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InvestigateWestEven in states like Oregon without an explicit “failure to protect” law, abused mothers can face prison time. -
Saskia Hatvany/OPBThe disappointing trend comes shortly after the state settled a class-action lawsuit and promised to reduce the rate of abuse.
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A Roseburg organization that helps children who have been assaulted — the only one of its kind in the rural county — is pausing services amid a budget shortfall. -
Jackson County commissioners are weighing whether to intervene after a patron at the Talent library was reported for viewing videos of naked children, raising concerns from other library patrons and prompting a police investigation. -
The settlement stipulates Disability Rights Oregon and the state will agree upon a “neutral,” an expert to oversee the foster care system and work with the individual to improve the child-welfare system, primarily by reducing the rate of mistreatment and improving the quality of placements. -
In 2019, a national advocacy group filed a class-action lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Human Services, alleging the state mistreats children in its foster care system and has failed to fix glaring problems. Five years and millions of dollars later, the next trial has been delayed as the two sides near a settlement agreement. -
Oregon’s child welfare agency has been in and out of court since 2019, defending against a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of every child in foster care in the state. -
The plaintiffs have accepted the offer, which is the agency’s largest award in Oregon history to settle a foster care lawsuit. -
The suit says the state Department of Human Services ignored complaints about abuse, injuries and neglect and kept children in the home. -
The numbers of child abuse cases continue to climb in Douglas County, and not just in the population center around Roseburg. So the organization taking… -
The children's advocacy center concept has helped authorities investigate child sex abuse cases; advocacy centers are quiet, comfortable places for… -
The people of Lane County had had enough. They watched as child abuse rates stayed stubbornly high in the county, and wanted to bring them down. So 90by30…
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We've made inroads in limiting child abuse and neglect, but there's more road to travel. A number of organizations gathered in Oregon over the last year… -
We have come a very long way indeed from the days when spanking and belting children was common and accepted. It's not just that children don't especially…
