Lebanon County has spent over $112,000 since November 2025 on attorneys hired to defend its Children & Youth Services agency in an investigation launched by the district attorney’s office last fall.
Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf announced last October her department was investigating CYS for what she called “past and ongoing instances of inaction and/or negligence on behalf of LCCYS caseworkers, which resulted in death and serious injuries to multiple children.”
A few weeks later, county commissioners formally hired at their Nov. 6 meeting the Pittsburgh law firm Tucker Arensberg to “represent the Agency and potentially staff involved with the case.”…