Here is a closer look at how Texas law is impacting CPS removals.
House Bill 567 was written to keep families together and prevent frivolous CPS inquiries. But child advocates say it keeps children in danger, longer.The idea was to preserve families and prevent children from being pulled into the state’s troubled foster care system. But a WFAA investigation found the law change may be keeping children trapped in dangerous households.
His 26-year-old mother, Tiffany Williams, was arrested and charged with injury to a child causing serious bodily injury. According to an arrest affidavit, Williams told detectives she beat her son multiple times, hitting him in the temple and stomach with her fist. The affidavit also says she hit him with an extension cord multiple times on his back and face. She admitted to police, according to the arrest affidavit, that she abused her son daily.
In 2020, they were removed again after a report to the agency about Williams’ drug use. CPS investigators wrote that the children tested positive for cocaine in their hair follicles, and they were able to determine that she physically abused the children. In the 19 counties that make up CPS’s North Texas region, removals dropped by more than 1,000, from 3,096 to 1,985.
In the two years since the law changed, they received more than 82,461 reports in 2022, and 82,191 in 2023 of suspected child abuse or neglect in North Texas. That’s more than the state received in the 19 counties that make up Region 3 in at least 10 years. H.B. 567 passed the state Senate unanimously. In the House, only four lawmakers voted against it. State Rep. Ana-Maria Ramos was one of them.
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