{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://beatty.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/beatty-brown-and-wyden-request-investigation-into-events-leading-up-to-the-death-of-ma-khia-bryant", "Beatty, Brown, and Wyden Request Investigation Into Events Leading Up to the Death of Ma\u2019Khia Bryant", "2021-06-01", "2021", "2021-06", "Democrat", "House", "OH", "Joyce Beatty", "B001281", "beatty.house.gov", "beatty", "https://beatty.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014 U.S. Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (OH-03), U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (OH), and U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (OR) are requesting an investigation into the events prior to the tragic death of 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant on behalf of her parents Paula Bryant and Myron Hammonds.\n\nBefore she was tragically shot to death by a police officer responding to a domestic dispute call, Bryant spent two years moving between at least five different foster care homes. State-level data show that Ohio children are placed in the foster care system at a rate 10 percent higher than the national average. Despite research indicating that kinship care is beneficial to children's health, well-being, and cultural identity, the State of Ohio provides far less financial support to a child who is placed with a kinship caregiver than it gives to a child placed in a licensed foster care setting.\n\n\"The federal government has an obligation to protect the civil rights of all individuals, especially those children, young people, and parents involved in federally-funded child welfare systems,\" wrote the lawmakers. \"When a child dies in foster care, the system has failed.\" They continued, \"It failed Ma'Khia Bryant, who lived in her foster family home for about two months before a police officer shot and killed her in front of that home on April 20, 2021.\"\n\nA copy of the letter is available on Beatty's website.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:57:00Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://beatty.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/beatty-brown-and-wyden-request-investigation-into-events-leading-up-to-the-death-of-ma-khia-bryant"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.196880988776684, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}