Despite the problems facing Kansas foster care, lawmakers in the final hours of their annual session dropped a plan to hold the troubled system accountable.
A provision creating a child welfare oversight committee was eliminated from the state budget, a last-minute casualty of the legislative battle over Medicaid expansion. If approved, the panel could have summoned officials to explain problems, drafted legislation and provided frustrated parents with a place to vent.
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Probably because the lawmakers are benefitting from access to the child sex rings dcf is linked to there in Kansas? Had a friend I went to high school with, her niece was distributed from a foster home to a sex ring in another town...dcf and cops did not help to find her, only the birth mother found her in the sex ring.
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