MENDON — Four people are in custody Thursday after a child removal led to the discovery of drugs and drug paraphernalia. The Mercer County Sheriff’s Office had received a court order Monday from ...

The immediate removal of a child from a home where fentanyl was found has generated emotional debate in Olympia. Senate Bill 6109 seeks to address issues related to child abuse and neglect, ...

A national child safeguarding review, launched after the death of aristocrat Constance Marten’s baby Victoria Marten, said ...

Suffolk County officials have unveiled sweeping changes for child protective services, including removing identifying information about the parents during child removal evaluations. The overhaul is in ...

The death of a child is an unspeakable tragedy. Such a heartbreaking event causes us all to question how such a thing could happen. Whenever a child dies from anything other than natural causes, the ...

I have followed the harm done to children by America’s child welfare systems for nearly half a century, first as a journalist, now as an advocate. In all that time I have never encountered a state so ...

Pictured here in June 2023, the Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse is home to the Sacramento division of the Eastern District of California. The building is clad in buff-colored limestone, ...

Native American mothers whose children were separated from them – either through child removal for assimilation into residential boarding schools or through coerced adoption – experience the kind of ...

DHS had never removed a foster child because of a generalized health threat, an official says. PICHER -- The removal of a foster child from a lead-polluted area in northeastern Oklahoma was the first ...