CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal court in West Virginia denied a class of former foster care children’s motion for sanctions against the West Virginia Department of Health Services because it did not timely produce case files in the class’s civil rights suit over “systemic deficiencies” in the state’s foster care system. The department “made mistakes in preserving and producing information,” but this was not done in bad faith or out of disrespect for any court order.
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