editor victoria’s comment ~ from 2015….still relevant today….wonder what the numbers are now as this came out during the previous admin…..
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When Child Protective Services received a complaint that a Harris County father had choked his teenage daughter, caseworker Michelle Robinsonsaid she hurried to the house, conducted a thorough investigation, determined there was no merit to the allegations and closed the case.
Except she didn’t. In October, a Harris County jury convicted Robinson for falsifying CPS records, concluding that she’d lied when she said she’d
interviewed key sources in the case and that she left the young girl in danger. Robinson was sentenced to a year of probation and ordered to pay a $300 fine.
It wasn’t an isolated case. Since 2009, at least 50 CPS workers have been caught lying to prosecutors, ignoring court orders, falsifying state records or obstructing law enforcement investigations, according to an American-Statesman review of state and court documents.
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