State and local officials are responding to the excessive arrests of children in California’s...
Foster Care
OP-ED: LA County Nixes Alarmingly Unreliable “Predictive Analytics” Foster Care Scheme—For Now
After Disturbingly High False Positive Rate, Head of LA County’s Office of Child Protection Urges...
LA Examines the Risky Business of “Predictive Risk Modeling”
A Child’s Death in L.A. Elicits More Questions than Answers Los Angeles County, home to the...
DCFS Unit Never Distributed $70,000 in Toys to Foster Kids and Mishandled Other Donations
LA County’s Children’s Trust Fund Unit (CTFU) failed to distribute $70,000 worth of...
Supes Approve Pilot to Provide Foster Kids with Transportation to School
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted in favor of launching a...
Jury Awards $11 Million to Family of Boy Abused During Stay at Troubled Group Home
After a more than six-week-long trial, a Sacramento jury has awarded more than $11 million to the...