Alameda County remains liable for foster child's meth-induced death

The brother of a 3-year-old girl who died after twice ingesting methamphetamine was also exposed to danger inside a Stockton foster home, a federal judge said while rejecting a motion to drop allegations against Alameda County. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on April 24 wrote that the allegations, if true, show county social workers "acted with deliberate indifference to a substantial risk of harm" to the brother of Mariah Mustafa.