More on the Cuban custody case

The case in Miami I posted below has a wrinkle I noticed in another new account. It seems that DCF is in for a pound in this one. I'm not exactly sure if "spearheading" means actually leading the in-court legal efforts of DCF, but if so, that would be unusual for the Department's Chief of Staff stationed in Tallahassee:

Jason Dimitris, the Department of Children & Families' chief of staff, who is spearheading the state's case against the father, gave Cohen a copy of the e-mail, calling it ''very disturbing to us.'' The DCF is seeking to prove the birth father is unfit to raise the girl.

[Ed: if DCF is seeking to prove the birth father unfit, they should have done so and allowed the father the chance to be heard in February of 2006, not August of 2007, after a child bonds with a foster family]

UPDATE: Another, older article seems to confirm that the DCF Chief of Staff is, indeed, sitting in the counsel's chair in the proceedings:

In a juvenile court hearing last month, DCF chief of staff Jason Dimitris, an attorney who is spearheading the state's effort, announced that the DCF would introduce the father's consent as evidence of abandonment. The girl's mother and father were not married.