A parent who was removed from his home by the Montour County Children & Youth Services was deprived of constitutional due process rights, a federal judge has ruled.
The "safety plans" used by the county's CYS to alter child care following reports of suspected child abuse are inherently coercive, not voluntarily entered into by parents, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III of the Middle District of Pennsylvania held, looking to Third Circuit precedent and rejecting Seventh Circuit precedent.
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