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Paula Mackin, director of the Juvenile Law Project, said her organization had filed the class action suit because some DSS workers were grossly overburdened, having to handle more than 30 cases simultaneously. The new limits would keep that...
...DSS was created in July 1980 to replace the Department of Public Welfare (DPW), which had a history of foster care negligence Michael Ripple director of communications at the DSS, said the department inherited many of DPW's problems and has been successfully struggling to overcome them...
...statement issued after the ruling, DSS commissioner Mary Jane England said. "My first impression is that the federal court order is largely consistent with the staffing patterns which this agency has designed and implemented, with the regulations and policies of the agency, and the agency's mission...
Mackin however, said DSS officials were uncooperative during the trial and had "vigorously fought" the plaintiff's suit...
...addition, Macking said England and other DSS officials altered documents that were used as evidence...