Legal Opinion
Jacob v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided March 7, 2008No. Supreme Court No. S-11663PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CARPENETI, Justice.
I. INTRODUCTION
David and Joyce Jacob are the grandparents of three children who were taken into custody by the Office of Children’s Services (OCS) in 2000. Despite dozens of timely attempts to communicate with OCS seeking information about their grandchildren and requesting that the children be placed in their home rather than remain in foster care, and despite the Jacobs’ status as joint custodians of their grandchildren under an order of the superior court in Washington, the Jacobs were not given notice of and did not have an opportunity to be heard in any of the…
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