Congratulations to Jennelle Johnson on a Shelter Care hearing win in Juvenile Court!

When DHS wishes to have the power to remove children from a family, they must have a court appearance within one business day of the removal.  In this case, Multnomah county’s DHS refused to remove the children from a family, so the Washington County DHS filed with the court asking for this power.  Ms. Johnson argued to the court that the caseworker working with this family is a Multnomah county DHS caseworker, that the family and children all live in Multnomah county, and that the only connection that this family has to Washington county is that they once in the past had lived in Washington county.  The court agreed with Ms. Johnson that the case should be in the Multnomah system (which didn’t want to remove the kids) and not in the Washington county system.  Accordingly, the Washington County case was dismissed!