Texas foster care

Stephanie Muth, the new commissioner of the Department of Family and Protective Services, was given a warm welcome and a laundry list of fixes from a federal judge Friday.

Texas Foster Care and Adoption Services was the subject of TPR's 'Justice Ignored' series, which learned that an executive at the agency was accused of raping his grand niece but kept his job for months even after the state found it likely happened. TFCAS said the state didn't tell them about the abuse.

Texas' troubled foster system was roiled by allegations at a facility intended to help victims of trafficking. Since the news emerged, criminal investigators said the allegations documented by the state's foster system have been inaccurate. Now the state's foster care investigative director is leaving his position.

Texas argues states should have more say in child placement. Proponents of the law say it's a "gold standard" for Native child welfare.

Texas continues to grapple with a number of children sleeping in Child Protective Services offices and hotels.

The federal judge overseeing the decadelong lawsuit against Texas for conditions in its foster care system cut this week’s hearing short. She proposed all parties involved, including the governor, “cut to the chase” to identify solutions.

Increased oversight and lack of funding mean hundreds of children spend their nights in hotels and churches and on office floors.

From Texas Standard: A comprehensive report written by two court-appointed federal monitors says that children in the Texas foster care system continue...

From Texas Standard : The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services recently released new internal guidelines that cut the caseloads of foster...

Nearly four years after a federal judge first ruled that Texas violated foster children’s civil rights by placing them in a system where rape and over...