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Friday, October 20, 2006
Law - Kentucky's state contract oversight laws criticized
Deborah Yetter of the Louisville Courier Journal writes today:
Citing Communities at Oakwood as the worst example, a state audit released yesterday found that Kentucky laws designed to regulate state contracts with private companies are virtually useless.Costs have soared under private contractors at the state's largest residential center for adults with mental retardation as problems worsened, including repeated findings of abuse and neglect, the audit found.
"Oakwood is just the biggest and the most publicized example of the fact that we have a very lax system of oversight and accountability when it comes to privatizing services," state Auditor Crit Luallen said in an interview.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 20, 2006 07:39 AM
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