California courts step up oversight of psychotropic medication use in foster care

California courts step up oversight of psychotropic medication use in foster care - San Jose Mercury News:

SAN FRANCISCO -- California's judicial leaders on Friday took a major step toward reversing the foster care system's rampant use of psychiatric drugs, approving a slate of new safeguards to make juvenile courts here the country's most careful and inquisitive monitors of psychiatric care for abused and neglected children.