WARREN

WARREN

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has sent the Trumbull County Children Services agency the go-ahead to implement a visitation-policy action plan Children Services wrote in December.

A letter dated Friday from Jennifer Justice, acting deputy director of the JFS Office of Families and Children, said Ohio JFS reviewed the plan and determined that it “should promote agency compliance” with state guidelines.

In November, Ohio JFS asked Trumbull Children Services to submit an action plan to address issues that arose as a result of the alleged rape of a 9-month-old child in Children Services custody.

The child’s biological parents are accused of committing the acts while visiting the girl at the Children Services offices on Reeves Road.

One of the problems Ohio JFS found was that employees had not kept records up to date in a statewide database.

The action plan calls for the information to be logged into the system “within 24 hours, preferably, but no later than 14 calendar days.”