A federal judge has ordered California to increase payment rates immediately to thousands of foster parents, noting that it has been more than 2 1/2 years since he ruled that the state’s reimbursement levels failed to cover the costs of raising a child.
State officials “have now had a full and fair opportunity to come into compliance with federal law. They have not done so,” U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco said Friday.
Federal law … does not bend to accommodate state law legislative hurdles,” the judge said.
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Those legislative hurdles include lack of money.
But the unelected life tenured judge knows best.
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