Diane Redleaf, Author at Wednesday Journal

Protecting parents from the child protection system

by Diane Redleaf January 15, 2019February 10, 2021

The parents I represented as a longtime legal services and civil rights lawyer never expected to find themselves on the wrong side of a child-abuse hotline call. Erroneous judgments, finding both guilt and innocence, issue at alarming rates, often without any court review.

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