Severe reports
The most serious findings in the state inspection reports we hold: deaths, sexual and physical abuse, restraints that injured a child, suicide attempts, medical neglect and hospitalisations. Every quote below is the licensing agency's own wording, and each one was read against its report by a person before it was listed here.
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- AZ Arizona 23 reports
- AR Arkansas 15 reports
- CA California 193 reports
- CT Connecticut None approved yet
- FL Florida None approved yet
- GA Georgia 10 reports
- HI Hawaii None approved yet
- ID Idaho 2 reports
- IA Iowa 2 reports
- ME Maine None approved yet
- MD Maryland None approved yet
- MI Michigan 105 reports
- MN Minnesota 16 reports
- MT Montana 1 report
- NV Nevada None approved yet
- NH New Hampshire 20 reports
- NC North Carolina 53 reports
- OH Ohio None approved yet
- OK Oklahoma 13 reports
- OR Oregon None approved yet
- PA Pennsylvania 73 reports
- SD South Dakota None approved yet
- TX Texas 202 reports
- UT Utah 27 reports
- VA Virginia 22 reports
- WA Washington 19 reports
- WV West Virginia 6 reports
- WY Wyoming 8 reports
Or see every state by kind of harm
One report can describe more than one kind of harm, so it can be counted under more than one.
- Death A child died in care or after an incident there. 42
- Sexual abuse Sexual abuse, assault or exploitation, and sexual contact by an adult. 176
- Physical abuse or assault Staff hitting, choking, kicking or otherwise assaulting a child. 538
- Restraint or seclusion causing injury Holds, restraints and seclusion that left a child hurt. 89
- Suicide attempt A child tried to end their life. 18
- Self-harm Self-harm: cutting, swallowing objects, overdoses. 54
- Medical neglect Care withheld or delayed, and repeated medication errors. 12
- Hospitalisation A child taken to the hospital or emergency room. 79
- Child missing or ran away A child who ran away or went missing and died or was badly hurt. 39
- Police involvement Police called, or a staff member arrested or charged. 73
- Every kind Every severe report, newest first. 810
How a report gets on this page
A program reads every inspection report we collect and picks out findings that describe serious harm, using the state's own severity rating or complaint outcome where there is one. A person then reads the report and approves or rejects each one. Only findings the state substantiated are listed: a citation, or a complaint the investigator upheld. A child running away is listed only when it ended in a death or a serious injury. This page is not complete: it covers the states and reports reviewed so far, and a facility's absence here says nothing about its record. Every report we hold, flagged or not, is on the state trackers.