Sunday, May 13, 2018

Settlement OK’d in decade-long lawsuit against DCYF

PROVIDENCE — In a small federal courtroom Wednesday, a decade-long lawsuit that compelled Rhode Island to improve its child welfare services officially ended with handshakes among lawyers.

“Let’s hope this goes well,” U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith said as he approved the settlement agreement between the state and Children’s Rights Inc., a New York-based advocacy group.

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