 posted on 06/04/2002 11:28:30 AM PDT by callisto
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To: callisto
Fla. can't find 1,000 kids in state custody

And I suppose each one took a Gore ballot before disappearing...

27 posted on 06/04/2002 11:30:50 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves
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To: stevemitch
This is just more leftist CNN Propaganda to discredit Jeb Bush to keep him from being re-elected in Florida in 2002 and elected to the Presidency in 2008. So you say it isn't a true report? Blackbird.
28 posted on 06/04/2002 12:11:56 PM PDT by BlackbirdSST
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To: callisto
Did they look in Janet Reno's closet?
29 posted on 06/04/2002 12:13:20 PM PDT by Talkwire
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To: NautiNurse
"Caseworkers could not visit four other children because of court orders preventing them from doing so."

HUH? I don't understand this one. I could maybe understand a court order prohibiting an individual caseworker from visiting a specific child, but the whole agency? I'm so confused, maybe I'll just good back to sleep.

30 posted on 06/04/2002 2:03:00 PM PDT by MrNeutron1962
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To: Corin Stormhands
Well if the other choice is Clinton, I would vote Bush every time.
31 posted on 06/04/2002 6:07:28 PM PDT by marajade
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To: MrNeutron1962
Maybe they are in protective custody?
32 posted on 06/04/2002 6:09:05 PM PDT by marajade
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To: KentuckyWoman
I'm sure its public record.
33 posted on 06/04/2002 6:09:47 PM PDT by marajade
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To: callisto
Check the DNC state employees closets.
34 posted on 06/04/2002 6:12:42 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
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To: marajade
Well if the other choice is Clinton, I would vote Bush every time.

Sure, all of us here would. But what about the sheeple? Don't get me wrong. I like Jeb. But that whole "dynasty" think could turn into a negative.

35 posted on 06/04/2002 6:57:17 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
Why? It would be making history... and I think that would be a good thing... and let's not stop there either... George P too...
36 posted on 06/04/2002 7:10:36 PM PDT by marajade
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To: MrNeutron1962, marajade
I could maybe understand a court order prohibiting an individual caseworker from visiting a specific child, but the whole agency?

Sounds like a gaggle of starving lawyers doing their mating dance in the face of drought and pestilence. The fledglings either get eaten alive, smashed in the turf battle, or tossed out of the nest.

37 posted on 06/04/2002 8:37:51 PM PDT by NautiNurse
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