First of all, the Department of Children and Families can only do so much to fix the system as there are laws and restrictions for their actions. They, being a governmentally funded organization, must follow the rules and do not have much say on changing them. In Florida, these certain set of restrictions are called The Florida Statutes Chapter 39. These statutes are created and maintained by The Florida Senate annually, after a legislative lesson. According to the Florida Senate's web page, the Florida Statutes are "[a] permanent collection of state laws organized by area... updated annually by laws that create, amend, transfer, or repeal statutory material" (The Florida Senate). DCF has no control over the material within these statutes but
