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Local teacher says social-services worker favored stranger adoption over family placement, alleges payment motivation
Summary
In public comment Martha Grice Haney, a long-time Union County teacher, alleged a Union County DSS social worker declined to place her grandson with family and suggested payments influenced that decision; she cited higher federal funding for out-of-home placements.
During the meeting’s public-comment period, Martha Grice Haney, a 35-year Union County resident and longtime schoolteacher, said Union County Department of Social Services staff refused to place her infant grandson with family and cited money as the reason.
Haney said she was told by a social worker, identified in her remarks as Jackie Grignon, that family placement…
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