DHS Fires Back In Class Action Lawsuit

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UNDATED -- New details have come to light Thursday in the federal class action lawsuit against Oklahoma's child welfare system.

The state is fighting back against claims that caseworkers are overloaded. The group of attorneys suing DHS claimed the agency didn't really know how many cases workers were assigned.

But new court documents filed this week claim each worker only has 12 to 16 cases.

Attorneys for the Department of Human Services say Oklahoma is one of only seven states with a federally-approved tracking system that monitors the number of clients each caseworker is assigned.

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