Friday, January 23, 2009

DCF commissioner gets arrested

The commissioner of the state Department of Children and Families was charged with driving under the influence on I-91 Thursday. Any thoughts?

Note that she got pulled over at 6:45 p.m. on a week night.

Susan Hamilton, who was appointed to her commissioner's job a few years back, will actually appear in Superior Court in Meriden Feb. 6.

The commissioner before Hamilton was Kristine Ragaglia. Ragaglia told a federal grand jury in 2004 that she received many of the same gifts that were used to bribe others in former Gov. John G. Rowland's administration while she was commissioner.

Can DCF really help the children who need it when they have their own trouble to deal with? Have you had to deal with DCF before? What are your experiences?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Don't let one persons poor judgement take away the many good things that DCF does for so many families. The news only reports the negative things about DCF and this makes it very hard to work in the community. Why not look for the positive aspect of DCF and print that in a story. How many teachers, principals, doctors, pilots. trash haulers, reporter, etc. use poor judgement daily? When this happens do you ask how can anyone go to school, dr. office, put out the trash for collection or read the paper? WHY DON'T YOU CHECK YOUR OWN CLOSET and see what makes you all high and mighty.