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The Texas Health and Human Services Commission will be fined $100,000 a day until it comes into compliance on two remedial court orders.
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Four court filings, hundreds of pages and thousands of serious incidents illustrated how ill prepared the state is when directly caring for youth — a job their workers were never meant to do.
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Judge Janis Jack was presented with new reports of the state's failures in its Child Without Placement issue just days after Texas' attorney's asked to void several parts of her oversight.
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The state's child without placement crisis has been well known and documented for four years. Critics wonder why it hasn't been solved and what it may say about a system that's been in federal court for more than a decade.
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State documents show Texas paid $260 million over three years to keep kids in hotels and leased homes temporarily. Unregulated placements that advocates say warehouse youth with the most needs in the most dangerous way.
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Both sides finished their arguments Wednesday after days of testimony over accusations that Texas agencies don't protect foster children.
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More than 800 youth this year have spent time in unlicensed placements throughout Texas.
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Lawyers for the state’s foster care system tried to fend off contempt complaints stemming from alleged failures to observe several court orders from federal court monitors and plaintiffs in a case that stretches back 12 years.
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A hearing in Bexar County around a child in state's foster care program raised questions about how the system is run and what damage a lack of placements has on youth.
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A former Department of Family and Protectives Services employee said managers were using miles and points accrued from hotel bookings for foster youth and using them for lavish trips.