Court stops Mass. family police from crushing minimal due process rights for families
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 4, 2023
The Massachusetts Department of Children and Families found that their determinations of “child abuse” and “neglect” were being overturned after a hearing half the time. Guess what they did: A. Realized their process for labeling people child abusers was rife with error and fixed it. B. Invented a way to evade the hearings. (After a court saw through DCF’s ploy, the agency started providing the hearings).
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