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Committee hears bill to separate child-removal and reunification roles in CPS
Summary
Sen. Dennis Lenz presented Senate Bill 206 to require a separation between child protection investigators who remove children and child reunification specialists who work to return them; the department supported rural exemptions and said training overlaps for both roles.
Senator Dennis Lenz (Senate District 25) told the House Human Services Committee on March 17 that Senate Bill 206 would define and separate the roles of child protection investigators and child reunification specialists so the worker who removes a child would not be the same person working to reunify that child with the family.
The bill’s sponsor said the measure includes an amendment intended to address staffing realities in rural areas so the separation would not be required where it is not feasible. "I want to further…
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