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Inside Children Services, Part 1
It’s been roughly a year since Michael Fox stepped down from the Butler County Commission to take over the ailing Children Services agency. This was after the tragic killing of 3-year-old Marcus Fiesel by his foster parents, and the agency was in well publicized turmoil.
Since then, Fox has made numerous changes, including increased screening for foster parents and lowered case worker caseloads. But the slim margin by which a replacement Children Services levy passed on the March ballot could speak to mixed feelings many still have about the agency.
And behind the scenes, there are debates about the future of the agency that the public doesn’t get a chance to see. Until now. I have scanned and posted below (ChildrenServices1) 65 pages of e-mails from Fox to former County Administrator Derek Conklin.
Some of it is minutae, some of it is hard to read, but much of it is earnest debate about what must be done to turn the agency around, and mention of the problems officials are facing now within the agency.
To those unfamiliar with public records law, the agency has deleted or redacting references to specific cases, and other protected information. But the rest, I think, is a fascinating glimpse inside Children Services.
And this isn’t all. Log on tomorrow for the second of three installments.
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