A secretive process that took a child away from his parents in northeast Colorado is about to become a lot less secretive.
One of the largest child labor cases in U.S. history was settled last year, when Packers Sanitation Services of Kieler, Wis., paid $1.5 million in penalties after a Department of Labor ...
Do confidentiality rules protect children and their families, or shield government agencies from public scrutiny?
During his Wednesday, May 8, 2024, virtual briefing, Gov . Jim Justice walked back his comments that CPS wasn’t aware of a ...
It is natural to assume that the author of a book on “transforming child protective services” would be interested in children ...
In January 2001, five-year-old Logan Marr was found dead in the basement of her foster mother's home in Chelsea, Maine. The foster mother, Sally Schofield, was a highly respected former caseworker ...
The Justice Department is poised to indict long-serving Representative Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from Texas, on Friday, ...
The Supreme Court seems likely to curtail federal agencies’ interpretations of laws passed by Congress, but Washington ...
Amid rising concern about the hazards of teenage sex, health and school leaders are calling for an expanded effort to teach sex education in the schools. At the moment the favored approach is ...
In recognition of National Justice for Animals Week (February 16-22, 2014), the Animal Welfare Institute is pleased to share with you an interview with Katherine Darke Schmitt, policy advisor in the ...
Thousands of Massachusetts parents face scrutiny from the state’s child protection system and, with it, the all-consuming fear of losing custody of a child. For many of these families, poverty ...
Accessibility to firearms, particularly handguns, influences the rate of teen suicides. Handguns were used in nearly 70% of teen suicides in 1990, up 20% since 1970. A home with a handgun is ...