Entering child welfare system via parents' drug busts takes a terrible toll on children's lives -- on taxpayers' pocketbooks.
Children walk nearby as a man suspected of dealing meth is cuffed by officers with the California Multi-Jurisdictional Methamphetamine Enforcement Team. The children who were living in the house were taken into protective custody by CPS and taken to the Jamison Center.
Photo by Henry A. Barrios / The Californian
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