Failing Kalab / Chapter 5 - Dealing with the fall-out                

By Kate Braser, Libby Keeling           June 14, 2009

Amy Harfeld, Executive Director of   First Star speaks out in a recent article in the Evansvilles Courier & Press.

Below are excerpts from Failing Kalab / Chapter 5 - Dealing with the fall-out

"Openness and transparency better serve children, " said  Amy Harfeld...".

Both Harfeld and Avery said Indiana law gives juvenile court judges the authority to open or close proceedings.

"More often than not, when decisions are made to try to keep proceedings     a secret, the state is more interested   in protecting the identity of their  employees who may have erred than they are other children that may be     at  risk after a fatality like this,"   Harfeld said.

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