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Public commenters urge council to address child-welfare concerns and local supports
Summary
During public comment residents raised allegations about child-welfare caseworker conduct and urged council to attend community events and support families; speakers also called attention to homelessness, illiteracy and housing issues.
Several members of the public used the meeting’s public-comment period Tuesday to press city leaders on social-service and child-welfare concerns and to invite council to community events.
Claire Connor, who identified herself as a Berryville resident but said she was speaking about a Winchester case, alleged that a well-known child-protective-services worker had been arrested in another jurisdiction and said she had previously been reprimanded for public comments. Connor described other families’…
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