Community | October 27, 2011 | 7 comments

State says 1,000 foster homes match sex-offender addresses

source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/foster-homes-sex-offenders.html

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The addresses for more than 1,000 foster homes and group homes in California matched addresses on the state sex offender registry, according to a newly released audit.

State Auditor Elaine M. Howle said child welfare officials failed to check the sex offender registry even after her office advised them to do so in 2008.

The auditor informed state regulators and local child welfare agencies of the 1,000 sex offender hits in July. So far, eight licenses have been revoked or suspended and regulators issued 36 orders barring individuals from licensed facilities.

The audit was ordered earlier this year at the request of state Assemblyman Henry Perea (D-Fresno). The audit was also intended to compile data on deaths of children who were under the oversight of child protective services.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors balked at subpoenas for information and hired outside lawyers to fight the inquiry. The auditor's office has vowed to continue to press the county for records and to issue a second report in the coming months.
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7 comments // State says 1,000 foster homes match sex-offender addresses

  • Leen61
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      Leen61  

    • Just horrible! This is a result of a break down in the system and they don't do proper background checks. This country is failing our children miserably.

    • 7 months ago
  • artemis6
  • wynnmeg61
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      wynnmeg61  

    • This is a problem throughout the nation -- foster care has become a business, that is why I have been so skeptical about Mrs. Bachmann and her 23 foster children and her reasons for fostering them in the first place. There are too many foster parents out there that do it for their own self-aggrandizement, or to bring the child to Jesus (since that is obviously the problem - lack of faith)

      It is also a case of seeing the speck in your neighbors eye while ignoring the plank in your own. California has sue several of its neighbors over their poor screening of perspective foster care givers.

    • 7 months ago
  • ThirdSection
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      ThirdSection  

    • I've been away from California for nearly 20 years now, and the state bureaucracy still doesn't know its left hand from its ass.

      I wonder if they have computers yet...

    • 7 months ago
  • Anonmaly
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      Anonmaly  

    • This is exactly why the whole issue is so troubling to me... I know I made a comment that probably bothered a few, saying basically; Anonymous going after kiddie porn viewers doesn't stop the ones perpetrating it... And how even being vigilant and trying to be aware of your neighborhood and neighbors is about futile.... And what do you do because the system is that damn corrupt...

      Sadly you found a story confirming my skepticism in the "system" helping a damn thing... I've heard first hand too many stories of abuse in foster care...

    • 7 months ago
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