Two Georgia juvenile court judges say the head of the state’s child welfare agency asked judges to violate state law. They say Human Services Commissioner Candice Broce asked judges to keep some children inappropriately locked in juvenile detention centers.
ATLANTA — Two Georgia juvenile court judges on Monday told U.S. Sen Jon Ossoff that the head of the state’s child welfare agency asked judges to violate state law by keeping some children inappropriately locked in juvenile detention centers.
, reducing the number of foster children held in hotels or state offices because the state has no other place to put them. “What I’ve seen develop in my time on the bench is a culture of child protection by the numbers -- cases triaged to boost statistics and then closed prematurely in misleading triumph,” Sims testified.
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