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• Foster care licensing agent arrested

  April 19, 2012 in City on Page A6 A state social services employee who licenses foster care homes was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of child pornography possession. Darrell J. Rogers, 51, is in the Spokane County Jail without …

• Couple accused of injuring boy

  November 5, 2011 in City on Page A10 A Post Falls couple were arrested Thursday in connection with the injury of one foster child in their care and the death of another. Jeremy M. Clark, 36, and Amber … 1

• Foster care reforms in place by 2013

  November 1, 2011 in City Reforms prompted by a landmark lawsuit against Washington state’s foster-care system will be completed in two years under a renegotiated settlement announced today by the Department of Social and Health … 1

• Courthouse family rights protest planned

  August 11, 2011 in City on Page A6 A family rights group is planning protests on Friday against the child welfare system at courthouses across the nation, including Spokane. The protests, planned in 42 states and Washington, D.C., …

• Search for a stable condition

  August 3, 2011 in City on Page A1 Alicia Ponce-Myers should be swimming. Or playing basketball with her friends. At the very least the 12-year-old from Tonasket, Wash., should have been able to enjoy summer Bible camp: she … 1

• Program helps young adults aging out of foster care system

  January 20, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page N1 Eighteen can be an exciting age. Many young people anticipate attending college, while others plan to work or join the military. And most are eager to move out from under … 1

• A father changes tune on foster care

  December 18, 2010 in City on Page A1 When he was 19, Rusty Stout said that if state officials ever came to take away a child of his as they once took him away from his mother, he … 5

• Foster parents commit to kids

  November 28, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 It is hard to imagine that 1,300 children are in Idaho’s foster care system. November is National Adoption Month, and Idaho Youth Ranch is hoping to find foster and adoptive …

• Police are still probing death

  January 16, 2010 in City on Page B1 One year ago today, 2-year-old Karina Janay Moore died from injuries she sustained 10 days earlier in her Post Falls foster home. Police received the call at two seconds after …

• State investigates child welfare office

  August 10, 2008 in City on Page B1 A high volume of complaints regarding the Washington Division of Children and Family Services’ Colville office has triggered an investigation by the state ombudsman. Ombudsman Mary Meinig will be in …

• Spokane holds annual adoption day

  November 17, 2007 in City on Page B1 It was baby bedlam in Spokane County Superior Court, where judges presided over a record number of adoption proceedings on Friday, National Adoption Day. “I usually spend my day putting …

• Tormented kids frustrate state

  February 6, 2003 in News The case of Rusty Stout is echoed by hundreds of other foster children in the state’s child welfare system. Neglected, abused and witnesses to violence, foster children have become increasingly …