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Board adopts Welcome Homes policies as oversight panel flags gaps in child-protection investigations
Summary
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Aug. 19 to receive the Welcome Homes fourth-quarter report and adopt two policies governing county-run emergency youth shelters, while the Child Protective Systems Oversight Committee presented a 2024 report using new eSCAR data to show many suspected child-abuse reports that lacked criminal investigation.
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Aug. 19 to receive the Welcome Homes fourth-quarter report and approve two policies governing county-run emergency youth facilities, after a departmental briefing and public comment.
The action, moved by Vice Chair Patrick Hume and adopted by the board, accepted the Sacramento County Department of Child, Family and Adult Services' (DCFAS) quarterly summary and approved an Emergency Intervention Plan and an Unauthorized Absence Intervention Plan for the county's Welcome Homes.
Why it matters: The board action came as the Child Protective Systems Oversight Committee delivered its 2024 annual report, drawing on the county's new electronic suspected-child-abuse-report system (eSCAR) to show a large volume of reports and a mismatch between reports and law-enforcement investigations. Committee members and the district attorney's office told supervisors that the data show many suspected abuse reports are not receiving criminal investigations and urged continued funding for the…
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