Child Protection Issues
      in Kansas:
     
    Foster Care / Family Preservation / Adoption
     
      1995-2002: Privatization Pioneer Problems
        by Richard Harris
            former Civil Rights Commissioner, City of Wichita

Background Note:
Child-Protection Changes in Kansas

Overview
The Details

Links to Information from Other Sources:

Kansas Div. of Legislative Post-Audit:
Audit Summary, Most Recent Foster Care Audit
from the
Legislative Auditor's home page;   access to other audits.

Excerpts from state audit reports,
& related key articles from Kansas newspapers:
(Explicit revelations from official auditors and investigative reporters, and quotes from victims of the system.)

Major Kansas newspapers:
Foster-care articles & editorials:
(Note: Both newspapers listed below endorsed the candidacy of the governor whose administration has brought about these events.)

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UPDATES since 2001:
(all sources combined, chronologically)

SRS Press Releases, selected:
SRS Admits Taking Too Many Kids from Families,
March 3, 2000

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Links to NATIONAL Information
on Foster Care troubles:
  Articles from major news media and research.

Last updated September 9, 2002
Last revised March 11, 2022

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