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12/11/2023
ChrisAnna Mink
California’s ‘failure to protect’ law allows child welfare agencies to take kids from homes scarred by domestic abuse, which some say can worsen trauma.
2/1/2022
Jeremy Loudenback
As Los Angeles County becomes the latest child welfare system to turn to big data and algorithms, critics worry these tools will exacerbate inequalities.
1/26/2022
Sara Tiano
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to conduct an audit of the Department of Children and Family Services.
1/13/2022
Bobby Cagle recently stepped down as leader of Los Angeles County’s child welfare system, citing the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic.
11/23/2021
Four years into his tenure as the head of the nation’s largest local child welfare system, Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services Director Bobby Cagle is leaving his post.
2/24/2021
Margie Roman with her granddaughter Jessica. Photo courtesy Jessica Roman Like many families served by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services, Margie Roman — a longtime employee of the child welfare agency — stepped up to help raise two granddaughters when the girls needed a stable home.
5/19/2020
John Kelly
In a ruling that seemed to be contradicted almost in real time, an Illinois judge dismissed a legal challenge to the state’s blanket ban of most family visits for parents whose children are in foster care.
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5/5/2020
With Californians hunkered down to stop the vicious spread of coronavirus, three Los Angeles County sisters are stranded 400 miles from the places they call home, with no idea when they will be able to return.
3/23/2020
As Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services awaits more protective gear for its thousands of social workers, a state directive to child welfare agencies has created tension about how employees will remain protected from coronavirus on the job.
3/10/2020
Jacqueline* was 13 when she first entered the Los Angeles foster care system in March 2015. She had severe mental health issues, and her mother couldn’t give her the high-level care she needed at home.
