A former Colorado social worker has been ordered to pay three million dollars to an Aurora city councilwoman after a court found she knowingly filed a false child abuse report. The case has become...
For decades, America’s family courts and child protection agencies have operated in a world largely shielded from public scrutiny. Parents rarely see the evidence used against them. Proceedings unfold behind closed doors. Judges hold...
Families vs DHR Editorial
There is a quiet injustice sweeping through communities that most Americans do not even know exists. It moves in silence, carried out by real people working inside a system that has...
There is a kind of thankfulness that belongs only to parents and loved ones who have been forced into battles they never asked for. It is not the simple kind. It does not come...
It usually starts with a knock. No court order. No paperwork. Just a stranger at your door claiming to be from DHR, sometimes with a police officer standing nearby. They say they are just...
In the heart of Alabama’s Wiregrass, in counties where the population is small and the power structure is tight, families are saying the same thing over and over again. From Houston County to Geneva,...
A Texas judge has issued what attorneys call the largest sanction ever imposed against Child Protective Services after finding that caseworkers lied in order to remove two children from their parents.
According to original reporting...
It is being reported that a seven-month-old baby, known publicly as Baby Kai, has died while under the care of Mississippi Child Protective Services (CPS). The child’s death has ignited public outrage and renewed...