Georgia

Trauma and mental illness seem to go hand in hand with foster care, writes Michael Fulcher.

A Georgia circuit judge ruled that federal law entitles students with disabilities to education services when in adult jails.

The director of Georgia’s family and children’s services resigned after he demeaned a Black sheriff’s deputy on state property.

Georgia has a new leader to advocate for the rights of children and youth in the child welfare system and the services they are entitled to.

Six new bills signed into law in Georgia this week are intended to accelerate the state’s ongoing efforts to make adoption easier.

For more than a decade, hundreds of disabled students locked up in a large Georgia jail have not been getting the special education services they’re entitled to under federal law, but that may soon start to change.

The vast majority of reports of child abuse and neglect emanate from adults outside a child’s family or neighborhood. Most calls come from so-called “mandated reporters,” who are required to disclose any concerns about child safety with protection officials.

Georgia will no longer maintain its child abuse registry, which launched four years ago to help investigators quickly identify and locate substantiated cases and keep tabs on the scale of the problem. 

Virginia Pryor, the chief of staff to Bobby Cagle when he served as Georgia’s child welfare director has been hired in the same capacity for his team at the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).