A federal judge on Monday lambasted Texas officials for challenging her authority to review how powerful mental health drugs are being given to foster.
At a Wednesday court hearing, Judge Janis Graham Jack of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas sharply criticized the Texas Department of…
Texas is backsliding on protecting foster kids from sexual abuse and keeping emotionally disturbed children from being overprescribed psychotropic drugs, a.
Residential facilities did not refill medications in a timely manner, failed to follow psychiatric orders and, in several instances, violated state guidelines, court monitors documented after site inspections. The lawyer representing the foster kids said it could be “the tip of the iceberg.”