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On Thursday, the two sides reached an out-of-court settlement ... from Disability Rights Oregon. Two of them now have children of their own. Oregon child welfare officials have spent years ...
Oregon Child Welfare Director Aprille Flint-Gerner is leaving her post. The state announced Tuesday that Flint-Gerner ...
A child welfare caseworker with the Oregon Department of Human Services has been accused of sex abuse against a foster child. Wilbur Morris, 47, pleaded not guilty in Columbia County Circuit Court ...
Whenever child welfare officials ... order for the boy, the Oregon State Police said. But it was too late. Prosecutors suspect Strong died on Feb. 1, court documents say. Prosecutors charged ...
Oregon’s child welfare agency has been in and out of court since 2019, defending against a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of every child in foster care in the state. The suit was filed ...
German then left again, telling a friend that she was leaving Oregon over child welfare authorities’ interference. Court records show German left for Utah, where child welfare authorities also ...
Oregon’s beleaguered child welfare system, which serves about 4,500 foster children, is under a court order to improve the system. The case was brought by former foster children who suffered ...
Oregon child welfare officials knew the family in an SUV ... KOIN-TV reported. Growth charts provided to investigators showed all but one of the children were below the chart for height and ...
(KOIN) — Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, alongside 22 other attorneys general, submitted a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.
WASHINGTON — Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a new process that officials say ...
Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a new process that officials say will make ...
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said he had long been concerned about the algorithms used by his state’s child welfare system and reached out to the department again following the AP ...