To my babies,
We love you.
There isn’t a system big enough to erase that. Not a courtroom. Not a report. Not a badge. Not a signature at the bottom of documents built on assumptions, pressure,...
Editor’s Note:This op ed is published anonymously to protect the safety and privacy of the parent and children involved. The account reflects the lived experience of a Dale County family and is shared in...
By The Parents
Published September 22, 2025
Families vs DHR has launched a campaign that cannot be ignored.
Rebellion Weaponized is not a slogan. It is the daily reality of families in Houston County who have...
This is our second report concerning a beautiful little girl whose arm was broken while at a daycare in Dothan, Alabama.
Three-year-old Xylah, a nonverbal autistic child whose well-being was entrusted to the staff at...
Kela Stanford, the Alabama DHR contracted transport driver charged in the tragic death of 3-year-old Ketorrious “KJ” Starks Jr., failed to show up for her first scheduled court appearance on Monday.
According to WBRC, Stanford...
Right now, our team sits in the office with heavy hearts. Not just because of the quiet rain sweeping across Alabama but because of a different kind of storm, the kind that comes when...
They take the child out of class. They close the door.
They ask questions the child does not understand. Alone. No parent present. No legal counsel. No warning.
This is not a scene from a courtroom....
After her toddler’s arm was broken in two places at a Dothan daycare, Sharazzi Huguley received a letter from Houston County DHR confirming that abuse occurred but naming no one responsible. No charges. No accountability. This article exposes how Alabama’s child protection system responds when harm happens inside institutions and how it often fails the very children it claims to protect.