Foster kids stuck with state workers: Perry email

Those internal emails from Gov. Rick Perry's office, saved from the shredder by a pesky citizen activist, continue to make news. The AP, after combing through some of the messages, has just broken a story about a "disturbing" trend at Texas Child Protective Services.

Agency honchos said in a legislative hearing last week that CPS had made "great progress" in curtailing the practice of foster kids sleeping in government offices. But internal emails cited by the AP give another side to the story: the number of children being supervised overnight at shelters by CPS workers has gone up.

The internal e-mails from Perry's office were obtained by open records activist John Washburn. The Milwaukee man has been fighting since November against the governor's policy of destroying electronic messages every seven days. Washburn got the first batch of records last week. 

-- Jay Root