A Johnson County District Court judge chastised the Kansas Department for Children and Families for discriminating against a lesbian couple who wanted to adopt, a court ruling shows, an official finding that echoes claims of unequal treatment from other couples.
In a scathing 2013 decision, Judge Kathleen Sloan removed a then 2-year-old boy from state custody after finding DCF had gone to extraordinary measures to create a case against a lesbian woman who wanted to adopt the foster child she had cared for since birth.