Children’s group hails DHS audit
The director of a child advocacy group feels vindicated by an audit of Oklahoma’s child welfare system unveiled Wednesday.
Marcia Robinson Lowry, executive director of Children’s Rights, said the audit documents some of the problems cited in a federal lawsuit the group filed in Tulsa last year.
The lawsuit seeks to fix the state’s foster care system, which attorneys claim is broken.
Lowry said the audit shows the state Department of Human Services needs significant reform.
Children’s Rights wants to turn its lawsuit, filed on behalf of nine children in foster care, into a class-action case for all children in state custody.
A federal judge in Tulsa will hear arguments on the matter March 30.
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This is not very surprising since both these groups have something in common, making large amounts of money from the situation of suffering children while covering up the truth of the reasons for it. Some of the lawyers in the class action suit are involved in failing to properly represent children in court, one is even on the Juvenile Law Reform committee. And the company who did the audit ignored reports from the public here regarding some of the wrong and illegal actions of our system, it appears they might also be in line to get some type of contract to provide “oversight” to the system like in at least one other state they audited.