Re[2]: Child Protection Investigation reform

[Terry_Buckenmeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

     In Florida, domestic violence occurring homes where children reside is
     considered a form of child abuse/neglect - in terms of threatened
     harm. In the county in which I work, not one of those involved in the
     privatization project, we receive on a daily basis all police reports
     involving domestic violence calls. If we identify these families as
     having children, we commence a child protective investigation. We
     coordinate services with our local domestic violence program and the
     victims' advocates at the State Attorney's Office and the Sheriff's
     Office. In those cases requiring judicial intervention by the
     department, we try to coordinate case plan tasks and dispositional
     requirements with the requirements imposed in any companion criminal
     cases or ongoing probation. This procedure would probably not work in
     highly populated counties - due primarily to the number of police
     reports needing review.

     (I am also somewhat concerned about how few respondents there seem to
     be from Florida.)


Terry Buckenmeyer
Department of Children and Families
Child Protective Investigations
75 King St., Suite 330-D
St. Augustine, FL 32084
904-824-7348


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Subject: Re: Child Protection Investigation reform
Author:  CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu ("Anna K. Hagemeister"
<ahagemei@che1.che.umn.edu>) at INTERNET-MAIL
Date:    08-18-99 13:15




     As our research project is especially interested in the overlap
     between child maltreatment and domestic violence in families, such as
     transfer as the one noted here by Dr. Finkelhor has huge implications
     for families in which child maltreatment is perpetrated in families
     already involved in the criminal justice system.  It would allow
     access to information on all such police investigations to be shared
     more easily.

     Please post and/or send us what you find out about this if possible.

     Thanks,

     Anna Hagemeister, MA
     Research Assistant/Project Manager


     > Date:          Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:07:58 -0400
     > Reply-to:      CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu
     > From:          David Finkelhor <davidf@christa.unh.edu>
     > To:            Child Maltreatment Researchers
     <CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
     > Subject:       Child Protection Investigation reform
     > X-To:          Child Maltreatment Researchers
     <CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>

     > I believe I read that in Florida, legislation has given  (or was
     proposed
     > to give) responsibility for investigating child abuse to law
     enforcement.
     > Anyone have a reference on this?
     > David Finkelhor* Crimes against Children Research Center* Family
     > Research Laboratory* Department of Sociology* University of New
     > Hampshire* Durham, NH 03824*  Tel 603 862-2761* Fax 603 862-1122*
     email:
     > david.finkelhor@unh.edu
     >
     >
     Annelies Hagemeister, M.A.
     Research Assistant, School of Social Work
     Graduate Student, SSW and Family Social Science
     University of Minnesota
     St. Paul, MN  55108
     612-624-8796
     hage0044@tc.umn.edu

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