The Florida Department of Children & Families has a reputation of being either unable or unwilling to adequately address a myriad of social service problems. The latest incident involving a broken ...

Florida House Democrats in Tallahassee are demanding answers from the state Department of Children and Families over its role in handing over a foster child from Honduras to U.S. Immigration and ...

For more than a year, Florida’s Department of Children and Families has been telling 9 Investigates there are no problems with the state’s website for SNAP and Medicaid benefits. Channel 9 has now ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida's child welfare agency sent a letter to a Florida newspaper telling it to “cease and desist” its reporting on foster families for a story about a nonprofit associated with Gov.

An organization that advocates for people with disabilities filed a lawsuit this week alleging that the Florida Department of Children and Families has not gathered data and issued required reports ...

People needing assistance in Spanish from the Florida Department of Children and Families wait on hold for nearly an hour, according to a report from the Hispanic civil rights group UnidosUS. The wait ...

An advocacy group is suing the state of Florida for not releasing what it says is public information about how many times mentally ill people are involuntarily taken into custody. Disability Rights ...

Florida lawmakers now have filed close to $70 million worth of what are called "claim bills" for next year's legislative session to compensate families for alleged negligence by the state's child ...

Four members of a family were arrested last Friday on charges of aggravated child abuse after a harrowing investigation by the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) led to the removal of ...

THAN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE. NEW DETAILS TONIGHT IN THE INVESTIGATION INVOLVING AN OKEECHOBEE COUNTY BABYSITTER ACCUSED OF POISONING AN 11 MONTH OLD INFANT WITH ANTIFREEZE. WE’RE NOW LEARNING ANNA ADAMO ...

Thousands of Florida residents will receive their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments between 1 and 7 September. Distribution depends on a specific number combination in the ...