DALLAS (AP) – An advocacy group that successfully sued Texas on behalf of children in long-term foster care says state objections to reforms recommended by court-appointed experts don’t square with official statements out of court.
New York-based Children’s Rights and the Texas lawyers who joined them in the lawsuit accused the state in Thursday’s filing of having filed a “blunderbuss of objections, disagreeing with and opposing every recommendation” from the court-appointed experts.
U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack last December declared the foster care system unconstitutionally flawed and ordered the independent overhaul by two special masters.
In a lengthy court filing last month, Texas objected to the reforms submitted by the special masters.
The plaintiffs had no objections to the reform recommendations. Jack is reviewing them.
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