The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office arrested a prominent local foster parent yesterday on suspicion of committing lewd acts against a minor. In response to a Journal inquiry seeking more information about the circumstances of the arrest, sheriff’s office spokesperson Samantha Karges said William Scott Peugh, 46, was arrested at 4:30 yesterday afternoon on suspicion of […]
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Local Tribes Support AG’s Effort to Continue CWS Monitoring
Four local tribes have announced they are “vigorously supporting” an effort by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to extend third-party monitoring and other provisions of a 2018 court ruling that found the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office and Department of Health and Human Services were not in compliance with the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act. In […]
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‘A Family to Be With’
Tiffany Strango’s philosophy is to love all children who enter her home as if they are her own. In her Eureka house, children are not pieces of paper and beds are not numbers. They are people and sanctuaries, respectively. Tiffany Strango never had the overwhelming urge to birth children but she and her husband George […]
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DHHS Wants You (to Foster Parent)
The Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services is desperately seeking some good homes looking to make a difference. Humboldt County has nearly double the state rate of children in foster care —1.2 percent of children ages 0-17 compared to .68 percent statewide, according to Kidsdata.org — and the high rates have been stretching […]