Paxton, federal judge tussle over foster care fix
In the latest turn in a long-running tussle between a federal judge and Texas officials over how to fix the state’s troubled foster care system, state lawyers on Thursday said nearly all group foster homes were providing 24-hour supervision even as the judge appeared to reprimand them over the issue.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton notified U.S. District Judge Janis G. Jack of Corpus Christi that all but one of 58 foster group homes with seven or more children have 24-hour supervision.
The Thursday filing came two days after Jack had clarified her 2015 sweeping order calling the foster care system unconstitutional and seeking to ensure that foster kids are “free from an unreasonable risk of harm.”
The judge said that during a “telephonic hearing” on Dec. 21 “it came to the court’s attention” that her 2015 order “was being incorrectly interpreted” by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.
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