Category Archives: Orlando Sentinel

Orlando Sentinel Editorial Doping up our children The state’s Department of Children and Families is under fire again, and rightly so. Recently, a task force issued its final report documenting how weak oversight and lax compliance with guidelines fostered a … Continue reading →

Orlando Sentinel The Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE – A Florida task force has issued its final report on the suicide of a 7-year-old boy who hung himself in a Margate foster home, determining proper procedures existed to prevent such problems … Continue reading →

Orlando Sentinel By Jon Burstein and Kate Santich | Staff Writers Almost one of every six foster children on mood-altering drugs in Florida is being medicated without the court order or parental consent required by law, according to a study … Continue reading →