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6/13/2022
Sara Tiano
A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed by the family of Cedric Lofton, a Kansas foster youth killed by local juvenile justice authorities.
5/1/2021
The 16-year-old's killing by staffers at the for-profit group home where he lived has led to laws changing and similar facilities closing nationwide
12/2/2020
Michael Fitzgerald
After years of public pressure, a high-profile death of a child and the nation rising up in protest over police brutality, New York will ban disciplinary tactics for foster youth that advocates have described as “dangerous and barbaric.”
7/7/2020
Following the horrific death of a 16-year-old foster youth in a Michigan residential treatment facility – who died of cardiac arrest after staff pinned him on the ground and constricted his breathing – New York advocates are calling for the state to bar face-down restraints in facilities for the highest-needs children, calling the practice “dangerous” and “barbaric.”
