by admin | May 15, 2003 | News
State lawmakers take a step closer to addressing the problems at the Division of Family Services disclosed when a southwest Missouri boy died while in state-approved foster care. House Speaker Catherine Hanaway of Warson Woods sponsored the legislation clearing the...
by admin | May 13, 2003 | News
The State Senate has voted to put foster-care facilities that are run by religious groups under a special provision of a new child abuse law. The proposed new child abuse law says religious-run foster-care facilities can exercise reasonable discipline. Senator Patrick...
by admin | Apr 18, 2003 | News
A bill promoted as a fix of the troubled state child welfare system easily passes the House and moves to the Senate. And, though the foster care bill wins approval on a 121-to-14 vote, it has its critics. The bill calls for the state to experiment with privatization....
by admin | Apr 15, 2003 | Politics / Govt
The Missouri Supreme Court’s Commission on Children’s Justice is debating the provisions going into their report of how to fix the state’s troubled child welfare system while lawmakers are already making changes of their own. Former Supreme Court...
by admin | Apr 10, 2003 | News
A bill aimed at reforming the state’s troubled Division of Family Services has been given tentative approval by the Missouri House. The focus on DFS has been intense ever since the death of young Dominic James while in was in custody of state-approved foster...
