Texas’s foster care system has been in crisis for years now. The Lone Star State has been plagued by reports of abuse and neglect in the system. State workers are severely overworked, and there were even reports of foster kids regularly sleeping in the offices of state foster care workers.
Earlier this year a federal judge ordered Texas overhaul the system, and the directive was backed up by an independent review paid for on Texas’s dime.
Now, as the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has published a scathing rebuke of the federal order, complaining of the costs of the reforms. Lawyers for the state claim the directive to fix the system is a classic example of federal overreach. Texas is insisting that it can fix the system without any federal help.
But, as Edgar Walters of The Texas Tribune notes,“the system has been broken for years under [Texas’s] tenure, and problems have only worsened.”
