Quoting from this site:
Despite the lack of public information, Barker Alvarez said there are a number of internal controls to assure the proper handling of cases. Those controls range from attorney representations for parents at dependency hearings, which are not open to the public, to an independent foster-care review board, to a family-advocacy office where grievances can be filed and private legislative hearings conducted, such as the ones in which Paton is taking part.
I had attorney representation. I paid him $800 to ignore my phone calls and emails, talk to me for maybe five minutes before each hearing, and tell me that the errors in the reports and assessments “didn’t matter.”
Maybe they should have had these people who killed their children do random drug testing, as they did to me. Or any number of other humiliating things I had to do, that might have illuminated the fact these people are monsters before their children died.
Hey, they did it to me.