Posted on 05/28/2023 10:30:01 AM PDT by CFW
San Bernardino County is being sued over its treatment of foster children.
A 68-page class action lawsuit was filed on Thursday, May 25, in U.S. District Court in Riverside, on behalf of more than 5,800 children who are or will likely end up in foster care.
The suit was filed against the California Department of Social Services, CDSS Director Kim Johnson, Gov. Gavin Newsom, San Bernardino County, the county Board of Supervisors and Department of Children and Family Services and CFS Director Jeany Zepeda. A second class of plaintiffs consists of hundreds of children with disabilities in the foster care system, whom the lawsuit claims have been especially harmed by the foster care system.
“Workers in San Bernardino County can’t possibly protect these children because of their high caseloads, no matter how hard they might try,” Marcia Robinson Lowry, director of A Better Childhood, the national nonprofit that brought the lawsuit, is quoted as saying in a news release issued Thursday.
“This is an ingrained system that ignores the needs of these children, and far too many children are suffering grievously because of it,” Lowry continued. “California should be doing far better for its most vulnerable children. Neither the state nor the county is stepping in to help these kids and reform is long overdue.”
(Excerpt) Read more at sbsun.com ...
Not one child will see a penny of it.
It’s California, so I am surprised the proposed remedy is not post-birth abortion.
Sueing on behalf of folks who aren't even victims?
IIRC-—Riverside County has become majority Hispanic/Illegals in past 30 years.
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