A failure in the system because the judges and courts that provide "oversight and management" do not do so. In order to assess whether a situation is suitable for a child/ juvenile a Guardian ad litem must investigate. Part of an investigation would require a person to visit the place that a child/ juvenile. Quite often though this does not happen.
Des Moines Register
TOLEDO, IA. — The attorneys and guardians who represent youths at the Iowa Juvenile Home may have been unaware of the home’s use of long-term isolation rooms because they never saw the children’s actual living quarters, officials said Wednesday.
At the first meeting of the Iowa Juvenile Home Protection Task Force, the home’s interim superintendent, Mark Day, told the five members it appeared some of the attorneys may have been less diligent than others in serving their clients.
Under Iowa law, the court-appointed legal advocates for the youths, called guardians ad litem, should make firsthand observations of their clients’ living conditions to determine whether their needs are being met and their rights are not being violated.
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