There are kids the Department of Child Safety doesn't want, and the agency is working with an influential lawmaker to curb the number of those children entering the foster-care system.
DCS Director Greg McKay has been complaining for months that judges are foisting onto his department children with juvenile delinquency issues. These children, he's argued in correspondence with court and probation officials, are too dangerous to share a foster or group home with kids who have been removed from their homes due to neglect or abuse.
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