Court declines to overturn temporary restraining order obtained by Kids to Love.
Lee Marshall, CEO of Kids to Love, speaks at a press conference Oct. 19, 2023, to discuss an Alabama Supreme Court ruling. Attorneys Patrick Hill, left, and Isabel Montoya-Minisee, look on. obtained by a Madison foster care organization seeking to stop the state agency from removing foster care children from their homes.
“The tragedy here today is there are over 6,000 kids in foster care and just 2,300 licensed foster homes,” Lee Marshall, founder and CEO of Kids to Love, said at a press conference Thursday. “DHR consistently recruits for more foster families. We have amazing foster families that have empty bedrooms that are just waiting to stand up and say, ‘We’ll welcome these children home.’
Kids to Love is a non-profit organization that certifies private foster care homes and facilitates private adoptions. County DHR offices refer children in need to agencies such as Kids to Love but that practice has been suspended since June due to what the state DHR said were “serious violations” of standards to be met by child placement agencies.
“On Sept. 10, DHR attempted to remove two of the children that were placed in a Kids to Love foster home,” said Isabel Montoya-Minisee, an attorney for Kids to Love. “But stated to the foster family that if they would move their licensing from kids to love to DHR they would not remove the children. At that time, we filed for a temporary restraining order at the circuit court of Madison County.
“Secondary, there have been allegations made that are misleading, that are untrue. And so we want a correction of all of that to the public and to whoever the statements have been made to that this organization has operated in nothing less than integrity in all operations. We have tort claims against these individuals in their individual capacities for knowingly violating policy and law by implementing this suspension on referrals.
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