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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
