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The 25-year-old computer system used to manage the state’s child protection cases and social service programs wastes hours each week of individual employees’ time and stalls legislative efforts to improve child welfare.

County workers and lawmakers have some choice words to describe the 25-year-old state information system used to manage child protection cases and social service programs: Slow. Archaic. A nightmare. "It's the most vulnerable people that we have in the state of Minnesota that are in this system," Pine County Commissioner Terry Lovgren said. "They need the most care, they need the most help, ...

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Most incarcerated women in Minnesota have children. A new support group at Minnesota Correctional Facility - Shakopee is tailored to the specific grief these women feel that's often overlooked by society.

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Joanna Woolman, executive director of the Institute to Transform Child Protection at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, said longtime efforts of the institute, law students and others have led to new state laws that will keep more families together.

More Minnesotans are at risk of evictions and/or homelessness as protections have been rolled back.