DFCS: Unhoused and unsafe

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A series of Atlanta News First Investigates reports uncovered the practice of office hoteling: housing teens in Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS) offices for weeks or even months without a bed and without going to school. Numerous police reports documented kids doing drugs, fighting each other, fighting workers, and running away.

Atlanta News First Investigates also has revealed why Georgia’s foster care system is overburdened.

Here is our continuing coverage of this issue:

• Federal probe into DFCS continuing despite new policy guidelines

• Woman pleaded for DFCS help before child dies in fatal fire
• Georgia foster care reform bill passed by state House of Representatives
• Senate passes bill reforming Georgia’s foster care custody
• Housing foster kids in county offices, hotels may soon end
• Jon Ossoff, Marsha Blackburn demanding answers from Georgia DFCS
• Unfit for living: Why kids under DFCS care were housed in offices

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