Department of Human Resources employee Kela Stanford, 54, was charged last Friday over Ke’Torrius Starks Jr.’s tragic July 22 ...

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Ray Mata Jr. and Graciela Bustamonte have been charged with first-degree murder, willful cruelty to a child, and torture ...

Family and community members gathered outside Kern County Human Services early Friday morning, demanding an investigation ...

The Kern County Department of Human Services has issued a statement following protests outside their facility early Friday morning.

The April report showed CPS is underfunded, understaffed and has a high turnover rate. These factors, the report says, affects workers with high case loads.

A retired New Jersey State Trooper and former county detective at the Ocean County Prosecutor's publicly accused the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office and child protective services of failing to act on ...

When investigated by the police, hospital staff, and child protective services (CPS), each entity may view the same events differently, but the sole and final decisionmaker is CPS.

An online petition is calling for an independent investigation of the Kern County Department of Child Protective Services, alleging a pattern of failure.

Key Texas lawmakers want to make it harder for Child Protective Services to remove youngsters from their birth families, streamline CPS’s parent agency and double down on foster-care ...

The bill, L.D. 1834, is one of several being considered by lawmakers this spring in response to a record-breaking number of child deaths in 2021. Last year, 30 Maine children were killed or died ...