Families Vs. DHR

It Was Never About Justice It was never about truth.It was never about safety.It was never about protecting children. It was about feeding the machine. The Machine Needs Bodies Every day, the system looks for new families to...

When you think of CPS, you think of protection. Safety. Somebody looking out for kids when no one else will. But sometimes, the people we trust to protect our children are the very ones leading...

They Didn’t Knock Like They Were There to Help They didn’t ask any questions.They showed up with power not answers. Blue lights.A clipboard.And a lie or maybe a half-truth that was never fully examined. There was no...

Welcome to Sunday Spotlight — a new space created to expose what too many systems have worked hard to keep hidden. Every week, we will shine a light on the injustices faced by families across...

To the Parent Who’s Tired… There comes a moment in every parent’s fight where the silence gets too loud… The courtrooms too cold… The lies too heavy… And the hope too far out of reach. If you’re reading this...

The Role of Judges in the Crisis Every day in courtrooms across **Alabama—and the United States—**parents walk in believing they will finally be heard.They assume that the courtroom is where facts matter, where both sides...

There comes a point where injustice becomes too patterned, too precise, and too devastating to be dismissed as coincidence. What happens when it’s not just one worker, one agency, or one mistake—but a web...

Behind every courtroom order, every removal notice, and every traumatic knock on a family’s door, there’s often a worker—an individual who has been given the authority to make life-altering decisions. But what happens when...