Texas family care network. https://txfcn.org/ Great website. Synergies, partnerships, and other mealy-mouthed jargon just to say “we now run foster care for region 5.” A Pennsylvania company. Using that private agency as a placeholder for shenanigans in the DFCS system. “Privatizing” foster care - and they are calling in cases to CPS to remove not just one, but all the children in a family where there has been a removal, even if no evidence for subsequent removals exists. Example - a mom has a child removed and placed in foster care, but in the meantime gets her life in order and ends up having another child. No evidence of abuse or neglect, clean drug and alcohol tests - and the hospital where the birth occurs has no problem releasing the child to go home. Enter these thugs, many who retired from state employment, who call in an unwarranted CPS case for exigent removal of other children - no investigation, affidavit, or court order - because its a profit center, with costs shouldered by the state. What a lucrative racket! Makes one wonder if they pay their workers bonuses for each removal. In recent sessions, the state lege has been incrementally rolling back CPS authority, which in many cases makes good sense - only to have private contractors overreach. File under private prisons, state agencies bypassing the judiciary, ICE contractors, tow truck companies, etc. My friend owns a glass company. At lunch, I always joke “hey if business is lagging, I’ll grab my shotgun and go break some windows for you,” to which he exclaims “NO!.” Privatization is just another word for grift.