Illinois Agency Fails to Release Child Death and Injury Reports

SPRINGFIELD – The state agency responsible for keeping Illinois’ most vulnerable children safe has failed to produce legally required public reports of child deaths and thousands of serious injuries. According to the Illinois Answers Project, more than 1,200 deaths and more than 3,000 cases of serious injury have met the criteria for incident-specific reports from DCFS since July 2018. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, who sponsored legislation requiring the reports when he was a state lawmaker in the 1990s, is calling the failure “reckless.”