Analysis: Texas Child Protective Services under fireMICHELE NORRIS
Anything Wrong Six months after a Harris County judge hit Child Protective Services with a rare $127,000 sanction for wrongfully removing a Tomball couple’s children, the state agency has abandoned its appeal and agreed to pay what may be an unprecedented sum for its handling of the case. ...
The campaign to have Kirill returned to Russia, however, had enough time to gain momentum, with the State Duma the main driving force behind it. "That's nothing that we would consider at all,”said Patrick Crimmins, spokesperson for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, in...
As an example of this “larger attack” — which Samuels, who uses gender neutral pronouns, said is causing widespread fear among trans people in Texas — they cited adirective issuedlast week by Abbott that called on the state’s child protective services agency toinvestigate the parents of m...
Texas 2036 and the Texas Alliance of Child and Family Services (TACFS) are releasing this week areport calling for the state to update the child welfare information systemused by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to track case file information, incl...
“Today’s witnesses — including a parent targeted by these attacks, experts on medical care, and a supervisor within Texas Child Protective Services — gave courageous and emotional testimony about the fear and harm caused by these unlawful actions. All trans young people deserve to live freely...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the state’s child welfare agency to investigate reports of gender-confirming care for kids as “child abuse."
The mother of both girls, Sini Mathews, was in court in Dallas today for a hearing with Texas Child Protective Services. Essentially the hearing was pushed back to a later date, for the second time, but there is now an agreement that once all the attorneys are onboard that the little gi...
thatU.S. District Judge Janis Jack, who has overseen the lawsuit for more than a decade,“must be removed”because of her “highly antagonistic demeanor” toward the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and Texas Health and Human Services, which oversee the ...
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services releases child fatality report In 2022, 182 children died due to abuse and neglect in Texas. Mar 1, 2023 Granbury man found guilty of child exploitation after son tips off law enforcement A North Texas man whose son reported him to law...