L.A. County Children And Family Services Might Have Had Incentive To Withold Information About Child Abuse Deaths

L.A. County Children And Family Services Might Have Had Incentive To Withold Information About Child Abuse Deaths

An examination of how Los Angeles County officials have restricted information about the controversial, abuse-related deaths of children under the jurisdiction of the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) found on Monday that in many cases "there may be either conscious or unconscious incentives for child protective service officials to adopt a narrow" view of what documents need to be released under state law.