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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]
U.S. child protective services (CPS) received a little over 2.5 million reports of child maltreatment in 2009 of which 61.9% were assigned to an investigation. [46] Research using national data on recidivism indicates that 22% of children were rereported within a two-year period and that 7% of these rereports were substantiated. [47]
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Texas parents Temecia and Rodney Jackson are demanding the return of their newborn baby after she was taken by child protective services in Dallas last month following a home birth.
In Texas, all cases appealed from district and county courts, criminal and civil, go to one of the fourteen intermediate courts of appeals, with one exception: death penalty cases. The latter are taken directly to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals , the court of last resort for criminal matters in the State of Texas.
SHERMAN – Thursday marked Day 3 in the Texas search for an 8-year-old Oklahoma girl missing since she was swept away in raging waters on Christmas Eve. This followed a tragic incident on Tuesday ...
To fill this information gap, we've requested records, scoured news reports and asked for readers' help. So far, we've counted more than 800 deaths, but based on federal data, we suspect there have been more. On average, nearly 1,000 people died in jails each year between 2000 and 2013, according to the Department of Justice.
Probable cases are included from December 11, 2020. Cases with unknown county of residence were omitted from December 1 through December 9, 2021. Texas ceased estimating recoverie