Thursday, April 28, 2011

EDITORIAL: Bill To Open Dependency Court Hearings Killed: That’s a Shame

By EGP Editorial

Los Angeles- A bill in the state legislature, AB 73, which would have opened dependency court hearings to the public, was put on hold Tuesday, and that’s a shame in our view.

The bill, authored by Assemblyman Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) was one of the few solutions under consideration to improve the outcomes for children in the child welfare system that would have allowed greater transparency in how we treat children who find themselves in the system through no fault of their own.

Too often, children are returned to parents whose actions were the cause for them being placed in the system in the first place, only to be returned to foster care when those same parents prove once again to be incapable of providing a safe and healthy home. FULL STORY

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