The child was immediately placed in the care of Alexandria DCHS Child Protective Services. The little girl was found dressed in warm clothes and appeared to be in good health, police said.

Chad York Elder, 44, was arrested on Monday and was booked into the Rapides Parish Detention Center. The Alexandria Police Department, in conjunction with Louisiana Child Protective Services, had ...

The center, a non-profit organization that opened in 2007, is the first place in Alexandria for victims of child abuse to go when they need help. It was designed to co-locate all the necessary ...

Detectives in Alexandria and South Carolina worked together to charge the suspect, 57-year-old Jacqueline Denise Spead of the 2600 block of Los Angeles Street, and to extradite her back to Louisiana.

The DCFS statewide backlog of child protective services cases has gone down in recent years. According to the audit, the backlog declined by 19.8 percent between the 2023 fiscal year and February ...

The Child Welfare Division had 1,541 employees serving 4,400 children in foster care per month and conducting nearly 22,000 child protection investigations in fiscal year 2024, according to the audit.