Will big fines force Texas to fix its foster care system? | Opinion
U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack During the latest hearing in Texas’ decade-long foster care lawsuit, federal District Judge Janis Graham Jack again threatened to hold two state agencies in contempt of court because of their continued failure to fix unsafe conditions for foster care children they’re supposed to protect.This is no one’s preferred outcome.
It’s not that nothing is being done to reform the state’s foster care system. The problem is that the turnaround is not happening fast enough. In the meantime, Texas children are getting hurt. There are more than 30,000 kids in the care of the state. “I don’t know what is an acceptable [rate], but 25 percent is not, ”Jack said at a court hearing this week.
That last data point highlights another major failure. According to the monitors, fewer than half of the records of about 650 children that they reviewed showed that caregivers had signed to attest that they had received forms that document children’s histories of being sexually abused or sexually aggressive.
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