Wednesday, December 18, 2024

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 18, 2024

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● Citing multiple examples of needless removal of children from the homes of disabled parents, the U.S. Department of Justice has accused Ar...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

An odious practice tolerated in most states – and encouraged in Oregon

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Third of three parts. Read the full series here . There is an odious practice in the “residential treatment” industry known in that industry...
Monday, December 16, 2024

How the Oregon “child welfare” agency wants to make it even easier for “providers” to get away with abusing children in their care

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  The Oregon State Capitol   Second of three parts.   Read part one here.   Faced with an artificial “shortage” of foster homes caused b...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Oregon’s “child welfare” agency wants to narrow definitions of abuse – but only when THEY are the abuser!

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In Oregon, "child welfare" has become a pathetic game of whack-a-mole. Looks like lawmakers are about to take another whack.      ...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

NCCPR news and commentary roundup, week ending December 11, 2024

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● You may need to read this excerpt from a story by The Marshall Project and Reveal twice, because the first time you may think: Wait that ...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

NCCPR in the New York Daily News: Can ACS stand up to foster care panic?

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 In 2011, Joette Katz stepped off the Connecticut Supreme Court to take a far more difficult job: running the state Department of Children a...
Tuesday, December 3, 2024

NCCPR news and commentary round-up weeks ending December 3, 2024

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● Tearing children from their parents because the parents are receiving medication-assisted treatment to control drug addiction doesn’t just...