San Diego County Health & Human Services Agency v. Stephanie V.

Stephanie V. appeals following the dispositional hearing in the dependency case of her daughter N.V. and son A.V. (together, the children). Stephanie contends the juvenile court erred by excluding evidence regarding the refusal of the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (the Agency) to grant placement approval of the home of maternal grandmother Christy H. Stephanie concludes the court erred by denying her request that the children be placed with Christy. 1 We affirm.

BACKGROUND

In December 2009 the Agency filed dependency petitions for one-month-old A.V. (§ 300, subd. (b)) and one-year-old N.V. (§ 300, subd. (j)). The *28 petitions alleged A.V. had five fractured ribs and associated pleural effusion, injuries ordinarily not sustained absent a parent’s unreasonable or neglectful acts or omissions. The children were detained in Polinsky Children’s Center, then with a nonrelative extended family member and in a foster home.

On December 15, 2009, the day the children were detained and six days before the petition was filed, Christy, Stephanie and the children’s father, Kurt V, asked that Christy be considered for placement. On December 16 the Agency found…