Maryland Is Still Hiding Its Missing Foster Children — We’ve Been Asking for Seven Months
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On Wednesday morning, Maryland's Department of Human Services confirmed to Spotlight on...
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Maryland’s Most Vulnerable: The Children Who Died While Annapolis Looked Away
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Since January 2023, when Gov. Wes Moore took office, Maryland has continued to lose some of...
Maryland Bans Hotel Placements, Rolls Out New Tech — But Is Foster Care Finally Fixed?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews After a scathing September 2025 legislative audit exposed deep failures in Maryland’s...
Lawmakers “Frustrated” — But Maryland’s Foster Care Crisis Is Years in the Making
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland lawmakers say they’re frustrated. They should be. But what unfolded in Annapolis...
Children Left Behind: Maryland’s Foster Care Crisis Moves From Hotels to Hospital Wards
By MDBayNews Staff A troubling new report by The Baltimore Sun has exposed a quiet but deeply disturbing reality inside...
HOTEL ROOM, NO SECOND CHANCES
By Michael Phillips When a child dies under state supervision, the public is owed more than condolences. We are owed...
Government Failure at Its Worst: How Maryland’s Foster System Left a 16-Year-Old Girl to Die in a Hotel Room
On September 22, 2025, tragedy struck in East Baltimore when 16-year-old foster child Kanaiyah Ward was found dead inside a...
Half a Billion for Failure: Maryland’s Foster Care Expansion Ignores the Real Crisis
On September 10, 2025, Maryland Matters ran a glowing report about the Maryland Board of Public Works approving a $465...