IBM's new foretelling software to be used by Florida DOC

[DannyB II]

You truly can be diabolical sometimes. Where in hell's name did you come up with that conclusion? Classic Whooter twisting of a post to a completely different meaning.

Right here:

But... Florida would rather invest millions into the use of some software package, a business deal fattening certain corporations' coffers and certain individuals' wallets, than it would invest in its own working people.  Florida investing in its working people entails giving them a paycheck, and more, of course. How on earth you could twist that to mean the opposite is simply beyond my comprehension.

This creates jobs, gets people off of welfare, opens up entry level positions as well as White collar employment.  People who are employed pay taxes which helps to fuel government fiscal recovery.... etc.

Makes me wonder just how much of a paycheck you get to do your dirty business here.

It would be nice to get paid for doing this.  Do you get paid for writing on fornits?

Try training those case workers better. Try paying those case workers more. Try not saddling them with 50% higher caseloads than is specified in their job description. Try appreciating them more where it counts. Try doing something about a toxic work environment where burn-out runs rampant and cynicism sets in quickly. How about Florida invests in its people and not some computer program that is unlikely to make an appreciable difference in the long run anyway.

How do you know it is unlikely to make a difference?  Here is an interesting article on your state workers which may make a few people rethink the value of the software:
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During the past two years, more than 70 Florida child-welfare workers have been caught falsifying records -- lying about their on-the-job efforts to protect children, according to state and county records reviewed by the Orlando Sentinel.

As a consequence, the Florida Department of Children and Families temporarily lost track of at least six children, sometimes for months. Fourteen children were left in unsafe homes, the Sentinel found in a review of agency records.

Despite passage of a state law intended to punish cheaters, dishonest caseworkers remain a persistent problem in Florida's system to protect at-risk children:

•The day after a caseworker reported that she had inspected a foster home in Wildwood, police found its four foster children living in tents in the yard. The house had no running water, no food and no clean clothes.

•After a Hardee County social worker lied about making home visits, one child wound up living with an uncle awaiting trial on child-rape charges.

•Two children in Hernando County lived, for a time, with a grandfather who had been arrested two years earlier and accused of physically abusing his own child.




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Thank-You !!!!!!!!!!!!!!    ( WE ALL WANT CHILDREN SAFE AT ALL TIMES)

Danny