PRINTABLE PAGE Gay, Religious Groups Demand That Moore Resign By Dana Beyerle, Montgomery Bureau ChiefOriginally published in The Tuscaloosa News, February 23, 2002 MONTGOMERY — Local and national homosexual and religious groups on Friday demanded Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Adopted Overseas Children Will Become Instant U.S. Citizens By Bill Douthat, Palm Beach Post Staff WriterOriginally published in The Palm Beach Post, February 22, 2001 Children adopted overseas will be given instant citizenship beginning next week when they…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Judge Allows INS to Hold Teen By Jody A. Benjamin, Staff WriterOriginally published in the Sun–Sentinel, March 8, 2002 In a setback for advocates for undocumented immigrant children, a federal judge in Miami ruled Thursday that he could…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Foster Workers Can’t OK Kids’ Pills Only parent, judge can approve use, agency decides By Carol Marbin MillerOriginally published in The Miami Herald, May 1, 2001 State child welfare workers have been forbidden to approve psychiatric drugs for…
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PRINTABLE PAGE ‘Cadillac’ Plan New Foster Kid Approach Program aims at drug treatment By Carol Marbin MillerOriginally published in The Miami Herald, June 2, 2001 TALLAHASSEE — A panel of doctors, social workers and advocates is developing what they call…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Advocates Criticize Medicating Foster Kids Treatment raises claims of misuse By Carol Marbin MillerOriginally published in The Miami Herald, April 12, 2001 Hard-to-manage children in Florida’s troubled foster care system routinely are being prescribed powerful psychiatric drugs as…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Children’s Groups Criticize Florida’s Ban on Gay Adoptions By Terri Somers, Staff WriterOriginally published in the Sun-Sentinel, February 21, 2002 Several of the nation’s most respected children’s advocacy groups told a federal appeals court Wednesday that Florida’s ban…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Attorney General: Child Abuse Reports Are Public Record By Mark Hollis, Tallahassee BureauOriginally published in the Sun-Sentinel, July 25, 2001 TALLAHASSEE — Drawing praise from government watchdogs, Attorney General Bob Butterworth on Tuesday told Florida’s child-welfare agency that…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Chicago Jury Awards $3.3 Million to Abused Foster Children Social worker held to have violated due process rights By Margaret Cronin FiskOriginally published in The National Law Journal, June 14, 2001 In the latest in a growing number…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Move Afoot to Change INS Handling of Children Who Are Illegal Immigrants By Marc LevyOriginally published by The Associated Press, February 15, 2002 HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Back in July, four teen-agers from the impoverished African country of…