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A federal judge has taken the Texas’ foster care system to task for 13 years. Reforms have been made. Now armed with private legal fire power, the state wants the judge off the case.
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After 13 years, the state said Judge Janis Jack should be removed from overseeing its foster care system because she isn't 'impartial.'
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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.
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Both sides finished their arguments Wednesday after days of testimony over accusations that Texas agencies don't protect foster children.
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A hearing in Bexar County around a child in state's foster care program raised questions about how the system is run and what damage a lack of placements has on youth.
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An email from a former foster care official claims his colleagues are collecting big hotel rewards for booking youth in their care.
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Advocates say better accounting of deaf and hard-of-hearing children in the state’s care and better access to translators is needed.
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The Texas Department of Family Protective Services confirmed DeSoto parents Temecia and Rodney Jackson regained custody of their newborn daughter Mila.
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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.
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Dallas couple Rodney and Temecia Jackson claim CPS workers removed their baby late last month.
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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.
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Stephanie Muth, the new commissioner of the Department of Family and Protective Services, was given a warm welcome and a laundry list of fixes from a federal judge Friday.