Tampa Child Welfare Puts Too Many Kids in Foster Care Due to Media Fear, State Report Says

Responding to revelations by Tampa, Florida television station WFLA-TV, revelations that included foster children forced to spend their days, and sometimes nights, literally parked in cars in a convenience store parking lot, the head of the Florida Department of Children and Families, Mike Carroll, sprang into action! Just kidding — he did what buck-passing “leaders” always do in such situations: He named a committee to study the matter.

Specifically, he named a “peer review team.” As the name suggests, the group was made up of people who are or were themselves key players in running various aspects of child welfare — in other words, a group likely to identify less with the victims of the mess than the perpetrators.

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