Dr. Bazak Sharon has filed a lawsuit accusing Dr. Nancy Harper of silencing Doctors at UofM Fairview who find evidence of non-abuse causes of infant illnesses. The Defendants in the case repeatedly pressured Dr. Sharon to keep true and exculpatory facts out of the babies charts. The falsified evidence put the babies at risk of losing their parents and not getting the medical treatment they needed. The complaint outlines the funding mechanisms that incentivize false abuse case

Carman Leone of Hennepin County Adult Representation Services (like a Public Defender for parents in child protection cases) moved the Court to find the rollout of the Minnesota African American Family Preservation Act unconstitutional both facially and as applied.    The Act is part of a decade long, and in a larger sense generations long, struggle to correct the significant racial disparities in Minnesota Child Protection. An ABA study found Hennepin County to be in the bot