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Legal Statuses Granted for Children in Fiscal Year 2009

County Unique
Children*		 Possessory
CVS		 TMC** PMC: Not
Free for
Adoption		 PMC:
Free for
Adoption		 Adoption
Finalized		 DFPS
Responsibility Terminated***
Anderson 91 0 40 10 7 7      34
Andrews 23 0 14 0 1 1      8
Angelina 84 0 23 9 11 12      39
Aransas 56 0 30 0 5 12      20
Archer 2 0 0 0 0 0      2
Armstrong 1 0 0 0 0 1      0
Atascosa 123 0 34 8 25 33      33
Austin 27 0 9 1 4 3      15
Bailey 23 0 7 2 5 1      10
Bandera 51 0 9 2 17 17      11
Bastrop 156 0 74 3 26 33      46
Baylor 8 0 3 2 2 0      4
Bee 63 0 42 4 1 7      15
Bell 770 2 365 23 96 115      281
Bexar 3,273 0 1,316 140 681 762      823
Blanco 4 0 0 1 2 0      1
Borden 0 0 0 0 0 0      0
Bosque 11 0 6 3 0 3      1
Bowie 158 0 81 11 18 13      80
Brazoria 240 0 99 12 17 28      108
Brazos 190 0 68 16 36 53      52
Brewster 5 0 0 0 0 3      2
Briscoe 6 0 5 0 0 0      1
Brooks 24 0 6 1 3 0      14
Brown 146 0 52 1 31 46      28
Burleson 30 0 10 0 3 8      11
Burnet 94 0 32 10 14 34      20
Caldwell 118 0 37 2 27 31      36
Calhoun 10 0 0 0 1 6      3
Callahan 13 0 8 2 1 0      6
Cameron 442 0 228 54 30 32      138
Camp 53 0 22 7 1 2      26
Carson 12 0 4 0 0 4      4
Cass 72 0 41 6 12 3      36
Castro 2 0 0 0 0 0      2
Chambers 29 0 17 2 3 3      9
Cherokee 86 0 41 0 14 12      24
Childress 16 0 10 0 5 1      5
Clay 12 0 3 7 0 1      1
Cochran 8 0 1 1 1 0      6
Coke 0 0 0 0 0 0      0
Coleman 34 0 19 1 7 2      10
Collin 370 0 115 6 53 88      158
Collingsworth 7 0 4 0 0 3      0
Colorado 17 0 4 0 4 5      7
Comal 122 0 77 0 13 23      21
Comanche 17 0 1 5 6 1      4
Concho 8 0 1 0 0 2      5
Cooke 61 0 22 0 5 10      24
Coryell 142 0 68 8 19 13      64
Cottle 2 0 1 0 0 0      1
Crane 1 0 1 0 1 0      0
Crockett 9 0 2 0 3 0      4
Crosby 23 0 20 0 1 0      3
Culberson 2 0 0 0 3 0      0
Dallam 16 0 1 1 0 4      11
Dallas 2,250 34 1,053 82 270 343      883
Dawson 13 0 7 0 1 5      0
Deaf Smith 38 0 10 0 7 6      19
Delta 14 0 5 4 0 0      8
Denton 348 0 126 6 57 72      117
Dewitt 19 0 5 0 1 2      12
Dickens 4 0 2 0 2 0      0
Dimmit 40 0 12 4 14 4      6
Donley 3 0 2 1 0 0      1
Duval 35 0 8 1 4 0      23
Eastland 30 0 12 0 5 5      10
Ector 237 0 92 21 36 39      70
Edwards 0 0 0 0 0 0      0
Ellis 164 0 68 1 30 23      65
El Paso 467 0 182 28 92 56      157
Erath 42 0 14 0 5 9      17
Falls 6 0 2 0 0 1      4
Fannin 55 0 8 0 13 10      25
Fayette 63 0 28 3 14 10      21
Fisher 8 0 0 3 0 4      1
Floyd 12 0 2 5 0 2      4
Foard 1 0 0 0 0 1      0
Fort Bend 229 0 130 12 27 26      55
Franklin 11 0 3 0 3 3      3
Freestone 15 0 7 0 1 1      6
Frio 70 0 19 2 19 17      14
Gaines 22 0 9 1 1 1      14
Galveston 306 0 135 10 48 36      124
Garza 1 0 1 0 0 0      0
Gillespie 39 0 22 0 8 11      6
Glasscock 0 0 0 0 0 0      0
Goliad 2 0 0 0 1 1      1
Gonzales 30 0 2 0 6 16      8
Gray 65 0 30 5 9 8      24
Grayson 141 0 38 2 35 26      48
Gregg 217 0 82 11 59 27      56
Grimes 46 0 21 2 12 9      20
Guadalupe 79 0 34 1 10 17      25
Hale 121 0 28 4 39 15      45
Hall 3 0 0 1 0 0      2
Hamilton 17 0 12 0 1 1      3
Hansford 1 0 1 0 0 0      1
Hardeman 3 0 0 0 0 1      2
Hardin 55 0 16 8 15 7      12
Harris 4,651 3 1,943 219 911 702      1,333
Harrison 64 0 42 3 4 9      20
Hartley 1 0 0 0 0 0      1
Haskell 5 0 2 0 2 0      1
Hays 133 0 50 2 24 40      47
Hemphill 3 0 2 0 0 0      1
Henderson 222 0 97 6 39 26      83
Hidalgo 555 0 231 61 2 0      328
Hill 43 0 21 0 14 3      10
Hockley 55 0 15 5 8 7      22
Hood 40 0 12 2 6 9      14
Hopkins 73 0 31 6 8 8      26
Houston 18 0 7 2 3 3      8
Howard 104 0 46 2 29 7      34
Hudspeth 0 0 0 0 0 0      0
Hunt 217 0 104 5 39 28      79
Hutchinson 51 0 19 4 1 6      22
Irion 1 0 0 0 0 0      1
Jack 1 0 1 0 0 0      0
Jackson 19 0 7 2 9 1      7
Jasper 38 0 18 4 8 1      14
Jeff Davis 0 0 0 0 0 0      0
Jefferson 186 0 73 8 35 37      49
Jim Hogg 11 0 3 0 0 0      8
Jim Wells 115 0 41 13 3 10      54
Johnson 225 0 110 5 26 26      66
Jones 8 0 6 0 0 0      2
Karnes 7 0 4 0 0 1      5
Kaufman 131 0 51 3 20 38      39
Kendall 19 0 4 0 2 8      7
Kenedy 2 0 2 0 0 0      2
Kent 0 0 0 0 0 0      0
Kerr 162 0 59 6 40 31      40
Kimble 13 0 7 0 1 0      5
King 0 0 0 0 0 0      0
Kinney 1 0 1 0 0 0      0
Kleberg 96 0 49 6 8 14      34
Knox 4 0 3 0 0 0      1
Lamar 68 0 27 4 2 3      33
Lamb 34 0 6 8 13 1      9
Lampasas 40 0 19 2 7 10      13
Lasalle 22 0 1 0 9 6      7
Lavaca 5 0 0 0 3 2      0
Lee 41 0 19 0 6 1      20
Leon 20 0 3 2 3 1      13
Liberty 136 0 61 5 18 5      64
Limestone 41 0 20 1 8 7      12
Lipscomb 0 0 0 0 0 0      0
Live Oak 3 0 2 0 0 0      1
Llano 32 0 10 4 10 3      14
Loving 0 0 0 0 0 0      0
Lubbock 717 0 258 36 165 159      197
Lynn 0 0 0 0 0 0      0
Madison 43 0 29 0 4 3      7
Marion 17 0 9 3 2 2      2
Martin 0 0 0 0 0 0      0
Mason 8 0 4 0 0 0      7
Matagorda 28 0 12 1 3 0      13
Maverick 20 0 5 0 2 0      13
Mcculloch 19 0 1 1 3 6      8
Mclennan 327 0 99 12 63 73      105
Mcmullen 0 0 0 0 0 0      0
Medina 107 0 31 1 36 9      34
Menard 6 0 4 0 0 0      2
Midland 149 0 42 14 18 25      59
Milam 79 0 25 2 18 20      22
Mills 2 0 0 0 1 1      1
Mitchell 2 0 1 0 0 0      1
Montague 28 0 14 1 0 4      11
Montgomery 738 0 374 34 140 101      253
Moore 5 0 2 0 0 2      1
Morris 26 0 19 0 5 0      7
Motley 2 0 0 0 0 0      2
Nacogdoches 119 0 66 3 18 7      37
Navarro 106 0 22 7 29 30      27
Newton 7 0 0 0 1 0      6
Nolan 19 0 2 3 3 2      11
Nueces 582 0 319 29 61 51      188
Ochiltree 6 0 4 0 0 0      2
Oldham 3 0 2 0 0 0      1
Orange 103 0 39 8 7 12      44
Palo Pinto 44 0 13 0 15 2      15
Panola 23 0 10 2 2 1      12
Parker 67 0 21 1 11 14      26
Parmer 18 0 5 0 2 5      6
Pecos 26 0 13 0 1 3      11
Polk 99 0 34 6 19 20      36
Potter 199 0 87 17 23 29      70
Presidio 4 0 2 0 0 0      2
Rains 16 0 8 0 0 2      6
Randall 305 0 156 15 20 55      84
Reagan 9 0 1 0 1 3      4
Real 3 0 0 0 1 0      2
Red River 19 0 11 0 0 0      13
Reeves 19 0 8 3 5 0      6
Refugio 2 0 2 0 0 0      0
Roberts 0 0 0 0 0 0      0
Robertson 26 0 3 3 7 8      5
Rockwall 40 0 15 3 4 3      19
Runnels 26 0 11 4 3 2      9
Rusk 52 0 29 9 8 6      13
Sabine 3 0 0 0 1 0      2
San Augustine 4 0 1 0 0 0      4
San Jacinto 57 0 29 3 5 7      19
San Patricio 60 0 23 1 6 16      26
San Saba 9 0 0 0 0 7      2
Schleicher 9 0 0 0 1 3      5
Scurry 21 0 5 0 5 6      8
Shackelford 2 0 1 0 0 1      0
Shelby 33 0 16 4 0 5      9
Sherman 4 0 1 0 0 3      0
Smith 267 0 127 21 49 16      90
Somervell 4 0 2 0 2 0      0
Starr 57 0 37 5 0 1      25
Stephens 20 0 13 0 1 1      6
Sterling 0 0 0 0 0 0      0
Stonewall 0 0 0 0 0 0      0
Sutton 6 0 2 0 0 2      2
Swisher 3 0 0 1 1 0      1
Tarrant 1,471 25 596 80 237 282      430
Taylor 186 0 89 7 31 21      59
Terrell 3 0 3 0 0 0      0
Terry 25 0 10 0 4 5      7
Throckmorton 0 0 0 0 0 0      0
Titus 89 0 54 2 10 1      30
Tom Green 259 0 96 10 59 51      52
Travis 985 0 372 32 187 254      277
Trinity 27 0 15 0 3 3      8
Tyler 13 0 6 1 1 0      6
Upshur 93 0 62 3 11 3      39
Upton 7 0 0 2 0 0      5
Uvalde 52 1 15 0 7 14      17
Val Verde 32 0 22 1 3 1      8
Van Zandt 128 0 69 3 18 19      32
Victoria 136 0 31 23 35 30      28
Walker 56 0 31 1 4 4      29
Waller 57 0 30 4 5 17      6
Ward 13 0 10 0 2 0      2
Washington 15 0 4 1 3 3      5
Webb 338 0 111 27 74 15      143
Wharton 33 0 24 0 2 2      7
Wheeler 6 0 1 0 2 1      3
Wichita 207 0 77 15 24 32      87
Wilbarger 23 0 2 2 4 9      9
Willacy 74 0 15 27 3 2      34
Williamson 415 0 182 15 91 38      123
Wilson 10 0 6 0 1 1      4
Winkler 14 0 6 0 1 0      7
Wise 50 0 20 3 3 6      19
Wood 105 0 47 5 17 4      40
Yoakum 16 0 0 7 2 5      2
Young 22 0 7 1 0 0      15
Zapata 38 0 13 6 0 1      18
Zavala 37 0 8 6 6 0      17
Out of State 86 0 3 0 0 0**** 1
State Total 30,346 65 12,636 1,506 5,003 4,859      9,896

* Counts unique children in county of last legal status event recorded during the fiscal year.
** Includes care, custody and control.
*** Includes conservatorship not obtained
**** Out of the 4,859 children adopted during FY09, 364 were placed out of state but were counted by the last legal status county.

Note:

CVS is conservatorship
TMC is temporary managing conservatorship
PMC is permanent managing conservatorship.

This table addresses Texas Family Code §261.004, Subsection (b) (12).

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