By Jeremy Loudenback, Photo: Khari and Kayla Love, The Imprint, November 15, 2021
A coalition of Los Angeles County racial justice advocates, lawyers for parents in the child welfare system, reproductive rights groups and community-based organizations is calling on elected officials to implement wide-ranging reforms to the local foster care system.
The demands presented Monday to the county Board of Supervisors draw on national advocacy efforts. They include a moratorium on removing children from home due to poverty-related neglect and domestic violence, an end to mandatory drug-testing of birthing mothers and newborns, and better protection of parental rights for those who are incarcerated.
The Reimagine Child Safety Coalition aims to “break down the family regulation policies in Los Angeles that target and harm Black and Indigenous families,” according to a letter delivered to county officials.
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