Honolulu Civil Beat | Why Hawaii's Child Welfare Services agency is an outlier @civilbeat | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 minutes ago.
Investigations Editor John Hill has covered Hawaii's Child Welfare Services for years.

He breaks down some of the issues he's written about, including lawsuits against CWS, the lack of transparency he's encountered, chief challenges the agency faces and more.

00:00 Intro
00:17 Lack of transparency at CWS/the Ariel Sellers (Isabella Kalua) case
01:10 Conflicts of interest in the system
02:52 Why is Hawaii's foster care system in tough shape?
04:20 Child placed with young, single man
06:16 Kids taken from homes without judge's approval
08:44 What's the way forward?

Read more of John's work: civilbeat.org/author/jhillcivilbeat-org