Gallego Requests "Fight Club" Investigation
State Rep. Pete Gallego, D-Alpine, has asked the House Committee on General Investigating and Ethics to review how the Department of Family and Protective Services licenses, reviews and oversees residential treatment centers for foster kids. His move follows a Texas Tribune/Houston Chronicle story that revealed that developmentally disabled girls were forced to fight each other at a youth facility in Manvel.
In a letter to committee chair Chuck Hopson, R-Jacksonville, Gallego expressed concern that, although the employees involved in the abuse were fired, there were no formal inquiries into the incident by lawmakers and the agency has chosen to ...
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Lynne Skinner via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Thanks for the follow-up, Tribune.
Terry Gray Chandler via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Thanks, Pete. You always watch out for the children.
John T Castillo via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The Whole SYSTEM IS a MESS. THE DFPS and HHSC have no real Accountablity, They have run unsupervised for Decades. Several Children and Defenseless Teens have been let down by the People that sohould be protecting them. The Excuse of not enough personnel will not Fly. Both Departments are TOP HEAVY. Too many Cheifs and not Enough Indians. I Say MAKE ALL THE TOP OFFICIAL GO BACK INTO THE FIELD AND START AND THE BOTTOM AGAIN. Cut Their Pay till they prove the system is fix. After Corpus Christi Fight Club came out State Center were told that Cameras would Be Install ASAP. RGV State School to date has NO Cameras. MY Sister (a Client) has been hurt serveral time in the past year and there was not report to me or her gaurdian.
FIX THE BADLY BROKEN SYSTEM NOW...