DCFS v. I.C.

Nos. 99-206, 99-372.

742 So.2d 401 (1999)

THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, Appellant, v. I.C., a minor child, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

September 1, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Charles M. Fahlbusch, Assistant Attorney General, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Michael J. Dale, David S. Bazerman of Nova Civil Clinic, and Howard Talenfeld of Colodny, Fass & Talenfeld, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.

Nancy W. Gregoire of Bunnell, Woulfe, Kirschbaum, Keller, Cohen & McIntyre, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for the Honorable Ginger Lerner-Wren.


WARNER, C.J.

During a statutory review of a juvenile dependency case, the trial judge discovered that this juvenile as well as unknown others with disabilities who had been rejected from numerous placements were being brought to the first floor of the Department of Children & Family Services ("DCF") "assessment center" in Broward County for the afternoon, where care (of sorts) is provided when no other place is available to the children. Many of the children stay...

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