DFPS

Despite rising deaths, Texas limited safety services and enshrined laws that made it harder to remove a child.

TPR catalogued the number of deaths and built an interactive website.

An 11-year-old living in a hotel with CPS workers was taken by a man now charged with indecency with a child and trafficking. The girl escaped hours later, but no one had noticed she was gone.

A state investigation found that Maofu Home Health failed to monitor the drugs that advocates said he was overmedicated with.

Four court filings, hundreds of pages and thousands of serious incidents illustrated how ill prepared the state is when directly caring for youth — a job their workers were never meant to do.

Judge Janis Jack was presented with new reports of the state's failures in its Child Without Placement issue just days after Texas' attorney's asked to void several parts of her oversight.

More than 800 youth this year have spent time in unlicensed placements throughout Texas.

A hearing in Bexar County around a child in state's foster care program raised questions about how the system is run and what damage a lack of placements has on youth.

A former Department of Family and Protectives Services employee said managers were using miles and points accrued from hotel bookings for foster youth and using them for lavish trips.

After several years of collaborative state agencies, a federal judge said recent filings and objections signal a more defiant stance in foster care litigation.