P.W. v. Kansas Department of Social & Rehabilitation Services

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• holding SRS cannot avoid liability under the KTCA for placing a juvenile in a facility with another juvenile who SRS should have known had violent and sexually devient propensities
• considering public duty doctrine as applied to identical language in statutory antecedent to K.S.A. 2020 Supp. 38-2230
• identifying “a duty owed to the plaintiff’ as one of the elements of a Kansas negligence claim
• state regulatory agencies did not owe special duty to protect children in state-licensed daycare centers from abuse
• no duty of State to prevent child abuse in private, licensed child care center because State had not created the peril and special relationship did not exist
• \A duty owed to the public may be narrowed into a special duty owed to an individual . . . .\

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