A secretive process that took a child away from his parents in northeast Colorado is about to become a lot less secretive.
AKRON, Colo. — A judge recently ordered Washington County's Department of Human Services to release an internal investigation of its handling of child welfare cases. Alicia Johansen and Fred Thornton were finally granted custody of their son Carter in the spring of 2023, only after an internal investigation into the Washington County DHS and specifically its director Grant Smith.
“I think that whatever was happening might be the missing piece that led us to be in that place for three years of going, why is this happening?” Jordan said.Despite the case being over, Washington County continued to fight for another year and half, petitioning the Colorado Supreme Court to keep the details of that investigation sealed.
Hobbs was referring to social worker Diane Baird’s parent-child interactional evaluations, which have been under recent scrutiny in aIn the Thorntons' case, Baird sided with the foster parents despite Johansen and Thornton doing everything they were asked to complete in their parenting plan. Baird wrote,"the parents' growth is commendable and undeniable; it does not mitigate the danger to Carter in the event of a change of caregiver.
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