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Gov. Rick Scott has made Mike Carroll his permanent secretary of the Department of Children & Families.Scott on Monday removed the "interim" from…
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In the months before a Volusia County man shot his three children, his wife's drinking seemed to be tearing the family apart.According to documents…
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Republican Gov. Rick Scott repeatedly tells voters that abused and neglected children are safer under his leadership than when his Democratic opponent…
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Over an eight-year period, Florida's child welfare agency was repeatedly called with allegations that the six children of Sarah Spirit were being…
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Two weeks before a Florida man fatally shot his daughter and six grandchildren, someone called the state child abuse hotline, worried that adults were…
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A Florida Keys child whose family had “a long history” with Florida’s Department of Children & Families was found dead in his parents’ home, the Miami…
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It’s still unclear what the final version of Florida’s child-welfare reform legislation will look like this year, as the session draws to a close.Several…
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A Miami judge is criticizing child welfare administrators who wanted to leave three children at a home where their cousin died days earlier, according to…
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Following another year in which too many children died, lawmakers promised to make Florida a safer place for the state’s at-risk children. However,…
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A legislator who sponsored a bill to drug test Florida welfare recipients supports legalizing a strain of medical marijuana. Rep. Jimmie Smith, R-Lecanto,…