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by Marie Cohen This post was originally published on ChildWelfare Monitor DC on December 9, 2024. Because I rarely post on that site, I am letting it expire and will include future DC-focused posts on ChildWelfare Monitor.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a scathing rebuke to Philadelphia’s family police agency, the Department of HumanServices, rejecting the idea that its caseworkers are effectively exempt from the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and a similar clause in Pennsylvania’s constitution. Lawyers would scream.
Maine's first childwelfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which childwelfare court hearings are open.
Twenty years ago, Penn Law Professor (and NCCPR Board Member) Dorothy Roberts changed the landscape of “childwelfare” when she literally wrote the book on racial bias in family policing: Shattered Bonds: The Color of ChildWelfare. Roberts’ interview with Boston Review. Check out Prof.
“I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the childwelfare system. “To Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast.
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This side of the childwelfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. Department of Health and HumanServices. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. But there are few consequences for wrongly removing children from their homes.
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Department of HumanServices, went to great lengths to spin the results and direct readers toward the spin instead of the reviews themselves. Identifying and proactively targeting services to families with no [childwelfareservices] involvement is a violation of families’ privacy and their rights to parent as they see fit.
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