Proposed Oklahoma DHS budget increase could include some costs to satisfy settlement, director says

 
BY MICHAEL MCNUTT mmcnutt@opubco.com
Published: February 9, 2012

A nearly $200 million requested increase in state funds for DHS could include some improvements likely to be part of a plan to satisfy a federal class- action lawsuit that accused the department of physically and psychologically damaging children in its foster homes and state shelters, the agency's outgoing director said Wednesday.

But Howard Hendrick , who is retiring Feb. 29 as director of the Department of Hu...


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