Administration of Children’s Services Commissioner Rebecca Jones Gaston assumes responsibility for a system that responds to ...

A federal judge in California ordered the government to stop using "blatantly coercive" language to persuade immigrant ...

The Louisiana legislature is looking to protect children by cracking down on online child exploitation.

Across this country, child protective services are given extraordinary power. They can come into your home, separate your family, and place your name on a registry that follows you for years, ...

Investigations have found that hospitals and child protective services (CPS) agencies often rely on drug screening tests with false-positive rates reported to be as high as 50%. Despite this, results ...

The jurors concluded that the officers violated the Fourth and 14th Amendments when they seized a 14-year-old without ...

A state program to protect frail elders has the power to uproot and place them against their will in facilities cited for ...

Short-term guardianship is a process that allows another adult to become the legal guardian of a child for up to one year. This process can be a protective measure and only implemented in extreme ...

Commissioners stall decision to expand protection from abuse docket after Jim Howell questions spending on legal aid for ...

Jane says a domestic abuse protection order made her "feel safer" and helped her rebuild her life.

Operation Midway Blitz brought hundreds of federal immigration agents to the Chicago area last fall and led to more than ...

Recommendations by Julie-Kim Godin come after her probe into how a 16-year-old boy killed himself in a Montreal hotel room.