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Jim RosicaOctober 2, 2015

The Florida Department of Children and Families and private companies it contracts with to oversee the state’s child-welfare system agreed to pay $750,000 to head off any lawsuits resulting from a Gilchrist County man who killed his daughter and his six grandchildren. Documents dealing with the settlement, one of which appeared hastily hand-written during a […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 3, 2015

A top state child-protection official who reportedly had an “frat house”-management style, disparaging and berating underlings and referring to some as “ho’s,” has quit his job. David Abramowitz was director of the Northeast Florida region for the Department of Children and Families. He turned in his resignation Wednesday, as first reported by First Coast News. DCF Press Secretary Michelle Glady […]

Guest AuthorOctober 5, 2014

The state’s Department of Children and Families Northeast Region, which was responsible for the safety of the six children massacred by their grandfather in the rural town of Bell, drastically needs new leadership. That’s obvious reading recent reports in the Miami Herald about the 18 complaints investigators received about Don Spirit, his troubled daughter and […]

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