In re Skyla G. CA2/1

BACKGROUND

In March 2020, Mother tested presumptively positive for amphetamines and methamphetamines at the hospital when she gave birth to Skyla. The record indicates Skyla also tested presumptively positive for these substances. Mother admitted to methamphetamine use during her pregnancy. Mother informed hospital staff that she lived with Skyla’s maternal grandmother, and she “ha[d] the support of” the maternal grandmother, as well as Skyla’s maternal aunt and uncles. A couple days after Skyla’s birth, Mother consented to DCFS’s removal of Skyla from her 3 care. DCFS placed Skyla in a foster home. DCFS stated in its Detention Report that ICWA “does or may apply.” A DCFS social worker interviewed Mother on March 19, 2020, and Mother reported “her maternal great grandmother

2 We include here only the facts related to the issue on appeal: the juvenile court’s and DCFS’s compliance with California law implementing ICWA. 3 Skyla’s father was not identified during the proceedings reflected in the record before us.

3 [Skyla’s great-great-grandmother] is Choctaw Indian and currently lives on a reservation in Oklahoma.” The same day, the social worker also interviewed Skyla’s maternal…