Starting in October, social workers investigating possible child abuse or neglect for the state Department of Children and Families will have to give parents a written notice of their rights, roughly comparable to the famous Miranda warnings that police give to crime suspects.

“Even sophisticated people believe they must speak to DCF,” said Ellington lawyer Michael H. Agranoff, whose office drafted the new law and advocated it for a decade.

Agranoff, who specializes in representing adults in DCF-related cases, calls the new law the “DCF mini-Miranda” and “the Magna Carta of parents’ rights in Connecticut.”

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Here's his EXCELLENT website- The Law Offices of Michael H. Agranoff

Here is the bill in original PDF format which I have converted into HTML format so you can copy and paste it into documents.

Raised Bill No. 5143
An Act Concerning Investigations By The Department Of Children And Families

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