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  "path": "/2026/03/31/the-alaska-legislature-can-fix-the-office-of-childrens-servicess-foster-care-violations/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-31T22:13:29.000Z",
  "site": "https://alaskabeacon.com",
  "tags": [
    "Commentary",
    "34th Alaska State Legislature",
    "foster care",
    "foster care reform",
    "Les Gara",
    "Office of Children's Services"
  ],
  "textContent": "As someone who was lucky to succeed through foster care, it’s hard to watch a neglected foster care system that allows so much damage to Alaska’s most neglected children. Alarmingly, the state has chosen to violate the most important of the comprehensive foster care reforms the Alaska State Legislature passed, across party lines, in 2018. […]",
  "title": "The Alaska Legislature can fix the Office of Children’s Services’s foster care violations"
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