Perspective
Mar. 22, 2012
Order opening dependency courts: Nothing new except procedure
It's time to clarify some myths that have lead well-intentioned people to oppose the order. By Robert Fellmeth and Ed Howard of the University of San Diego School of Law's Children's Advocacy Institute
In Los Angeles County, the lives of tens of thousands of abused and neglected children are every day irrevocably changed by what happens in the County's dependency courts. There, judges with massive caseloads make life and death decisions about children based entirely upon information provided by lawyers and social workers who themselves have massive caseloads.
With an appellate court "summarily" (the cour...
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