A former state children’s advocate who angered her bosses with her forceful style on behalf of abused children and foster parents is facing the loss of custody of her own adopted son after a Tallahassee judge said her refusal to allow him back into her home without adequate support amounted to abandonment. At the conclusion […]
As the state’s long-time child welfare ombudsman, it was Heather Cox Rosenberg’s job to fight for Florida’s foster children and their parents – an assignment her former employer accused her of sometimes doing too well. Leaders from the Department of Children and Families said she “disparaged the department” on social media, encouraged foster parents to […]