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Auditor General Finds Gaps In DCFS Reporting On Runaways

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A state audit finds an Illinois agency could do more to track runaways.
 

The Illinois Auditor General finds the Department of Children and Family Services did not report the number of wards missing in a given year.

According to the report, the agency used daily lists of missing wards which showed about 230 wards were missing each day.

The report finds the missing wards were not all runaways, but included children whose caregivers did not know their whereabouts.

Jenna Dooley has spent her professional career in public radio. She is a graduate of Northern Illinois University and the Public Affairs Reporting Program at the University of Illinois - Springfield. She returned to Northern Public Radio in DeKalb after several years hosting Morning Edition at WUIS-FM in Springfield. She is a former "Newsfinder of the Year" from the Illinois Associated Press and recipient of NIU's Donald R. Grubb Journalism Alumni Award. She is an active member of the Illinois News Broadcasters Association and an adjunct instructor at NIU.