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    Sheriff Dawsy, Sen. Dean at odds over child protective servi

    From CFNews13.com

    INVERNESS --

    Citrus County Sheriff Jeff Dawsy is on a mission and he has a blunt reason for it.

    "This action that the state is taking right now endangers your kids.”

    Sheriff Dawsy is making a push in Tallahassee to restore a contract with the Citrus Co. Sheriff's Office and the Florida Dept. of Children and Families to retain control of child protection services in Citrus County.

    The sheriff's office has had the contract since 2007, but it was cancelled this last legislative session.

    “Remember, this was a budgetary item, not a personal issue," Former Citrus County Sheriff and current State Sen. Charlie Dean said.

    Sen. Dean supported cancelling the contract as a way to balance the budget.

    Sheriff Dawsy said he believes if Sen. Dean will change his mind, the funding will return to his department. He said he doesn’t believe it’s about the money.

    In fact, he believes his agency can provide more for the money than the state can.

    In paperwork provided by the sheriff, the agency was rated in the top three percent by state evaluators and has the highest ratio of seeing children in the first 24 hours after a complaint.

    “It’s all about the kids," Sheriff Dawsy said. "It has nothing to do whether or not some legislator doesn’t like me or if he does like me. This is a good business practice.”

    “Every child is going to be protected," Sen. Dean said. "Every child is going to be looked into. That’s our responsibility.”

    Sheriff Dawsy believes it matters who is looking after the kids in the county.

    Dean said it was a choice between funding the contract with the sheriff's office or a mental hospital in Baker County.

    Having DCF handle child protection services isn't unheard of. Six other counties in Florida already have the system in place.

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    Dcf already has way too many illegal ways to harm children making them apart of the SO gives them more. Jason Fox of citrus countydcf allowed two children to suffer even more abuse when the mother whom had fresh needle marks and sores from older marks failed drug test for Crystal meth,oxycodone,methadone, and cocaine didnot remove her children. He made the statement 'I know where my children belong' when asked by his superior to his reason for leaving children with her only to have mother wind up in hospital two weeks after for complications from drug use and use of needles testing positive for hepatitis still when mother was released fromhospital her children were not removed. Then a year later children were FINALLY REMOVED after police busted a meth house. Jason Fox yet years prior removed a child from another mother that was prescribed oxycodone for cancer relatedpain simply for testing positive with the drug she was prescribed then placed that child in harm's way. All while stacia harnish was was left to abuse her children

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