First Black woman chief of staff at DCFSDumasMitchell, Annah
"You can see some of these findings are on repeat dating back more than 25 years," Cook County Chief Deputy Public Guardian Alpa Patel said last week. The department's misfires include waiting days and weeks and months to notify authorities - from prosecutors to school districts - when calam...
"It would be an 'F' most definitely. It's disappointing at every indicator that's assessed at this point," said Alpha Patel, Cook County Chief Deputy Public Guardian. And it gets worse. Huge chunks of the state's most vulnerable kids are missing physicals, vision tests, hearing scr...
"One thing is that they have affirmatively put out there that they're not going to be using shackles or mechanical restraints," said Alpa Patel, Chief Deputy for the Cook County Public Guardian's Office. But Cross has his doubts. "They're just talking. They're just talking," he said. ...