With reporting by AL.com A 3-year-old child in Alabama foster care has died after being left inside a parked vehicle for roughly five hours while under the supervision of a Department of Human Resources (DHR)...

A five year old is hospitalized with life threatening brain trauma. A woman from Dothan is behind bars. And Alabama’s child welfare agency is once again facing questions about why it failed to act despite reported warnings.

Former Alabama foster parent and minister Patrick Streeter has been convicted on multiple counts of sexually abusing a foster child in his care between 2018 and 2021. The charges include sodomy, sexual torture, and unlawful sex acts. He now awaits sentencing in Madison County Jail.

When DHR Sends a Letter — Pay Attention. Your Rights and Your Family May Be on the Line. Families across Alabama are often blindsided by a letter in the mail marked from the Department of...

Over the last several months, I’ve poured hours — no, days — into researching and understanding where and how the Alabama child protective system, and systems like it across this nation, have gone so...