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Invisible Children Named to Feedspot’s Top 52 Child Abuse Blogs

Feedspot has named Invisible Children one of the Top 52 Child Abuse Blogs of 2026. Twenty-one years of writing about child protection every week, and a reason the archive matters more now than it did a year ago: the public record is going quiet.

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Public Records (the mystery of child abuse and child protection)

My story is triggered by a graphic demonstration of malfeasance by a public servant (Harper’s Magazine article below) and my response to conversations with Brandon Stahl at the Star Tribune and a former administrator at Hennepin County.  Both told me how inaccessible important child protection public records become when someone decides for no good reason to…