Sandy West is a freelance journalist and former full-time time reporter and editor for small town newspapers, business publications and the Associated Press. She has covered a wide variety of topics during her career, including health care, natural disasters, infrastructure, public health, child welfare and LGBTQ civil rights. She has a particular interest in telling the stories of people in vulnerable situations and the nexus between politics and public policy and the health and well-being of communities and people.
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In Texas, a journalist uncovers a "shadow child welfare system that operates outside the purview of state officials, in spaces created by gaps in oversight and the law."
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Private foster care and adoption agencies in Texas are brokering contracts for moms to turn over their children in a murky legal world, spawning protracted civil custody battles.