Samantha Bartosz is quoted in this Buzzfeed article about the harmful misuse of psychotropic drugs in Missouri foster care.
Children’s Rights In the News
Christina Wilson Remlin discusses new anti-LGBTQ legislation that targets queer youth in out of home care by attempting to give service providers a license to discriminate.
More than 200 civil rights organizations, religious groups, and child welfare organizations signed a letter to members of Congress opposing legislation that would authorize discrimination in the child welfare system.
Samantha Bartosz is interviewed regarding Missouri foster care and psychotropics on KCUR’s Up to Date.
Samantha Bartosz, deputy director of litigation strategy for Children’s Rights, speaks about the need for safety reform in this article about Michigan’s foster care system.
Case update: a first-of-its-kind legal action challenging improper use of psychotropics on children in Missouri’s foster care system is moving forward thanks to a recent federal court decision.
A federal judge has granted class-action status to a lawsuit regarding alleged overuse of psychotropic medication by Missouri’s child welfare agency.
Writing in a joint op-ed, Christina Wilson Remlin and Currey Cook (Lambda Legal) denounce the Aderholt amendment, which “authorizes discrimination against adults and children, permitting government-funded conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth and denial of lifesaving health care.”
A lawsuit charging Missouri officials have failed to properly oversee the administration of psychotropic medications to children in foster care was certified Thursday as a class action. Samantha Bartosz is quoted.
In a ruling hailed as “historic,” a federal judge sided with the city of Philadelphia and same-sex foster and adoptive parents. Christina Wilson Remlin is quoted speaking out against policies that exclude LGBTQ people or others simply because they do not pass a religious or moral litmus test.
