Lawmakers Aim to Lift Child Agency Regulation
FLORIDA
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Several state legislators are backing efforts by Florida’s child welfare agency to lift regulations preventing it from going public with about missing children.
The Department of Children & Families contends that existing law, intended to protect privacy, keeps it from seeking the public’s help when children run away or are abducted by relatives.
Many state representatives agree, and want to change the law on the grounds children’s welfare outweighs privacy considerations.
The agency has been under fire since April, when it was revealed that Rilya Wilson, then 5, had disappeared while in state custody. The Miami girl has been missing since January 2001.
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