{"id":44243,"date":"2026-08-13T16:18:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=44243"},"modified":"2026-08-13T16:18:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:18:58","slug":"dcfs-significant-miscommunication-within-the-agency-led-to-missed-court-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/44243-dcfs-significant-miscommunication-within-the-agency-led-to-missed-court-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"DCFS: &#8216;Significant Miscommunication&#8217; Within the Agency Led to Missed Court Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>(MACKENZI FELMLEE)<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Governor says he\u2019s been assured agency leaders will attend next court date as Capitol News Illinois seeks public records<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By JERRY NOWICKI <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"mailto:jnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">jnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Article Summary\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Department of Children and Family Services missed two court dates and failed to respond to a public records lawsuit brought by Capitol News Illinois.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The agency blamed miscommunication within the department for its failure to appear and said a fuller explanation will come at the next court hearing.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gov. JB Pritzker says he\u2019s been assured that leadership will attend the Sept. 9 hearing in Sangamon County.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CNI requested the documents while trying to learn more about the care of Mackenzi Felmlee, 18, received before she was found dead in her foster home in May 2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPRINGFIELD \u2014 The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services blamed \u201csignificant miscommunication within the Department\u201d for missing two court dates and its failure to respond to a lawsuit filed by Capitol News Illinois seeking the release of public records.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gov. JB Pritzker told CNI on Wednesday he\u2019s received assurances that the agency won\u2019t miss a third upcoming court date on Sept. 9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEither through the notification process or some mix-up, they did not know about the court date,\u201d Pritzker said. \u201cAnd, so, they absolutely want to show up. It&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re avoiding it. We&#8217;ve got a great director there who is trying to do the right things.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois sued the agency in March after it declined to release personnel files of two caseworkers and one supervisor who were responsible for monitoring <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/caseworker-for-foster-child-who-later-died-had-troubling-history-documents-show\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mackenzi Felmlee<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a teenage girl who died while in foster care.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lawsuit filed by Springfield attorney Don Craven in Sangamon County court alleged DCFS violated the Illinois Freedom of Information Act and asked a judge to compel DCFS to produce the records.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Craven\u2019s office served DCFS with a summons on March 23, which was accepted by an office associate at the department\u2019s main office in downtown Springfield. But DCFS did not respond to that lawsuit, leading CNI to file a motion for default judgment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On June 10, Judge Jack Davis II issued an order finding DCFS \u201cwillfully and intentionally violated\u201d FOIA when it failed to release the requested information. He ordered DCFS to produce the records within five days and to pay CNI\u2019s costs, attorney fees and a $5,000 civil penalty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Second hearing missed<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the department missed that hearing, CNI filed another motion asking the court to order DCFS and its director, Heidi Mueller, to appear personally and explain the agency\u2019s failure to comply. Craven&#8217;s office issued a notice of hearing on that motion and again caused the notice to be personally served on the department. An office coordinator was served with that document, but DCFS failed to appear at the Aug. 11 hearing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judge Davis ordered Mueller and the agency to appear on Sept. 9 and threatened to begin assessing daily fines to the agency for its continued noncompliance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At two separate media appearances this week, Pritzker said he believes DCFS will appear at the next hearing. Neither the governor nor the agency spoke to the nature of the miscommunication.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI&#8217;m certain that if the communication process is improved, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re looking to do, to make sure that they know when the court hearing is, they will show up,\u201d Pritzker said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A spokesperson for DCFS said a fuller explanation will be given in court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBecause this is in active litigation, DCFS will work with counsel to resolve the issues in the court,\u201d spokesperson Heather Tarczan said. \u201cUnfortunately, there was significant miscommunication within the Department regarding this matter. The Department will explain the situation in detail to the court. The Department did not and would never intentionally disregard the directions of a court or miss a court appearance. The Department is committed to working toward a favorable outcome for all parties as soon as possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Mackenzi Flemlee\u2019s care<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CNI requested the documents while trying to learn more about the care Felmlee, 18, received before she was found dead in her foster home in May 2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to doctors, she died from a blood clot that hit her lungs. She was found struggling to breathe at the bottom of the basement stairs in a Fairview Heights foster home. Her neck, shoulders, legs and face were bruised, and her dehydrated body weighed just 90 pounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her foster mother, Shemeka Williams, and foster grandmother, Cornelia Reid, are charged with murder in connection with Mackenzi\u2019s death. Both are being held in the St. Clair County Jail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Williams was licensed through Lutheran Children and Family Services, a nonprofit agency that provides foster care services on contract with DCFS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/dcfs-timeline-in-foster-childs-death-reveals-10-caseworkers-but-no-credible-findings-of-abuse\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">timeline<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the incident released by DCFS, Williams purportedly told an LCFS caseworker during an in-person visit that Mackenzi was \u201cstruggling\u201d two days before her death.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The caseworker, however, did not document that conversation until five days after Mackenzi\u2019s death. LCFS later reported the visit was made by phone, not in person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide. It is funded primarily by the Illinois Press Foundation and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MACKENZI FELMLEE) Governor says he\u2019s been assured agency leaders will attend next court date as Capitol News Illinois seeks public records By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois jnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com Article Summary\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DCFS: &#039;Significant Miscommunication&#039; 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