Child Protective Services

The Crimes Against Children Conference is bringing together more than 5,000 people who work with child abuse victims.

"We Were Once a Family," Roxanna Asgarian's expose of Texas' adoption system, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best work of non-fiction.

The letter from nine members of the state's congressional delegation comes as the state fights a nearly 13-year-old federal class action suit over alleged failures to ensure the wellbeing of children in foster care.

State documents show Texas paid $260 million over three years to keep kids in hotels and leased homes temporarily. Unregulated placements that advocates say warehouse youth with the most needs in the most dangerous way.

Both sides finished their arguments Wednesday after days of testimony over accusations that Texas agencies don't protect foster children.

The Texas Department of Family Protective Services confirmed DeSoto parents Temecia and Rodney Jackson regained custody of their newborn daughter Mila.

Temecia and Rodney Jackson say their newborn daughter Mila was wrongfully taken into Child Protective Services custody days after she was born. Local reproductive rights activists are demanding Mila's return.

Dallas couple Rodney and Temecia Jackson claim CPS workers removed their baby late last month.

Texas’ foster system has dropped hundreds of runaway kids from its care over the past five years. 170 of those kids were minors when the state stopped its relationship. One legislator says the state is 'washing its hands' of the most vulnerable youth — youth who often end up being sexually abused or trafficked while missing.

After a murder-suicide in 2018, a reporter spent years investigating Texas’ troubled foster care system. Too often, it prioritized terminating parental rights over keeping birth families intact.

The Refuge's license was suspended last year when it was discovered an employee had offered to sell nude photos of two girls in exchange for drug money. The nonprofit sex-trafficking treatment center reached a settlement with the state that allowed it to reopen.

Multiple football players were hospitalized after a pushup workout led by Rockwall-Heath High School's head coach John Harrell, who is now on leave. Some parents and students want him back.