Today, I received notice from the Massachusetts Dept. of Children and Families that an (Un)fair hearing to overturn a false allegation of abuse against a man, was finally decided. . . . . nearly EIGHT years after he requested the hearing in 2008. Thankfully, it went in his favor.
The DCF regulations require them to make a decision within 45 days after the hearing, not twice 45 months. When I called the DCF to ask if they were going to discipline the hearing officer for such a terrible violation of this gentleman's rights, the hack spokesman saw no problem with that kind of service. Outrage!
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Debbie Gravel
4/17/2017 12:24:34 pm
My daughter's fair hearing response took a year and a half and when she got the letter it was back dated by six months. In fact everything we have received in the mail from them has always been back dated by months. 8 years is the longest I have ever heard of though. One thing for sure is that DCF stalls on everything. For example waiting 5 1/2 months to make referrals for services and then changing the permanency goal to adoption at 6 months because Mother has failed to make progress.
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3/16/2019 10:15:01 am
How do we contact this attorney. Jm a mom ready to literally break down. My 5 BEAUTIFUL babies were kidnapped 12/19/19, my 72 hour hearing took 8 days . Dad and I stared at a Christmas tree full of gifts 8 days including Christmas TOTALLY
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3/16/2019 11:33:46 am
Sorry above should read, basically the SW said me mom could return home because " we don't want dad to lose his career meanwhile weve tapped out between loss of income, using all savings and using all tax refunds about 35,000. Now ws are behind on rent,, no money left. So a ton of people rearrange schedules jump through hoops of fire and because i broke my phone and had to borrow dads old phone then responded to a group email from his email address the plans off the table and I cant do it anymore. Please Sir if they were your children now traumatized imagine the pain we feel.. I pray i heLP
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