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A new Utah law that does away with emergency placement of abused or neglected children with relatives is sharpening criticism from two national child-protection advocacy groups and fraying family ties of those caught in the middle.
Advocacy groups over the weekend publicly called for the state's child welfare system to be put back under federal court oversight -- a sanction that was lifted just this past May after 14 years of litigation and significant reforms in Utah's child protection services. Dozens of grandparents and other family members of children taken into state protective custody, instead of being placed with them, are also voicing their own complaints.See the full content of this document
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Do Kin Background Checks Hurt Kids?
"I don't really understand what's going on," a Davis County grandmother told the Deseret Morning News. "All I know is, my 3- year-old grandson who's been living with me his whole life is down there where he doesn't know a so...
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