ANNAPOLIS — A federal appeals court has rejected an effort to overturn a federal court ruling requiring reforms in the Baltimore city foster care system. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision was issued Wednesday in the 26-year-old L.J. ...

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A licensed clinical social worker in Maryland can testify regarding the risk a child in foster care faces if returned to an allegedly unfit parent, the state’s top court has held unanimously. The Court of Appeals upheld the termination of ...

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A newly released report from the Maryland Department of Human Resources shows progress in child welfare reform. While only three jurisdictions out of 23 counties and Baltimore City reached their goals, improvements were found across the state. Even Advocates for ...

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A modified consent decree agreed to last year as part of a decades-old dispute over Baltimore’s foster care system will be the subject of an appeal heard Wednesday by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The state attorney general’s ...

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There’s been some activity in the case of the Muslim woman whose foster care application was denied. If you want the backstory, check out my first blog post: Turning down a helping hand. In a nutshell: Tashima Crudup, a Muslim, ...

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After eight years of living in my beautiful Charles Village neighborhood (in three different locations, all within four blocks of each other), my wife and I are finally moving. We always knew this day would come, but we did not ...

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Last week was an emotional one. Which, maybe for me, says a lot (my wife and I have an ongoing joke that the only time I cried watching television was in the rebooted Battlestar Galactica episode “Exodus, Pt. 2” when ...

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