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A day after a federal judge ordered Texas to pay $100,000 daily in fines for failing to comply with court-ordered fixes to its foster care system, the state on Tuesday asked the 5th Circuit Court ...
A federal judge is fining Texas $100,000 per day for routinely neglecting to adequately investigate allegations of abuse and neglect raised by children in the state’s struggling foster care system.
Federal judge Janis Jack has ordered Texas health and human services officials to pay $100,000 per day in fines. Federal judge Jack fines Texas child welfare agency $100K per day for foster care ...
A 2004 report by Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn was very critical of the Texas foster care system. [10] A follow-up statement with continued criticisms of the Texas foster care system was made in 2006 by the Comptroller and renewed a request to have the governor create a Family and Protective Services Crisis Management Team. [11]
On November 19, 1993, Jack was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas created by 104 Stat. 5089. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 10, 1994, and received her commission on March 11, 1994.
In the decades leading up to the 1970s child custody battles were rare, and in most cases the mother of minor children would receive custody. [5] Since the 1970s, as custody laws have been made gender-neutral, contested custody cases have increased as have cases in which the children are placed in the primary custody of the father.
Texas’ foster care system has long been plagued by abuse and neglect allegations, and a lack of placements for vulnerable children. The state’s new community-based care approach aims to change ...
(The Center Square) – The state of Texas has two more wins in court, in a sweeping small business federal regulatory action that a federal judge ruled is unconstitutional and a federal agency ...