Florida Department of Children & Families trying to hide something?

As reported in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune

A watchdog group created by the Florida Legislature to help disabled and vulnerable Floridians claims that the state Department of Children & Families is retaliating for its report on drugged foster children. The Statewide Advocacy Council issued an analysis of DCF records this month indicating that more than half the state's emotionally disturbed foster children were prescribed mind-altering medication, and nearly half of them had no medical evaluation. Seventeen were 5 or younger.

After that analysis, the agency stopped sharing records with the panel for the first time in 28 years. DCF attorneys also have begun screening all calls to the council's toll-free complaint hot line.

"Someone is trying to hide the facts," said state Sen. Walter G. "Skip" Campbell, D-Tamarac, who has tried twice to curb the use of psychiatric drugs among children in state care. "They don't want us to know what is actually happening to kids in foster care."