Tell Your Governor: Stop Public Funding of Unethical Child Removals

Tell Your Governor: Stop Public Funding of Unethical Child Removals

States spend millions of dollars annually on unethical child removals performed by child protection services (CPS). Each case averages about five (5) years in the judicial system and costs states hundreds of thousands of dollars for a law guardian/attorney for the children ($67K per year), attorney for CPS ($62K/yr), up to two attorneys for the parents ($70K - $140K/yr), the judge ($165K/yr), court appointed evaluators (CASA, mental health evaluators, therapists), including paid testimony time, and court ordered services for parents and children ($20 - $150/hr). CPS also costs states millions of dollars in legal damages paid to individual and class action plaintiffs who have won lawsuits against CPS.