DCF's Crimes? The Courant fired Colin Poitras
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: DCF's Crimes? The Courant fired Colin Poitras
Date: Apr 13, 2010 2:23 PM
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Um, well, just because DCF's crimes
are no longer being reported does not
mean they don't persist. The Courant
fired the only public DCF watchdog-
Colin Poitras.
The timing of this is odd, given that
Suzanne Listro was granted a real
defense in the murder of Michael
Brown, whereas children and parent
http://www.actionlyme.org/andersonpenisbiter.htm
permanently traumatized by DCF
are not even allowed their 6th
Amendment right to due process
before the execution of the punishment.
This smells like DCF is somewhat
afraid of what will happen when the
lawsuits start rolling in over
DCF's abundant pedophilia:
http://www.actionlyme.org/andersonpenisbiter.htm
Given DCF's role in the Lyme crymes and
their huge failure of children with Lyme
disease, one wonders what this garbage
is really all about... like a class
action lawsuit against the State of
Corrupticut, maybe, for all the children
they deliberately maimed with their
Yale and UConn (and Medical Board)Lyme
crymes?
We still haven't been advised as to
why DCF is allowed to steal the Attorney
General's mail right off of his desk:
http://www.actionlyme.org/BLUMENTHALS_MAIL_STOLEN_BY_JESSICA_GAUVIN.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/USDOJ_COMPLAINT_RICO.htm
after the AG's office ^^^ advised me to file
this Lyme RICO complaint to the USDOJ.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-dcf-connecticut-0413,0,6399941,print.story
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State Asks Court To End 20-Year Federal Oversight Of DCF
By CHRISTOPHER KEATING
The Hartford Courant
2:02 PM EDT, April 13, 2010
Seeking to end 20 years of federal court rule, the state has filed a
motion to end federal oversight of the Department of Children and
Families.
If approved, the end of the oversight of the state's long-troubled
child welfare system would save the state millions of dollars in
future lawyers' fees and court monitoring costs. So far, the state has
spent more than $10 million on such fees in the case.
The oversight has lasted for four governors and two decades. It
originated in a highly publicized case, known as the Juan F. consent
decree, that has led to major changes in the department.
The federal court monitoring was established following a class-action
lawsuit filed against the state in December 1989 that said the child
welfare system was in a state of "systemic, ongoing crisis.''
The state now says it has made enough progress that the monitoring can
be lifted.
"The system that existed 20 years ago has been dramatically,
substantially changed, and federal court oversight is no longer
needed,'' DCF Commissioner Susan Hamilton said. "We've been operating
this system effectively for years. ... In our case, there's clearly no
longer a need for this to continue. There's no risk of it reverting
back to the way it was 20 years ago.''
Hamilton added, "It is time to stop spending millions of taxpayer
dollars on lawyers and monitoring in a case that is no longer
necessary."
DCF's motion was filed one day after the group that filed the original
lawsuit, Children's Rights Inc. of New York City, said the state has
failed to make court-ordered improvements to better care for abused
and neglected children. In a letter to the state, the group said it
would be forced to go back to the federal court if changes are not
made in the coming months.
"Connecticut has continued to backslide on reforms,'' said Ira
Lustbader, an attorney with Children's Rights. "These kids simply
cannot wait another eight months for a new administration and for
state officials to begin to make good on its promises.''
Gov. M. Jodi Rell, who was a state legislator from Brookfield when the
original case was filed, strongly supports the state's motion.
"Working together, we have utterly transformed the way the state cares
for children and families in crisis," Rell said in a written
statement. "These are no cosmetic fixes – they are changes that run
through the very bedrock of the agency. We have amply demonstrated
Connecticut's lasting commitment to improved training, care and
services. It is now time to end the costly oversight process and
return management of DCF to the state."
Since the lawsuit was filed, the department's overall budget has more
than tripled – from about $250 million per year to the current level
of more than $820 million in the current fiscal year. DCF has been in
the headlines through the years following the tragic deaths of
children, and the much-criticized department has had multiple
commissioners since the federal case began during the administration
of Gov. William A. O'Neill.
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