Family
Jan. 27, 2004
State Weighs Costs, Benefits Of Open Dependency Court
LOS ANGELES - What if they opened the courts and no one came? In effect, that's what happened when Minnesota's new chief justice signed an order in 1998 for a three-year pilot program opening previously secret dependency court proceedings to the public, according to David Sanders, who at the time ran that state's largest Child-welfare department in Hennepin County.
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