Springfield News
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NOV 22, 2019
A months-long review of the Department of Children and Family Services’ child abuse and neglect hotline concluded what both the agency and mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect have known for years: the hotline needs far more employees in order to quickly answer every call.
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Cook County’s Public Guardian is urging a federal judge to accelerate a lawsuit that challenges the Department of Children and Family Services practice of allowing foster children to languish in psychiatric hospitals beyond medical need if the agency can’t find a place for a child, saying the situation has gotten worse.
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The Illinois Senate Democrats and Illinois House Republicans on Tuesday each named two members to serve on a commission charged with studying the ways in which Illinois can strengthen its ethics laws for both legislators and lobbyists created by a resolution passed during the waning hours of the legislature’s fall Veto Session last week.
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State Rep. Sara Feigenholtz (D-Chicago)
In the waning hours of the legislature’s fall Veto Session Thursday evening, lawmakers voted on a gaming bill — but not the one requested by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot that would have lowered the effective tax rate on a future Chicago casino.
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The Department of Children and Family Services will develop new guidelines for the use of “soft restraints” while contractors shuttle youth in care from one location to another, after media reports earlier this month revealed some foster children had been shackled and handcuffed on long drives.
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Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) will retire from the Senate in January after four decades in the General Assembly, the Democrat announced Thursday evening, telling members of the Senate Democratic caucus after the chamber adjourned the last day of the legislature’s fall Veto Session.
Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) fields questions from reporters. [Hannah Meisel/The Daily Line]
