FROM: Susan Goranson, Associate Analyst

RE: DCF Monitoring Panel

You asked who is the current court monitor of the Department of Children and Families (DCF), and how is he paid.

David J. Sullivan, Esquire is the current DCF court monitor. A three-person monitoring panel was originally required by the DCF consent decree entered in Juan F. v. O’Neil. The monitoring panel was replaced by the current single court monitor in 1992 as a result of the state filing a motion to modify the decree. The decree requires that the cost of the court monitor be paid by the state. It is paid by the Office of the Comptroller via a non-appropriated account known as the Account for Adjudicated Claims. Attached is a copy of the panel’s expenditures of $ 140,779. 24 for the period July 1, 1993 to September 30, 1993. Judge Zampano, Senior U. S. District Judge reviews and approves the anticipated expenditures and then submits an orders for payment to the state. The monitors have agreed to expend no more than $ 505,000 a year.

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