Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Michigan Child Fatality Task Force Report

Michigan has a strong history of not answering public questions, ignoring FOIAs and taking task force reports such as this and burying them deep, in the underground vaults of an obscure departmental division, locked in a coded pdf format.

I have asked the Auditor General why state reports are locked.  Response was to "preserve the presentation of the information."

Federal government does not lock their pdf's.

Technology has advanced further than Michigan's mentality of public operations being a secret, especially in child welfare.

I have argued for years that the national statistics on children in the foster care system are horrifically distorted and fundamentally flawed.  This is why:

Michigan Child Fatality Reviews

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