What we’re monitoring: Child Welfare • Gun Safety
A 13-year-old immigrant was arrested in Maine. It took 2 weeks to get her home.
The girl, who was in a vehicle stopped near Farmington before Memorial Day and was released after intervention from politicians, is an example of how children have become ensnared in President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda.
With federal funding in doubt, Maine’s domestic violence resource centers freeze hiring
Resource centers around the state have frozen hiring and are operating understaffed in anticipation of funding shortfalls.
A Maine judge was set to start releasing people without lawyers from jail this summer. Now that’s off.
The Maine Supreme Court halted habeas corpus hearings so it can consider an appeal from the state.
A woman hit her son in a grocery store parking lot. She says it was a spanking. The state says it was child abuse.
The story of one Maine woman’s fight to get her son back offers a rare glimpse inside the state’s secretive child welfare system.
New federal data shows Maine’s foster care population grew at the fastest rate in the nation
OFCS Director Bobbi Johnson cited the agency’s response to high profile child deaths in 2017 and 2018, as well as a lack of attorneys to represent parents and a dearth of support services, as reasons for the increase.
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