In re P.S.

BACKGROUND

On February 27, 2020, the juvenile court declared mother’s three older children dependents of the court due to severe, ongoing domestic violence their father perpetrated against mother in their presence. It ordered the children to remain in mother’s custody with family maintenance services.1 On July 19, 2022, the court declared mother’s youngest child a dependent on similar grounds, including that mother had continued to allow father access to the home where she resided with all four children and that father continued to engage in domestic violence against mother in the children’s presence. On September 29, 2022, the Alameda County Social Services Agency (Agency) removed all four children from mothers’ custody on a protective custody warrant and placed them into foster care. On October 3, 2022, it filed a supplemental petition alleging the parents had been in continued contact with each other and father had been in contact with the children, despite both a domestic violence restraining order and the juvenile court order limiting father’s access to the children. The petition alleged that mother had disclosed to him the confidential location of her safe house shelter,…