{"id":65166,"date":"2026-04-23T17:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/santa-clara-county-workers-put-on-leave-amid-child-welfare-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:30:15","slug":"santa-clara-county-workers-put-on-leave-amid-child-welfare-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/santa-clara-county-workers-put-on-leave-amid-child-welfare-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clara County workers put on leave amid child welfare crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Santa Clara County employees are on leave and state officials are tightening their grip as another death in the county\u2019s child welfare system has prompted calls for criminal accountability. The alleged sexual assault and killing of 2-year-old Jaxon Juarez \u2014 who the Department of Family and Children\u2019s Services placed in the home of a cousin with a criminal record of child endangerment \u2014 marks the third high-profile child death under Santa Clara County\u2019s watch in three years. Eight county employees connected to Juarez\u2019s case file were placed on leave between April 8 and April 16. County Executive James Williams&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/santa-clara-county-workers-put-on-leave-amid-child-welfare-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Santa Clara County employees are on leave and state officials are tightening their grip as another death in the county\u2019s child welfare system has prompted calls for criminal accountability. The alleged sexual assault and killing of 2-year-old Jaxon Juarez \u2014 who the Department of Family and Children\u2019s Services placed in the home of a &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}