In re I.E. CA4/2

BACKGROUND

R.S. (Father) filed this appeal following the combined jurisdiction and disposition

hearing, at which the juvenile court determined his four children, ranging in age from 3 to

16 years old (collectively, Minors) required the court’s dependency protection. (§ 300.)

R.E., the children’s mother, does not join in Father’s appeal. The court sustained

jurisdiction as to the couple’s daughters—a toddler and a teen—under section 300,

subdivisions (b)(1) [failure to protect], (d) [sexual abuse], and (j) [abuse of a sibling], and

for the two teen boys under subdivision (b)(1). The court concluded out-of-home

placement was necessary for the girls’ protection. The court ordered family maintenance

and reunification services for the parents.

DISCUSSION

Father does not contest the foregoing general orders or findings. He contends only

that, contrary to other juvenile court rulings concerning ICWA, Riverside County

Department of Public Social Services (DPSS) has failed to fulfill its duty to inquire of

1 All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code unless otherwise indicated.

2 specific, known, extended maternal and paternal relatives…