West Virginia’s long-troubled foster care system will remain under federal scrutiny for an undetermined period of time, under a legal agreement quietly reached last month.
The new agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice dials back some oversight provisions, but extends a mandate that the state Department of Human Services continue to fix systemic problems with West Virginia’s efforts to help foster kids with a wide variety of disabilities.
“The West Virginia Department of Human Services (DoHS) continues to partner with the Department of Justice as DoHS’s system improves,” said spokeswoman Whitney Wetzel in an emailed statement…