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A bill winding its way through the legislature seeks to ease backlogs in child abuse and neglect investigations by allowing Missouri’s social services agency to outsource some work involving child abuse and neglect investigations to private contractors. Sponsored by Republican state Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman of Arnold, the bill was voted out of committee unanimously […] The post Missouri bill would let private contractors assist in child abuse investigations appeared first on Missouri Independ ....
A lawsuit says that investigators for the Administration for Children’s Services deceive and bully their way into people’s homes, where they rifle through families’ most private spaces, strip-search children and humiliate parents. ....
Allegation seems to me to go to his state of mind. just to be clear, i called i said that he was her father. it s actually the boyfriend of the mother. but mel, i want to ask you, department of children and families had two neglect investigations in the past with baby bella. one in 2012, the other in 2013. just because that case was closed, why would they skip over bella in the search for her identity? and does that also show negligence on the part of the community there for having taken away her parental rights and then this happens. you know, it s a terrific question and in all of these cases, jim, i think we all are left scratching our heads when you have a history of child services being involved and a parent who s had custody removed from former children is still able to have a case closed after two neglect appearances. certainly, it s a question. you ve got to look ahead about reform. but one thing i want to point out, jim, that is also ....