A state plan that some child welfare activists claim would roll back 10 years of regulatory measures meant to better protect foster children in Oregon is the subject of a simmering dispute ahead of the 2025 legislative session.
As part of Oregon’s settlement of a federal class action lawsuit over egregious failures in the child welfare system that plaintiffs claimed violated children’s rights, proposed legislation unveiled earlier this week would narrow the definition of what constitutes abuse of a child in foster care, just as a neutral monitor is beginning to track that data.
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