Child welfare fight erupts at hearing

From: Oakland Tribune | Date: March 8, 2006| Author: Michele R. Marcucci, STAFF WRITER | Copyright information

SACRAMENTO -- It was supposed to be a hearing on the impact of the Child Welfare System Improvement Accountability Act that state officials hailed as a national model for measuring the welfare of the state's child welfare system.

But the hearing Tuesday afternoon quickly disintegrated into a verbal brawl, with directly opposing views on whether the state's system has improved or whether it is actually accountable -- one that escalated in the hallway outside the hearing room.

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