Aug 28, 2023 Another Advocate for Due Process in Child Abuse Registries By Debbie Ausburn A county comptroller in Pennsylvania waded into the long-simmering dispute about the lack of due process in child maltreatment...
Aug 23, 2023 Incompetent Investigations Create Yet More Barriers to Recruiting Good Foster Parents By Debbie Ausburn A recent story from Washington state outlines another barrier to recruiting good foster parents, specifically jumping to conclusions...
Aug 21, 2023 Be Sure that Your Risks Aren't Excluded from Your Insurance Policy By Debbie Ausburn Insurance policies often contain exclusions that specify certain situations where coverage may not apply. In a recent case involving a...
Jul 24, 2023 Pedophiles Are Not the Greatest Risk that Youth Organizations Face By Debbie Ausburn We have seen a tendency for youth-servicing organizations (YSOs) to concentrate all of their efforts on preventing sexual predators from...
Jul 22, 2023 Therapies that Try to Uncover Memories of Abuse May be Counterproductive By Debbie Ausburn One long-running controversy in treatment of people who have suffered from childhood abuse is whether and how much to delve into their...
Jul 17, 2023 Prior Reports of Inappropriate Behavior Feed Into Current Claims Against School By Debbie Ausburn A California school teacher is facing sexual abuse charges from incidents occurring in 2021. According to a news investigation, the...
Jun 24, 2023 Don’t Let Attorneys Write Your Press Releases By Debbie Ausburn From Tennessee, we have another news story showing why attorneys should not craft press responses, or at least attorneys who are not...
Jun 12, 2023 Changes in Mandated Reporter Law Create New Criminal Charges By Debbie Ausburn A case from Pennsylvania reminds us that law can change quickly, and we need to keep up with it. Police have charged a principal with...
May 22, 2023 New Study About Disclosure of Child Abuse By Debbie Ausburn Researchers recently published an interesting longitudinal study of disclosures of child sexual abuse (CSA). They reviewed records of...
Apr 26, 2023 Fight Between Adults Was Not “Physical Abuse” Excluded from Insurance Policy By Debbie Ausburn The Massachusetts Supreme Court has concluded that a ”physical abuse“ exclusion in an insurance policy did not extend to a fight between...
Apr 24, 2023 Three Lessons From a Current Scandal By Debbie Ausburn The police investigation into staff at the Rainbow House in Clayton, County, Georgia, offers three important lessons for youth...
Apr 19, 2023 Maryland Ditches Limitations on Child Abuse Claims By Debbie Ausburn Maryland has joined the trend toward getting rid of statutes of limitations in child abuse cases. Even if your youth organization is not...