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Policing in mental health cases have been harmful when foster youth are in need of support and trauma-informed services, says Tasha Matthews.

Florida child welfare officials want to end the practice of sheriff’s offices conducting child welfare investigations in parts of the state. 

Over Zoom, officials and activists negotiate a plan By Thaai Walker

As a Black former foster youth who spent most of my youth in Los Angeles, I have seen how police brutality and racism is a constant struggle in Black people’s lives.

Is it time to give up? In April, forced to spend all day inside, with too much time on my hands, this was the question that kept running through my brain.

Last week, an investigation by The Imprint revealed that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) had not investigated 4,000 serious cases of child abuse during 2018 and the first half of 2019.

Swiftly following The Imprint‘s story this week exposing that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) had not investigated 4,000 allegations of serious child abuse in 2018-19, a top officer with the department said that it has launched a review of those practices.

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a $200 billion budget last week that includes significant investments for the state’s child welfare and juvenile justice systems, though many of those are on a one-time basis.

Youth Services Insider highly recommends “Walking While Black,” a ProPublica series published this month about the thousands of pedestrian violation tickets issued to people in Jacksonville, Fla., over the past five years.