The Department of Developmental Services paid over $1.5 million over the course of two years for a child who had moved to Massachusetts, according to a new audit of the department. “The department paid approximately…
Connecticut is undercutting private, nonprofit organizations that serve Connecticut’s neediest citizens through a lack of funding, competition for employees and the state’s rising minimum wage. That’s according to nonprofit leaders, workers and clients who came…
State spending on overtime increased slightly over last year for the second quarter, according to a release from the Office of Fiscal Analysis, although some state agencies showed progress in reducing the number overtime hours…
One of the state’s residential facilities for the intellectually impaired was staffed using mandatory overtime 93 percent of the time even though Medicaid would fund half the cost of hiring more staff, according to a…
A state employee with the Department of Developmental Services was placed on paid administrative leave for 69 weeks pending an investigation and collected $81,500 during that time, according to a report from state auditors. Although…
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Ellis K. Hagstrom was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2014 for the repeated rape and sexual abuse of two disabled women he was supposed to care for while working for the Department Developmental…
[caption id="attachment_3727" align="alignright" width="300"] Image Copyright John Kwan, 2013. Used under license from Shutterstock.com[/caption] Connecticut spent $119 million on state employee overtime during the first six months of fiscal year 2016, but that number does…
