COUNTY OFFICIALS ADMIT FOSTER KIDS WEB SITE A FAILURE ONE CHILD FOUND - AFTER A ROBBERY.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer Nearly two months after launching a Web site with the names and pictures of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County's nearly 1,000 missing foster children, officials said Tuesday the Web site had not helped locate any of them. Supervisor Gloria Molina Gloria Molina is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the current chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.[1] Molina grew up as one of ten children in the Los Angeles suburb of Pico Rivera, California, U.S. said she was aware of only one missing girl who had been located after she was arrested on suspicion of robbing a liquor store. ``I'm troubled that so many children are missing and the one we found recently was only after she was arrested for robbing a liquor store,'' Molina said. The girl was recently moved out of the now-closed MacLaren Children's Center in El Monte El Monte (ĕl mŏn`tē), city (1990 pop. 106,209), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1912. A residential, industrial, and commercial city in the San Gabriel Valley, El Monte manufactures furniture, electronic equipment, semiconductors, to a new foster home. She is now being housed at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey. Department of Children and Family Services Deputy Director John Oppenheim said he was unaware of anyone locating a missing foster child since the Web site was posted in late January at www.missingkidsla.org. ``I have no information that any child was found directly as a result of the Web site,'' Oppenheim said. As of Nov. 30, a DCFS DCFS Department of Children and Family Services DCFS Division of Children and Family Services DCFS Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems (conference) DCFS Data Communication & Functional System report found 772 children were classified as runaways and 218 as having been abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point from foster care. The supervisors said they were concerned that the county's main Web site did not have a link to the missing foster child Web site and the only way to gain access was through the DCFS Web page. ``I think this is a direct result of the Web site not being efficient,'' said Raine Ritchey, children's deputy to Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San . ``Only one-fourth of the missing children have pictures on the Web site.'' Oppenheim said DCFS was moving forward with plans to have all foster children receive California identification cards so DCFS will have their pictures to post on the Web site if they become missing. Meanwhile, county officials announced Tuesday the launch of a new Emancipation Program Web site - www.ilponline.org - dedicated to providing information to help youths who turn 18 and leave foster care to find a home, get a job or an education. Given that 1,200 foster children are emancipated e·man·ci·pate tr.v. e·man·ci·pat·ed, e·man·ci·pat·ing, e·man·ci·pates 1. To free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate. 2. each year, the supervisors directed county officials to seek private donations to pay for the $720,000 annual cost of providing $1,200 laptop computers to the youths so they can connect to the Web site. |
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