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Legislative effort to crack down on Missouri boarding schools after mounting claims of abuse and neglect

by Alisa Nelson | Feb 11, 2021 | Crime / Courts, Education, News

Missouri and South Carolina are the only states in the nation that do not regulate faith-based boarding schools for youth. The secret is out and several of these schools have packed up and moved to Missouri to carry on their business of alleged neglect as well as...

Child advocate: Supreme Court reverses decisions that endangered children

by Mike Lear | Jul 14, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News

The state Supreme Court has issued rulings in two cases that advocates worried could have halted some child abuse investigations and caused names to be taken off the child abuse registry. In two cases, lower courts had ruled in favor of plaintiffs who said the state...

Increases for Children’s Division still pending for legislative budget proposal

by Mike Lear | Apr 29, 2014 | News

The Senate Appropriations Chairman says some of the money Governor Jay Nixon (D) and the state House proposed adding to the budget for the state Children’s Division might make the final legislative budget plan. The Senate Budget Committee didn’t follow the...

Child advocacy group pleased with criminal code passage (VIDEO)

by Mike Lear | Apr 28, 2014 | News

Child advocates say there are changes made in the proposed rewrite of Missouri’s criminal code that are good for children. Deputy Director of Missouri Kids First Emily van Schenkhof was involved closely in the development of the legislation. She says one of the...

Senate budget committee criticized for pulling money for child abuse investigators

by Mike Lear | Apr 10, 2014 | News

Governor Jay Nixon (D) is lending his voice to those concerned about the removal from the budget of $4.6-million for the state Children’s Division by the Senate budget committee. Advocates for children and prevention of abuse say the money would have supported...
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