Foster care inquiry sought / Two lawmakers request House-Senate investigation after recent failures.
Source: By MELANIE AVE, St Petersburg Times (FL), August 3, 2007
Two state Democratic lawmakers asked for a legislative review of Florida's public-private child welfare system Thursday, on the heels of several high-profile debacles involving dead, raped and missing children under the state's care.
……. Lawmaker input is needed to help clarify the murky relationship between DCF and its subcontractors, the private agencies responsible for foster children in the state's 67 counties, said Andrea Moore, director of the advocacy group Florida's Children First.