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Article: Background checks anger foster parents Conn. agency reviewing policy after screening called excessive
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 6, 1998
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DERBY, Conn. -- Cynthia Lawrence has been a foster mother to more
than 35 children during the past seven years and is outraged by cases
of neglect and abuse in foster homes that have resulted in the deaths
of several children.
But she and other foster parents across Connecticut say they are
also outraged that the state is insisting they sign a waiver to allow
the State Police to conduct intensive background checks on them --
making them feel like scapegoats.
Those checks would include interviews with neighbors and former
employers, disclosure of traffic violations, and all financial
records including credit histories, and even examinations of high
school transcripts.
After 6-year-old David ...