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AUSTIN A federal judge on Friday found Texas in contempt of court again for continuing to expose thousands of children to “an unreasonable risk of serious harm” while they are in foster care.
U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack threatened to levy fines of $75,000 a day against the state Health and Human Services Commission, starting Jan. 3.
The fines can be averted, she said, if the commission, which regulates foster care providers, stops dragging its feet and assembles by then an electronic readout of each home or facility’s five-year history on maltreatment and corporal punishment.
Despite being ordered to provide its inspectors the tool more than a year ago, the commission didn’t modify its database to accommodate such historical information until Aug. 31, three days before a show-cause hearing, Jack noted.