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Timothy A Straus
Timothy A Straus
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Bar #369918(FL)     License for 41 years
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98-001609  DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES vs LOIS KELLY  (1998)
Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida Filed: Apr. 03, 1998
In a letter dated February 17, 1998, the Department of Children and Family Services(DCFS) notified Lois Kelly that DCFS intended to revoke her foster home license for five specified reasons. Later, during the course of pre-hearing discovery, DCFS narrowed the issues to three violations: A substitute care parent must not use corporal punishment of any kind. 65C-13.010(l)(b)5f, Florida Administrative Code (FAC). You have used corporal punishment to discipline the children in your care. More specifically, the children report that you routinely slapped them and hit them with a "switch." . . . The home and premises must be free from objects, materials, and conditions which constitute a danger to children. 65C-13.011(12)(b), FAC. The yard area was full of trash, the boys' room smelled of urine and there were roaches crawling around at the time the licensing representative visited the home. . . . A substitute care parent must not punish children for bed-wetting for errors during the toilet training process. 65C-13.010(l)(b)5i, FAC. Children in your care were punished by corporal punishment for bed-wetting. The issues in this proceeding are whether those violations occurred and if so, whether they constitute bases for license revocation.Foster parent persisted in using corporal punishment on children, despite training, and maintained conditions in the home that are hazardous to young children. Revocation of license was recommended.

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