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In this article published in the special Pro Bono Week issue of the Chicago Bar Association Record (October 2011), Executive Director Diane Redleaf and Staff Attorney Melissa Staas discuss the importance of the FDC's Pro Bono Program in helping us handle as many administrative cases (and help as many families) as possible:

Civil Rights, Individual Rights, and Administrative Law with a "Family Law" Twist: Using DCFS Hearings to Exonerate Wrongly-Accused Parents and Caregivers
 

In this article published in the Fall 2011 (v. 14 no.1) American Bar Association Children's Rights Litigation Committee Newsletter, Diane Redleaf discusses how some mothers risk losing custody of their children because they fall into a gender-specific category, such as being a victim of domestic violence or having depression:

Protecting Mothers Against Gender-Plus Bias: Part 1
 

In a two part series that appeared in the American Bar Association Children's Rights Litigation's Newsletter, Diane Redleaf and Steven Pick explore the legal issues surrounding challenges to a child abuse registry listing.

Part I appeared in the Summer 2010 Newsletter and is available below beginning on page three.

http://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/childrights/content/newsletters/childrens_summer2010.pdf 

Part II appeared in the Fall 2010 Newsletter and is available below beginning on page one.

http://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/childrights/content/newsletters/childrens_fall2010.pdf 
 


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Issue #12 of the Family Defender is here!

Click here to read the full version
 
This letter perfectly expresses what so many of our clients (and thousands of families across the nation) have faced due to wrongful investigations by DCFS and other child welfare agencies.  Even the best of intentions can have serious repercussions!

Read: Dear Neighbors
 
In response to legislation introduced in the wake of the recent Penn State scandal, see the Family Defense Center's Analysis of S. 1877 - the "Speak Up to Protect Every Abused Kid Act" (Click Here) and a listing of Child Abuse Misreporting Cases in the Docket of the Family Defense Center (Click Here).
 

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