Parents ask judge to hold DC in contempt

Parents taking on D.C.’s beleaguered child welfare system have lost faith in Mayor Adrian Fenty’s reform efforts and are asking a federal judge to hold the city in contempt, according to court documents obtained by The Examiner.

D.C. has been subjected to class-action litigation over its troubled child welfare bureaucracy for more than two decades. Modest progress had been made, advocates said, but parents in the class-action suit said in court papers that Fenty “has allowed the child welfare system to return to a dysfunctional state.”