Oregon's new laws include new rules around cat adoptions, a new non-opioid option for patients in care and updates to child ...

Oregonians who have been wrongfully imprisoned can petition the state for tens of thousands of dollars in compensation and an ...

The Oregon Child Abuse Hotline (ORCAH) receives a high number of calls that are neither reports of child abuse nor require Child Welfare intervention. In 2024, ORCAH, received 176,393 contacts ...

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 ...

The wide-ranging bill would create exceptions to send children out-of-state for care and change definitions around restraints and seclusions. Proponents believe it will help more kids get care.

Barely three days after 12-year-old Caden Berry of Keizer died, the head of Oregon's child welfare agency ordered ... or supersede investigations by courts, law enforcement agencies or other ...

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 physical ...

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 ...

When Oregon’s sweeping child welfare class action lawsuit was finally ... beyond belief” the case had been. U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken was blunt: She said the case “should have ...

“It needs to be written.” In 2019, the lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Eugene. The lawsuit alleged the Oregon Department of Human Services, agency director Fariborz Pakseresht and the ...

EUGENE – They were shuffled from foster home to foster home, physically abused and emotionally scarred. On Thursday, they spoke out on behalf of Oregon’s 4,500 children in the state’s ...

the legal director with Disability Rights Oregon. It’s unclear how big the bill to taxpayers will be when the final tab for this court case is tabulated. The state hired the law firm Markowitz Herbold ...