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Audrey O’Neill named commissioner of Texas’ foster care agency

O’Neill is the fifth commissioner of the beleaguered Texas Department of Family and Protective Services since 2012.

The Texas Tribune · Sep 18, 2025

Long-running lawsuit against Texas’ foster care system appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court

Lawyers representing foster children asked the high court to reinstate a contempt order against the state, and the judge who issued it.

The Texas Tribune · May 16, 2025

Texas foster home linked to boy’s death had history of fight clubs and sexual misconduct, report says

The death of an 11-year-old at a Greenville residential treatment center is among 16 deaths reported in the Texas foster care system in the last 15 months.

The Texas Tribune · Feb 11, 2025

Child welfare officials move to reduce Texas judge’s oversight of embattled foster system

The request to remove several court orders marks the first time the state has made any major attempt to get out from under an injunction issued in the 13-year-old case.

The Texas Tribune · Feb 22, 2024

Judge considers holding state in contempt a third time over foster care conditions

U.S. District Judge Janis Jack on Monday considers whether state’s foster care agency has made progress caring for most vulnerable children or should be held in contempt for the third time in an ongoing 2011 lawsuit.

The Texas Tribune · Dec 5, 2023

Sex trafficking, drugs and assault: Texas foster kids and caseworkers face chaos in rental houses and hotels

A report from Department of Family and Protective Services watchdogs paints a picture of a roughshod safety-net system that is unprepared to protect its youthful charges from predators and unable to keep them from endangering themselves.

The Texas Tribune · Nov 6, 2023

One-third of Texas foster care caseworkers left their jobs last year as the agency continued putting kids in hotels

The Department of Family and Protective Services has increasingly relied on housing foster kids in hotels when it can’t find them a home. In the 2022 fiscal year, after record staff turnover, more than 1 in 4 caseworkers had less than one year of experience.

The Texas Tribune · Sep 26, 2023

Caseworkers hampered by ’90s-era foster care software that the state hasn’t replaced

Caseworkers and foster care providers often get incomplete and inaccurate information about foster kids in their care because of the state child welfare agency’s archaic technology system.

The Texas Tribune · Mar 22, 2023

How a 12-year-old federal lawsuit turned a judge into Texas’ foster care czar

As Judge Janis Jack continues to threaten contempt-of-court fines in a federal lawsuit against the state’s foster care system, advocates say the case has moved the needle on reform — but it has come with a hefty price tag.

The Texas Tribune · Feb 9, 2023

Texas child welfare agency fires employee for encouraging a foster child to consider sex work

A spokesperson told The Texas Tribune that all employees are trained before supervising youth. DFPS Commissioner Jaime Masters apologized to the child and her mother.

The Texas Tribune · Aug 14, 2022