Texas social workers to petition Texas Supreme Court for right to work after lifetime ban

Last Thursday, the Fifteenth Court of Appeals dismissed a case filed by Katherin Youniacutt and Tammy Thompson, two Texas grandmothers with master’s degrees who want to be social workers. The case challenged the constitutionality of a 2019 law creating a lifetime ban on working in several healthcare occupations, including social work, based upon convictions decades in the past.