Troubled Child Protective Services Under the Legislative Microscope Today

Troubled Child Protective Services Under the Legislative Microscope Today | News Radio 1200 WOAI:

A Legislative Committee today will look into what sorts of reforms are needed in the state's troubled Child Protective Services, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.

Foster father's rape charges mark rare exception, advocate says

Foster father's rape charges mark rare exception, advocate says | Local News - KMBC Home:

EDGERTON, Kan. —The foster care system is reeling after a Johnson County foster father is charged with sex crimes against children in his care.

N.H. House Backs Bill Making Untreated Opioid Dependence a Trigger For State to Intervene

N.H. House Backs Bill Making Untreated Opioid Dependence a Trigger For State to Intervene | New Hampshire Public Radio:
The New Hampshire House Wednesday backed a measure that would allow the state Division of Children, Youth and Families to investigate parents suspected of having an opioid dependence. As written, the bill would exempt parents currently involved in treatment or actively seeking treatment. 

My Comment:  "As written, the bill would exempt parents currently involved in treatment or actively seeking treatment." Oddly enough, there are parent's in NH with open DCYF cases due to substance abuse who ARE in treatment. Other's have lost their children because they were in treatment and were ILLEGALLY Court ordered out of it in order to regain custody. Parent's ordered into Medical Detox which was non-existent in NH, making compliance an impossible task. Here is the piece of the Child Protection Act that has been used against parent's who neither neglected or abused their children and I'm quite sure will be used again and again because our Government let's DCYF get away with it:

2 Child Protection Act; Definition of a Neglected Child. Amend RSA 169-C:3, XIX(b) to read as follows:
(b) Who is without proper parental care or control, subsistence, education as required by law, or other care or control necessary for his or her physical, mental, or emotional health, when it is established that his or her health has suffered or is very likely to suffer serious impairment; and the deprivation is not due primarily to the lack of financial means of the parents, guardian, or custodian. I wonder how much money all those "Taken" children brought in to the State, not to mention how much more will be paid by the federal Govt. once this Bill passes.

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.

Reviews find several CPS workers falsified case reports

Reviews find several CPS workers falsified case reports | www.statesman.com:

DALLAS — State investigators have found at least a dozen Child Protective Services workers were accused in 2015 of falsifying parts of their case records to look as if they checked on endangered children.

Travis County Child Protective Services Scrutinized Following Resignations In Dallas

Travis County Child Protective Services Scrutinized... | Patch:

The exits are fallout from intensified media scrutiny that now has Travis County in its sights for further examination.

AUSTIN, TX -- The fallout continues at Child Protective Services amid intense media scrutiny of its practices, with the resignations of two more top leaders at the agency tasked with protecting the state's children from abuse.

Five leave Texas child protection agency in rare regime change

Five leave Texas child protection agency in rare regime change | www.mystatesman.com:

The departures come amid ongoing changes in the department’s top leadership.