The Department of Human services says it follows a clear protocol for when it investigates children's deaths. One lawmaker ...

A new report says 88% of Oregon's counties fall short of having even one mental health professional per 1,000 residents.

PHOENIX — Five child welfare workers fired in the wake of a scandal about uninvestigated abuse complaints will not be getting their jobs back. In its ruling today, the state Court of Appeals did ...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed 53 new laws this week, covering rental assistance, education, consumer protections, and state ...

At the end of June, 16 percent of all CPIs statewide handled over 20 open investigations, according to DCF’s public Child Welfare Dashboard. The backlog is worse in certain regions like ...

This new bill aims to help Child welfare and family law experts who spoke with the PBS NewsHour called the termination of parental rights a “death penalty,” because there are few pathways to ...

After being arrested in 2021, a Muscatine woman recently was sentenced in the Southern Iowa District Court to 45 years in federal prison for producing and possessing child sex abuse materials.

A separate abuse and neglect case has been filed in child welfare court against the parents. The infant was temporarily removed from the home, but she has returned to live with her mother ...

A Hobart man convicted of two counts of child molesting in March is entitled to no reduction in his 12-year prison term, according to a new ruling by the Indiana Court of Appeals. A Lake County ...

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