Archived news: 2009, 2008, 2007, pre 2006
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December 15, 2006 - Comptroller's report on Texas' foster system: medical care is failing Texas' foster children and needs and prescriptions should be better monitored by state. (News Article)
December 14, 2006 - AUSTIN, TX - Texas' foster care system is failing in the medical care it provides to children in its custody, Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn said in a report Thursday. (News Article)
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December 12, 2006 - CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) program up and running but the work's not over. (News Article)
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December 11, 2006 - ACLU - Austin, TX - Today, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas joined with leading conservative and libertarian organizations to file a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in support of the Gates family, in a case involving a warrantless raid of the Gates home and seizure of their children by the Defendants, Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (CPS) and Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office.(ACLU Press Release) (Brief Filed - PDF)
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November 21, 2006 - Tyler Judge demands Smith County utilize MORE group facilities within Smith County to prevent children from being placed out of county. For some reason, she believes that siblings will be placed together in these facilities. News Article
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November 12, 2006 - Critics: Boy's (Christian Nieto) death points to flaws in foster care system. News Article
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October 27, 2006 - A Navarro County Grand Jury Thursday indicted Beverly Latimer, 53, on charges of capital murder of a child under the age of 6. News Article
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October 10, 2006 - Moreno Families fighting for custody of girl and for her culture News Article
October 7, 2006 - Andrew Burd, age 4, died while in the care of his adoptive parents after being forced to drink salt water with Cajun spices and blunt force trauma causing brain hemorrhages. No charges filed. News Article
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September 14, 2006 - Six Month Old Baby Tests Positive For Cocaine News Article
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September 14, 2006 - Media credited for exposing stories of child deaths under the CPS umbrella... News Article
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September 14, 2006 - CPS authorities discuss changes to welfare system News Article
September 13, 2006 Judge returns toddler to mother and grandmother, after being separated during Hurricane Katrina News Article
September 12, 2006 - Texas is now planning to turn over the management of its child welfare system to a private, for-profit company News Article
September 11, 2006 - Parents Blame CPS For Toddler's Death News Article
Related story: News Article
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September 7, 2006 - FORT WORTH, Texas - Preliminary autopsy report indicates blunt force trauma cause of death of infant who had been in foster care for one week. News Article
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September 6, 2006 - FORT WORTH, Texas -- Corsicana police are investigating the death of a 16-month-old boy in foster care News Article
August 25, 2006 - Dina Marie Blakley, 37, was taken into custody late Wednesday and
charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child from age 11-13, who may have fathered her baby News Article
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August 11, 2006 - Ex-UT player charged with sexual assault of 12 year old in foster care six years ago .... News Article
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August 1, 2006 - A statewide Amber Alert has been issued for a three-year-old girl police say is missing after her mother was fatally stabbed. News Article
Senate Bill 1, Article II, Rider 30, of the 79th Texas Legislature requires the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to submit Child Protective Services (CPS) Reform Expenditure Reports to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. The reports cover appropriations, funding allocations, operating budgets and adjustments, year-to-date and projected expenditures, as well current and projected staffing levels.
DFPS has posted its May 31, 2006 Rider 30 report at
www.dfps.state.tx.us/About/Renewal/OtherReports.html
July 7, 2006 - The baby was born one day after Martinez and Rosales attended the funeral of
their 1-year-old son, also named Guadalupe Rosales, who died of shaken baby syndrome while in the custody of his foster parents, who also attended the tension-filled funeral. [no charges filed] News Article
July 6, 2006 - Boy To Remain In Foster Care After Brother's Disappearance
The idea that there was only 30 seconds and something happened to them just really didn't make sense to us," said Marissa Gonzales with Child Protective Services. "The fact that they were alone, unattended, was really the concern for us. News Article
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June 24, 2006 - Austin Texas, 63 foster children received medical treatment for rape that occurred while in the foster care system, 142 children and teens gave birth while in the system, and about 100 received treatment for poisoning caused by medications they were given while in care. News Article
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June 16-17, 2006 - Aberdeen Mississippi, Second Annual Save Our Children Day with Peter Love. News Articles
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March 25, 2006 - Chase Lee Chamberlain 2-year-old December 29,2005 (News Article)
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March 3, 2006 - Police Believe Child Died At Hand Of CPS Guardian News Article
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February 10, 2006 - Adoptive Father Arrested In Infant's Death. News Article
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