Members of the "Silent No More Against Maine DHHS" Facebook group protest in Augusta

Members of a newly-formed Facebook group were at the State House Wednesday protesting the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.

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In an effort to skirt it's own responsibility, DHHS reviews child abuse cases it contracted out

Maine’s child welfare program is revisiting six-and-a-half months of child abuse reports it received and referred to contractors who intervene in “lower-risk” abuse and neglect cases.

The Office of Child and Family Services earlier this month asked the four contractors who handle those lower-risk cases to comb through their records dating back to last Aug. 31 and re-report to the state many of the families whose cases they were assigned. The state would then review those cases.

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