Maine Bill Proposes Separate, Elevated State Agency for Children
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) A Maine lawmaker wants to make the state agency that serves children a separate, cabinet level-department.
The Portland Press Herald reports state Senator Bill Diamond introduced a bill that would remove the Office of Children and Family Services from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Speaking on Tuesday before a senate committee, the Democrat said the department was too large and complex to oversee child protective services. But the office s director Todd Landry said in a letter the costs and drawbacks of creating a new, separate department for children outweigh any benefits.
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State senator says stand-alone agency needed to fight child abuse in Maine
The bill would take the state Office of Child and Family Services and make it a separate, stand-alone state agency, with its own commissioner and budget Author: Don Carrigan Updated: 9:48 PM EDT April 13, 2021
AUGUSTA, Maine Sen. Bill Diamond (D-Cumberland) says he’s been looking for answers to Maine’s child abuse problems for 20 years, ever since little Logan Marr died at the hands of her foster mother.
That work became far more urgent in early 2018, after the deaths of two other little girls, Kendall Chick and Marissa Kennedy. Both children were already involved with Maine’s child protective system when they were abused and then killed by those supposed to be caring for them. Chick died after abuse by the girlfriend of her grandfather, with whom she had been sent to live after her own mother proved unable to care or a child.