Tuesday, March 8, 2011

California foster-care system: Secrecy that hurts kids

Assemblyman Mike Feuer of Los Angeles has introduced a bill to open California's dependency courts to the public.
By Jim Newton
March 8, 2011
Los Angeles Times

...."Foster kids don't have a union," testified one witness, Ed Howard, from the Children's Advocacy Institute. "They don't have a Chamber of Commerce. They can't vote. They don't have PACs. They aren't hiring PR firms. They don't do grass-tops or grass-roots organizing." And they suffer as a result. "Most everything bad that happens to them," Howard added, "happens to them in secret."

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-newton-column-foster-care-20110308,0,654325.column

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