Florida DCF doesnt seem to monitor anything

Two news stories (and personal experience) have brought me to this conclusion. First, an investigation I am re posting by the Tampa Bay Times regarding the complete lack of licensing requirements or monitoring of Children's homes in Florida by DCF. Basically if your group home doesnt want to follow the rules set out to protect the kids in your care, you can claim religious exemption and make up your own rules(including corporal punishment) and DCF will still send you kids and $$. The second is a recent story in the Palm Beach Post where DCF admits its doesn't monitor nor does it have any idea the amount of anti-psych drugs jails and similar institutions use on kids in care. (Though the paper estimated the jails bough enough for nearly 500 pills a day per kid) The concern being that institutions are using pills not for psychological needs but as a chemical restraint/shackles. Much easier to control kids if they are all doped up regardless of whether they are actually in need of the medication. And any doctor who claims he knows what these drugs do to growing brain is flat out lying. But acoording to the story the Drug Companies give these therapists 5 figure bonuses to promote the medications regardless of the lack of science.

So basically, if your a foster kid placed in a group home you can be physically abused for the first half of the day and forced into a drugged up coma for the second half, and there would be nothing "practice wise" wrong with that because DCF isnt paying any attention and has no authority beyond placement. And no one from the public would be any wise because of privacy/hipaa shelter the company from public/family scrutiny and accountability.