Tuesday, February 11, 2025

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending February 11, 2025

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● More than 20 years ago, a lawsuit stopped New York City’s family police agency from tearing children from their parents just because the p...
Monday, February 10, 2025

Adopted to death in North Carolina?

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An adoptive mother is charged with murder, torture, and crimes straight out of a horror film nightmare.  That’s an aberration.   At least on...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

NCCPR in Honolulu Civil Beat: Hawaiʻi Foster Care Numbers Are Down. But Not Down Enough

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In a comprehensive story about a new report from the Child Welfare Services Branch, Civil Beat posed an important question: Can the decline ...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

NCCPR news and commentary roundup, week ending February 2, 2025

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● When the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act, that challenge came from Texas. Now, The Imprint report...
Sunday, February 2, 2025

Maine family police agency’s “good news” may not be so good

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...unless you're a child taken by the Maine family police - in  which case you might never go home. (Photo by Jimmy Emerson) The Maine M...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

NCCPR News and commentary round-up, week ending Januaruy 28, 2025

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● The Imprint asks if the new Secretary of the Interior, Doug Berman will  continue the ongoing project to document the harms of Indian ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

NCCPR in the Oregon Capital Chronicle: Oregon DHS needs to stop playing whack-a-mole with vulnerable children

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For nearly a decade, Oregon’s approach to child welfare has amounted to a pathetic game of whack-a-mole.  The “solution” to one crisis beget...