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Illinois’ Child Welfare Agency Continues to Fail Spanish-Speaking Families - ProPublica
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Early last year, the Cook County public guardian grew worried that Illinois' child welfare agency once again was failing the Spanish-speaking families whose children were in its care. So Charles Golbert decided to conduct an experiment. For 10 months, lawyers from his office counted the number of new cases that involved Spanish-speaking families. Then the staffers checked how many of those families' files included a critical document that determines whether the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services mus...