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Related: About this forumJudge plans to levy "substantial fines" after Texas failed to comply with court-ordered fixes to its
Judge plans to levy substantial fines after Texas failed to comply with court-ordered fixes to its foster care systemby Reese Oxner, Texas Tribune
U.S. District Judge Janis Jack said Monday she plans to levy substantial fines against Texas for failing to comply with her orders to fix its troubled foster care system.
Jack said shed announce at a later time a contempt hearing with a jury to consider sanctions. The state has already been sanctioned twice for violating the judges orders.
Im looking at substantial fines for contempt enough that you need to know youre entitled to a jury trial, Jack said. I think the public would like to know in a jury trial about these goings-on.
Jack said she was looking to sanction Texas in particular over the high rate of children who are sexually victimized or revictimized in foster care and the states failure in several areas, including its inability to properly punish or shut down unsafe child care placement facilities; to report incidents in which a child is made unsafe; and to obtain approval before placing children in facilities on heightened monitoring, a probationary status that requires the state to more closely scrutinize a facilitys operations and put it on an improvement plan.
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/06/texas-foster-care-sanctions/
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Judge plans to levy "substantial fines" after Texas failed to comply with court-ordered fixes to its (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Jun 2022
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Diamond_Dog
(31,979 posts)1. Wow,
Texas is a horrible place to be a child.
Wonder Why
(3,183 posts)2. But that's the same problem with big companies -
the State, county, city, government agency will be fined. Just like Big companies get fined. The state didn't do anything. Big companies didn't do anything. The PEOPLE that run them are responsible and need to be fined or jailed or whatever.
"The state has already been sanctioned twice..." Ooh! Big Deal. Fine and sanction those in charge and the problem may be stopped. Fine or sanction the state and nothing will change. When the governor, mayor, county commissioners, department heads and the rest of them who are responsible for causing the problem or doing nothing are personally hit with big fines and sanctions, then things will change for the better.