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LINCOLN -- The Nebraska Foster Care Review Board will hold an emergency meeting Tuesday to decide how to respond to a federal agency's call for the dismissal of the board's longtime director, Carol Stitt.
The board's executive committee made that decision after meeting via telephone this morning.
When asked if dismissal of Stitt, who has led the review agency since 1983, will be on the table, the chairwoman of the Foster Care Review Board said she could not say now.
"I'm not ruling that out, but I'm not saying that's on our agenda," said Georgie Scurfield of Papillion.
On Monday, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel announced that it had filed a complaint seeking the firing of Stitt for alleged political campaigning while at work.
Stitt, in 2006, urged employees and foster families to attend a fund-raiser for then-gubernatorial candidate Tom Osborne. Stitt has said the invitation was so people could hear Osborne's view on reform of the foster care system, not to solicit contributions or support.
-- Paul Hammel
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