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Speakers told board that state child-protection hotline sometimes fails to route local concerns; members suggested inviting regional DCS director
Summary
Meeting attendees described instances when local calls about suspected child neglect were routed through a statewide call center and not acted on locally; they suggested inviting Tyler Dittner, regional director for DCS, to discuss responsiveness.
Several meeting participants described cases in which a local social worker called the state hotline about a child-safety concern and said the call was initially declined or routed through a statewide number rather than to local staff. One speaker said they made a second call and that a local caseworker was eventually dispatched.
Participants recommended inviting Tyler Dittner, identified in the meeting as the local office director (spelled out in the transcript as T-I-T-T-N-E-R / T-I-T-L-E-R — the transcript spelling varied), to a future meeting or Zoom session so he could hear local concerns about timeliness and routing of reports.
Speakers emphasized that the problem is not necessarily local staff but the statewide intake process, and they suggested that hearing directly from the regional DCS director could help address patterns of delayed response. No formal request or appointment was recorded; participants said they would try to invite the regional director to attend or to a Zoom meeting so stakeholders can describe specific incidents.
