Family
Aug. 16, 2021
Panel reverses removal of well-fed, clean, safe children
“We agree with a general observation that drug abuse can contribute to homelessness. But no evidence supports such a link here. All that can be said on this record is poverty caused the family’s homelessness,” Presiding Justice Lee S. Edmon of the 2nd District Court of Appeal Division 3 wrote.
A homeless father tried to do everything right to take care of his children. The county took them anyway.
However, a California court of appeal agreed with the father and his two sons Friday that a Los Angeles County juvenile court commissioner used insufficient evidence to justify removing the children based on a social worker's belief the father had been using methamphetamines because he failed to make eye contact with her.
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