Editorial: An eye on FSSA
Source: South Bend Tribune (IN), March 27. 2007 6:59AM
Go ahead, call us skeptical. It has been made very clear in this space that we have deep and abiding concerns about statewide privatization of the delivery of welfare services to 1.1 million needy Hoosiers.
It would have been reassuring, as the privatization contract with a consortium of IBM and Affiliated Computer Services was negotiated, if Gov. Mitch Daniels had permitted the Indiana General Assembly an oversight role. But the governor took it upon himself to enter into the $1.16 billion, 10-year deal between the state Family and Social Services Administration and the IBM-ACS group.
FSSA Secretary Mitch Roob was a vice president of ACS prior to coming to work for Daniels.