A legal reform advocate who played a key role in crafting a bill on child custody filed in the Florida Legislature responds ...

Next-door neighbors lost their near-identical homes in a California wildfire, but how they are navigating rebuilding is a story of contrasting fortunes and unequal recovery, a stark reflection of the ...

The DeSantis administration on Tuesday unveiled a pregnancy website that officials said provides “additional wraparound ...

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen, the Colorado Democrat leading the charge in the House of Representatives to allow new parents ...

Despite the ruling, DCF has only paid the statutory cap of $200,000 as allowed under Florida law ... Advocacy groups and child welfare organizations have voiced support for HB 6511, urging lawmakers ...

The case was reported to the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) and on Jan. 15 ... "Sexual exploitation of any child by anyone, in every circumstance is horrific and unacceptable ...

According to the sheriff's office, the man had been messaging the teen for about a year before the investigation began.

According to the sheriff's office, the man had been messaging the teen for about a year before the investigation began.

He remains jailed on a $2 million bond. On Thursday, a DCF spokesperson released a summary to KSN confirming that a 4-year-old child died on Feb. 1: “The deceased child and her sister were in ...

overworked and ill-prepared to handle some of the most difficult social ills facing Florida. Not much has changed. For an agency that tries to fight ill-treatment, DCF can't seem to shake its own ...