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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018 Children: 10 days to complete reviews Continued from Page 1A “I believe that children slip through the cracks of our social justice system, to the benefit of the financial interests of the state,” Timothy Wood wrote on behalf of the estate of a McMinnville infant who died in 2016. It was once his job to help defend the Department of Human Services against such lawsuits, he wrote. Now retired, he works on behalf of surviving siblings. By law, the Department of Human Services must com- plete an initial fatality review within 70 days after state officials learn neglect or abuse likely contributed to the death of a child. If the team assigned to look into a death can’t finish its report on time, it must publicly disclose that it is reviewing the death and explain the delay. Review teams also must post updates or finalized reports every 30 days after that or explain why they need more time, state law says. The public summary reports refer to children who die only by their initials and leave out their hometowns and other ‘IT COULD HAVE SAVED HIS LIFE. IT MAY NOT HAVE, BUT IT COULD HAVE’ Brenda McKune | grandmother to Trevor Secord who wonders if her grandson would still be alive if child welfare workers investigated his near-death from alcohol poisoning at 14 New leader, less transparency (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 PM Q: Does the Oregon Health Plan cover chiropractic care? The Oregon ASTORIA A: Yes! Health Plan does cover CHIROPRACTIC Shining a light Fatality reviews are meant to help prevent deaths of vul- nerable Oregon children. The process, formally known as critical incident response teams, started after the 2005 death of Karly Shee- han, a 3-year-old from Corval- lis who child welfare workers left in a home where she was later killed. Lawmakers recog- nized the reviews as essential to saving more children like her. Department of Human Ser- vices staff members carry out the reviews. The teams can also include doctors, police, judges or lawmakers appointed by the agency’s director. As recently as April 2017, reports that the teams produced detailed every interaction the agency had with a child or other member of their household. The reports concluded what, if anything, went wrong at each point and outlined preventive steps for the future. In 2017, legislators gave the agency more time to complete the reviews. Officials now have 10 days, rather than 24 hours, to begin a review after they learn about a child’s death that likely was caused by abuse or neglect. Lawmakers also expanded the department’s scope of responsibility to publicly report child deaths. Until then, offi- cials did not have to review the deaths of children if a brother or sister, but not the child who died, had been the subject of a recent allegation of abuse. See CHILDREN, Page 4A WANTED Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber Northwest Hardwoods • Longview, WA Barry Sears, D.C. 503-325-3311 2935 Marine Drive Astoria, Oregon chiropractic care with referral from your primary care physician. Call us today for more information or to schedule your appointment. Now accepting new patients. Annual Q: The Enrollment period is almost over. Should I review my Part D Prescription plan with you at this time? 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A: Contact: John Anderson • 360-269-2500 W EDNESDAY E VENING L PROFESSIONAL SCHEDULE THE DAILY ASTORIAN A Consult a 10TH STREET Brown’s pick to lead the agency, Fariborz Pakseresht, has pledged since taking over in September 2017 to bring about change. But transparency in reporting the agency’s role in child deaths has lessened on his watch. Delaying release of fatal- ity reports can stymie wrong- ful death lawsuits brought on behalf of children killed after case workers knew they might be in peril. State law makes it extremely difficult to sue if families don’t file a claim within a year after the child’s death. But if they don’t know about mistakes by the state until after that year is up, any claim could be derailed. A former top civil attorney for the state wrote in a Nov. 16 court filing that large settle- ments both prompt lawmakers to press the agency for positive change and help pay for needed care for surviving siblings. identifying details. The Orego- nian independently determined which child’s death each of the reports discusses, including the one on Secord’s death. Five of the six reviews issued this year falsely indi- cate they were made public ear- lier than they were and at least two withhold the agency’s full case history with the families in question. The very small num- ber of public reports also raises questions about how many abuse deaths have gone unac- knowledged. The department, for example, has said nothing in the year since Payshience Adams was shot to death in her Douglas County foster home, nor has it acknowledged that it investigated allegations a Lane County teen was being abused just months before he died in April 2017. Department of Human Ser- vices officials declined to answer all but two questions — about the 70-day deadline and the inaccurate dates — for this story, saying they would treat the bulk of the detailed ques- tions provided to them Nov. 14 as a public records request. The Oregonian did not ask for any records when it sought explana- tions of department actions and inaction. “The tragedy of a child’s death is taken very seriously by the Department of Human Ser- vices,” spokeswoman Laura McGinnis said. ASTORIA TRANSIT CENTER But state officials omitted that determination, as well as specific details about their past investigations into Secord’s safety, from the report shown to the public. Brenda McKune wonders if her grandson would still be alive, a junior in high school pursuing his goal of profes- sional football or baseball, had child welfare workers investi- gated his near-death from alco- hol poisoning. “It could have saved his life,” she said. “It may not have, but it could have.” Child fatality reviews serve two purposes: They uncover systemic problems that need to be corrected and hold the Department of Human Services accountable for missteps that end in tragedy. The agency is highly secre- tive about the steps it takes to protect vulnerable children, in part to protect privacy. The fatality reports are one of the few, and perhaps most crucial, windows into an agency that has consistently failed to meet nearly every federal benchmark for child safety. Officials are required to carry out the reviews quickly so the problems they find can be fixed to save other children like Secord. The delayed, brief review of his death reflects a widespread pattern that has emerged over the past year and a half. Depart- ment of Human Services offi- cials have failed to meet legal deadlines to report child deaths and, when they finally have published them, excluded sig- nificant facts about most of the children’s lives. The state didn’t release a single fatality report for the first five months of this year. Since then, the department has made public just six summary reports. In five, the state con- cluded that the agency made no significant errors that contrib- uted to the death. In all but one, more than a year had passed since the child had died. Leaders of the Depart- ment of Human Services con- tend that changes to reporting requirements in 2017 give the agency an indefinite amount of time to make public the report of a child’s death, as long as they are conducting an inter- nal review. But state Sen. Sara Gelser, D-Corvallis, who lob- bied for the changes, said inter- preting the law that way vio- lates its spirit of transparency and its plain language. “Without publishing those, there is no way for the public to know the department is follow- ing the statute,” she said. The agency posted two of the six summary reports, including the one on Secord’s death, during the final two days of Oregon’s contentious race for governor, and one more since then. Gov. Kate Brown drew criticism from her Repub- lican challenger, state Rep. Knute Buehler, for failing to improve Oregon’s child wel- fare system. The governor’s office said it did not ask the child wel- fare agency to delay reports highlighting the department’s involvement in children’s deaths. Case after case of children dying or being left in foster homes where they were starved or abused made child welfare a central issue in the election. Turnover among case work- ers is high. The department completed just 11 percent of its child welfare investigations on time this summer, far short of the federal standard of 90 percent. Evening listings WEDNESDAY N OVEMBER 28 A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 Jeopardy! (N) KATU News at 6 (N) Wheel Fortune (N) The Goldbergs (N) Am.Housewife (N) Modern Family (N) Single Parents (N) Million Little Thing "Fight or Flight" (N) News (N) (:35) Jimmy Kimmel KOMO 4 News (N) Wheel Fortune (N) Jeopardy! 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