The action came the same day a federal judge dismissed a yearslong sweeping class action lawsuit against West Virginia's ...

The West Virginia Constitution mentions several times the guarantee of “life” and “liberty.”  These are inalienable rights and the government has a responsibility to ensure that they are protected.

Department of Human Services DoHS Secretary Alex Mayer vowed, on March 10, 2025, to make changes to West Virginia’s troubled foster care system while children continue to live in hotels and ...

A federal judge in Charleston, West Virginia on Feb. 28, 2025 threw out a lawsuit brought by foster children in 2019 against ...

As a West Virginia judge dismissed a sprawling lawsuit contending the state’s foster care system has let down thousands of children, the judge said the true responsibility for reform lies with ...

Members of a West Virginia Senate committee decided to lay over a bill calling for an independent audit of the state’s child ...

A federal judge dismissed years-long litigation against West Virginia’s child welfare system last week based not on the ...

A federal court in West Virginia spontaneously tossed a civil rights class action brought by people who were formerly in the ...

The mother of a 3-year-old boy who left his foster parents’ house and drowned in the Little Kanawha River last summer has ...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WCHS) — The West Virginia Department of Human Services has been named in a wrongful death lawsuit after a child died while in foster care in Parkersburg. The lawsuit filed by ...

The blame squarely lies with West Virginia state government,” U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin wrote in an opinion ...

The action came the same day a federal judge dismissed a yearslong sweeping class action lawsuit against West Virginia’s welfare system on behalf of foster children. Circuit Court Judge ...