Sunday, April 28, 2019

Troubled foster care facility target of legislative hearing

Child welfare officials say there was credible information that foster children kept at a converted juvenile detention center in southern Oregon were subjected to strip searches, bullying and unwanted physical contact.

Top officials with the Department of Human Services revealed the information at a legislative hearing Thursday, shedding more light on the living conditions at the Youth Inspiration Program in Klamath Falls, a facility included in a federal lawsuit against Oregon's foster care system.

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