Officials Call for Foster Care Case Inquiry
Two Los Angeles County supervisors called Tuesday for an investigation into why child welfare officials took 10 years to locate a foster child’s father even as he continued to send the county child-support payments for his daughter.
Supervisors Mike Antonovich and Don Knabe called on the Department of Children and Family Services along with the Child Support Services Department to better cooperate to prevent a similar case from occurring.
Thomas Marion Smith has sued the county, alleging that the county’s failure to find him in a timely fashion condemned his daughter Melinda to a decade of foster homes and institutions.
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