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Once a child is taken from his home and placed into foster care his lot may not improve. Trudy Festinger, found that 28% of the children in foster care had been abused while in the system.

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California CPS News Archive

California News Coverage

by Maya Sugarman

A new report from the Chronicle for Social Change finds the cost of childcare as a primary hardship for working foster parents, and a major barrier for recruiting new parents into the state's overburdened foster care system.

LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl is proposing $31 million of child welfare funds to aid in the care of infants and toddlers. She said child care is one of the top barriers to placing children in this age group.

wbez.org

April 1, 2016

by Hailey Branson-Potts and Joseph Serna

The California Supreme Court will not hear an appeal from a Santa Clarita foster family to return a girl to them after she was relocated to live with extended Native American relatives in Utah.

The court rejected attorney Lori Alvino-McGill's request without comment Wednesday, leaving her and her clients, Rusty and Summer Page and their children, with only one final avenue left to try: the U.S. Supreme Court.

latimes.com

March 31, 2016

Milton Chen, "Jedi Master" of Education, and author of Education Nation will be presenting on the 6 edges in education - fostering revolutionary changes through innovative reform and the use of technology.

This important presentation offers a clear vision for classrooms to enhance learning opportunities for all children.

events.r20.constantcontact.com

February 15, 2016

by Tommy Wright

In response to alleged child abuse and torture that led to the deaths of two children and left another fighting for her life, the California Department of Social Services conducted a review of the Family and Children's Services...

County social services director Elliott Robinson will discuss the state review among other steps taken by the department to address organizational and system changes in child welfare services at the county Board of Supervisors' Health and Human Services Committee on Thursday.

montereyherald.com

February 14, 2016

by Daniel Barker

California health authorities are increasingly applying police state measures by forcing vaccinations and practicing genetic discrimination - violating constitutional principles and privacy rights.

The state's schools are now being penalized financially for not enforcing mandatory vaccinations; meanwhile children are being expelled for having a genetic predisposition to certain diseases - even when they don't actually have the diseases in question. Despite much controversy and outrage over California's vaccination laws, it seems that now health officials are emboldened to push even more authoritarian measures regarding the 'health' of the state's citizens.

naturalnews.com

February 8, 2016

by Leigh Martinez

A family in who lost their home in the Butte Fire is getting a Christmas surprise from employees at a Stockton store.

The Rainier family's house was destroyed by the September fire, and they've only recently moved from campground tents into a temporary house. The Stockton Lowe's store had planned a holiday party and giveaway for all Butte Fire victims left homeless.

sacramento.cbslocal.com

December 4, 2015

by Shea Johnson

A recently filed lawsuit accuses two Victorville foster parents of abuse over a period of two-and-a-half years and when combined with a similar complaint filed early last year.

In the most recent suit filed last Wednesday, Costa Mesa-based attorney Jack H. Anthony claims two minors with certified foster parents operating under the license of Children's Way Foster Family Agency were subjected to "acts of physical, emotional and sexual abuse and neglect and mistreatment and denials of their personal rights ..."

vvdailypress.com

October 20, 2015

by Marie Ekberg Padilla

The Aliso Viejo girl is severely allergic to 65 percent of all foods, including nuts, fish, dairy, gluten, legumes and some fruits. She is also allergic to pollen, dust, latex, penicillin, pesticides and genetically modified food.

Although Aeverie has never eaten a nut and has only been affected by airborne allergens or by touch, she has had some close calls. When she walked by a bakery a month ago, the airborne allergens triggered a seizure. And when she was just 6 months old, she ended up on a ventilator in the hospital for two weeks after receiving a kiss from her cousin, who had eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

ocregister.com

October 12, 2015

by Jenna Lyons

California is now a "right to dry" state after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Thursday restricting homeowners associations from banning clotheslines, which the groups deemed unsightly additions to neighborhoods.

Assemblywoman Patty López (D-San Fernando) announced Brown signed her bill, AB 1448, which will allow line drying for people once restricted by their property management organizations. "Growing up, my family and many of my neighbors used clotheslines as the way to dry their clothes and other laundry," López said in a statement. "Californians can now do their part for the environment while saving money on their electric bill by using the sunlight to dry their laundry."

sfgate.com

October 11, 2015

by Lisa Aliferis

The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a challenge to a requirement in NY state that all children be vaccinated before they can attend public school. The justices on Monday let stand lower court rulings that the policy does not violate the constitution.

This decision matters in California, where a new law passed this summer requires virtually all schoolchildren to be vaccinated against a range of diseases in order to attend school. The high court's move means that potential challenges to the California law are "not likely to succeed," Prof. Dorit Reiss, a vaccine law expert at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, told KQED.

kqed.org

October 6, 2015

by Jane Meredith Adams

In Orange County, home to the Disneyland measles outbreak that spread to seven other states and fueled a strict California vaccination law this year.

Attorneys for the Orange County Department of Education have stated that the new vaccination requirements apply equally to special education students, a group that some thought would be exempt because of their federally protected right to educational services. "The law doesn't say (special education students) are exempt," said Ronald Wenkart, general counsel for the Orange County Department of Education and the author of the memo.

kqed.org

September 24, 2015

by Tony Bizjak

Northern California saw a few rain sprinkles early Sunday morning, offering a momentary sign of the coming El Nino winter.

But the touch of precipitation - a remnant of a Pacific hurricane - was not expected to be of much help to firefighters battling two major area blazes, one near Clear Lake in Lake County, the other in Amador and Calaveras counties, fire and weather service officials said.

sacbee.com

September 13, 2015

by Charles Q. Choi

Californians may be used to hearing about the threat of potentially deadly earthquakes, but a new study finds that quake-triggered tsunamis pose a greater risk to Southern California than previously thought.

Tsunamis are monster waves that can reach more than 100 feet (30 meters) high. They are often caused by earthquakes; the 2004 Banda Aceh earthquake and tsunami killed about 250,000 people, while the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that struck offshore of Japan killed about 20,000 people and triggered a nuclear disaster.

nbcnews.com

September 10, 2015

by Angela Hart

Local law enforcement and elected officials were considering their response Tuesday to an act of political protest by homeless advocates who formed a makeshift encampment Monday on a former operations base for the Sonoma County Water Agency.

The demonstration, by a group called Homeless Action, was aimed at drawing public attention to the widespread shortage of affordable housing, maxed-out homeless shelters with long wait lists and local policies that prohibit people from camping on public property. It featured 12 brightly colored tents scattered around the perimeter of a vacant parking lot off West College Avenue in east Santa Rosa.

pressdemocrat.com

September 8, 2015

by Caroline Preston

Hillyer was in handcuffs and police were saying that both he and Anderson would be charged with felony child endangerment.

The officers had found prescription marijuana packets, pipes and burnt joints on tables in the living room and the couple's bedroom. Anderson and Hillyer explained that they were licensed users under California's 19-year-old medical marijuana law, but the cops said the couple had put their son, Sage, at risk by careless use of the substance at home. "Your baby doesn't need to be subjected to marijuana," one of the officers can be seen saying in a video of the incident.

america.aljazeera.com

September 7, 2015

by Anita Chabria

With the passage of a new law this summer mandating vaccines for schoolkids in California, home school advocates and organizations say they are seeing surging interest in off-campus education options that would exempt them from the requirement.

"The word on the streets is that, yes, people are coming to home schooling," said Sarah Ford, membership director for Sonoma County Homeschoolers Nonprofit in northern California. The controversial mandate, co-authored by state Senator Richard Pan, a pediatrician backed by the California Medical Association, requires any student in public or private school to have 10 vaccinations as an attendance requirement, with some exceptions for medical conditions.

theguardian.com

August 30, 2015

by Alison Vekshin

The San Francisco company's lobbyists are pushing lawmakers to exempt its drivers from obtaining commercial licenses before they can ferry passengers.

The San Francisco company's lobbyists are pushing lawmakers to exempt its drivers from obtaining commercial licenses before they can ferry passengers. Uber Technologies Inc. and its biggest competitor, Lyft Inc., depend on drivers with personal licenses who use their own cars to pick up fares hailed through a smartphone app.

governing.com

August 24, 2015

by Shea Johnson

A second lawsuit alleges abuse against two foster children at the hands of two foster parents who last year were sued for similar allegations in a case termed "the San Bernardino County 8."

The civil suit filed June 25 contends two foster children, now 22 and 16 years old, were subjected to "ongoing, unrestrained, terror, torture, corporal punishment, physical and mental abuse and neglect at the hands of" foster parents Lisa Oates and Nawab Wilson.

vvdailypress.com

July 29, 2015

by Olivia Deveau

Better communication and more collaboration between the Ventura County Human Services Agency and its partner organizations are needed to improve the county's foster care and adoption system.

Operated by VCHSA, the local foster care system placed 202 children in foster homes in 2014. The grand jury report, released June 5, outlines shortcomings in the system and recommends three corrective measures.

simivalleyacorn.com

July 3, 2015

Officials at Yosemite National Park said Wednesday they have selected a new company to take over hotels, restaurants and outdoor activities under the national park system's most lucrative single contract for services.

Aramark has been offered the 15-year contract valued at $2 billion, park spokesman Scott Gediman said. If the deal is approved, the Philadelphia-based company would replace Delaware North on March 1, the day after the old contract expires.

fredericksburg.com

June 28, 2015

by Lauren Sommer

State water managers have ordered the city of San Francisco to stop taking water from the Tuolumne River, restricting some of the city's senior water rights.

The orders are part of a larger effort by the state to limit water use from thousands of water rights holders, in order to manage dwindling supplies during the drought. It's an historic moment for San Francisco, whose early water rights and exclusive water system has kept the city out of the water battles that have plagued most of the state.

kqed.org

June 26, 2015

Time for changeTo the Editor: An Open Letter to the Mendocino County Supervisors: Mendocino County Health and Human Services (HHS) ranks at or near the bottom of the 58 California counties on many measures.

FCS fails to conduct timely investigations and is not in compliance with State-required educational standards for Social Workers handling child abuse/neglect cases. Under-qualified staff, staff shortages and poor management decisions are problems that need correcting.

ukiahdailyjournal.com

June 11, 2015

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors recently settled a suit filed by parents of two children who Sheriff's deputies kidnapped with no warrant. The

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors recently settled a suit filed by parents of two children who Sheriff's deputies kidnapped with no warrant. The settlement reached a mutually-agreed upon $800,000 to be paid to the parents in question, who said their civil rights had been violated. The lawsuit claimed that the children were wrongfully removed from their San Gabriel Valley home, some four years ago. The police had no warrant to take the children, but they were nevertheless kept by the state for four months.

countercurrentnews.com

May 22, 2015

by Amy Standen

Nearly nine in 10 Californians believe the drought is serious, according to a new California Field Poll.

The poll surveyed 1,664 Californians on their beliefs about California's drought. We asked The Field Poll Director Mark DiCamillo to walk us through the highlights.

kqed.org

May 19, 2015

On May 13 in a Los Angeles Criminal Courts courtroom, former airport baggage handler Cameron John Brown, 53, was found guilty of tossing his four-year-old daughter, Lauren Sarene Key, 120 feet to her death.

In November 2000 to avoid paying $1,000 per month in child support payments to the little girl's mother, Sarah Key-Marer. Yesterday's guilty verdict brings almost 15 years of waiting and two previous deadlocked mistrials to a close, according to USA Today.

examiner.com

May 14, 2015

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