Because there may have been court proceedings, doesn't mean the parents or children actually benefited from "due process." I retired from DFYS, the OCS predecessor, and due process was often found more in the breach than the observance.

The biggest problems I saw at the agency were frequent disrespect for the performance and ability of those who were capable of doing a good job, workloads driven by chronic failures to provide mandated "active efforts," huge turnover both created by impossible workloads and persistently poor recruiting and supervision, and a cultural milieu that treated responsible Native organizations as adversaries, instead recognition of them as indispensable partners. All the time I worked in the Northern Region, the only professional and competent director I ever saw was Rod Caskey, run out early by the Hickel administration which appointed a host of losers. The only supervisors I saw with a whit of common sense were long-retired Linden Staciokas and Tim Stewart.