ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) - As Georgia’s foster care system remains overburdened, a three-month long CBS46 investigation uncovered children living in Fulton County offices for weeks to months at a time.

But the investigation also revealed instances of drugs, children running away, stealing, fighting workers and each other, conditions which seemingly stem from a practice with little oversight.

“It’s just incompetency on the state’s part because this whole situation is just f**ked,” an Atlanta police officer can be heard on body camera while responding to a Fulton County office of the Department of Family and Children Services (DFACS).

A DFCS case worker replies, “It is. It really is.”

The February footage is just a part of the records obtained by CBS46 Investigates which exposed a pattern of chaos at county DFACS offices this year:

• “We got a fight going on up here,” a DFACS worker yelled during a 911 call.
• In another incident, a frantic DFACS worker tells dispatch, “She hit me in my face; my lip is bleeding.”
• “It’s already bad enough y’all got us here,” a child in DFACS custody complained in a 911 call.
• “Damn,” a South Fulton Police officer exclaimed, while surveying the living conditions of children located at a Fulton DFACS office in College Park.

From the police who respond to calls at the offices; to the teens housed there; and the staff who say they were ill-equipped, Fulton DFACS offices were repeatedly turned into homes, offices inspectors confirm were unfit for living...

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