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Oklahoma employees blocked from DHS lawsuit

 
BY JAY F. MARKS | Published: March 10, 2009   

A federal judge in Tulsa has excluded a state employees’ group from a lawsuit seeking to reform the state child welfare system.

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The Oklahoma Public Employees Association, which includes more than 300 state Department of Human Services child welfare workers, filed a brief last month in support of an advocacy group’s attempt to turn its lawsuit into a class-action case.

U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell sided Thursday with DHS, agreeing the group did not have any unique perspective to offer.

The group’s proposed brief, which was filed Feb. 11, largely duplicated the arguments made by Children’s Rights, the advocacy group behind the lawsuit, Frizzell wrote.

Both groups are pushing for more training and a decreased caseload of child welfare workers.

Frizzell is set to hear arguments March 30 on the push to broaden the reform lawsuit to include all children in state custody.

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