…sign the CVA, she said. She testified that he was interested when she talked to him about a CVA and that she explained the document to him on more than…
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![The Cherokee County Department of Social Services building in Murphy, N.C. on May 18, 2020. After an SBI investigation, A grand jury indicted several former DSS officials on Monday.[Frank Taylor/The Carolina Public Press]](https://i0.wp.com/carolinapublicpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cherokeedss.jpg?resize=1172%2C879&ssl=1)
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Family separated by DSS offers emotional testimony in 2nd day of federal civil trial
…him. Another judge voided all other CVAs three months later, returning children to their families because CVAs are not lawful in North Carolina. Nearly every Cherokee County DSS worker…
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A federal case: Violated rights versus ‘best interests’ of child
…of town, Garrett said, “No.” Hogan regained custody of his daughter after presenting the CVA to District Court Judge Monica Leslie in December 2017. A ‘stuck case’ All CVAs were…
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Federal civil trial to put DSS practices on hot seat
…the department used CVAs until December 2017 — when the state Department of Health and Human Services asked about them. Defense brief says CVAs were harmless In the upcoming federal…
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Investigation to decide employment of indicted former DSS director
…more than three dozen felony and misdemeanor charges. The charges stem from the workers’ coercive practice of using a so-called Custody and Visitation Agreement, or CVA, to separate children from…