NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

Even the minimal due process protections in criminal justice are effectively null and void in “child welfare.” High-quality defense counsel for all families at risk of being caught in the family police net. ? Repeal of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act – or at least strong backing for legislation proposed by Rep.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

It was tried first in criminal justice – and proven to be racially biased. could just as easily have become such avatars – but Viola and Joseph died in foster care. Andreas was allegedly tortured and beaten into a coma by his foster mother. It amounts to computerized racial profiling. Anthony Avalos. Noah Cuatro.

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