What Next: When Child Protective Services Gets It Wrong

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🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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An investigation into child welfare agencies around the country uncovered that the vast majority of searches of home environments happen without anything like a warrant, increasing the stress for parents as well as the children whose welfare is supposed to be being protected. Guest: Eli Hager, ProPublica reporter covering issues affecting children and teens in the Southwest. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What Next is brought to you by Progressive.
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0:38.6	As soon as we got on the line, I asked Eli Hager, he's a reporter over at ProPublica,
0:52.4	to click on this video.
0:54.6	When was this video shot?
0:56.1	In the early morning hours of February 8th, 2019?
1:02.6	This is tape Eli obtained from a source, a woman named Ranisha Ferguson.
1:09.3	Watching, you can see exactly what happened when police showed up at Ranisha Ferguson's
1:13.7	door, jolting her out of bed.
1:19.7	And what were the allegations against her on this February night?
1:24.9	Somebody had called saying that one of her sons had a bruise and a cut under his eye.
1:32.5	The police tell her they've got a court order to remove two of her children from her care.
1:37.4	They did not, according to our review of records, have any court order, but they did.
1:49.2	So they were lying.
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