Help for child welfare agencies
Higgins, Candice Brooks. Hamilton Journal, Jan. 10, 2007, pg. A2.
A criminal records database that automatically notifies child welfare agencies when a listed foster parent is involved in a domestic violence incident could be on its way to the home county of 3-year-old Marcus Fiesel.
Butler County Clerk of Courts Cindy Carpenter plans to integrate county Common Pleas Court records by April into the Criminal Justice Information System, an Internet-based database of criminal justice records launched in September 2005 by the Montgomery County Clerk.
Butler County Children Services is interested in the system as one of several options to supplement background checks. "It's like a Google for criminal justice," said Jerome Cook, Butler County Clerk of Courts administrator.
Marcus Fiesel was an autistic foster child who died last August after police say his foster parents, Liz and David Carroll, left him bound in closet for weekend while they went to a family reunion in Williamstown, Ky.
A report of domestic violence at the Carroll's home in Clermont County was filed in June but foster child welfare authorities were unaware of it.
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