Chuck and Judy Cox will join Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, in a news conference and hearing Thursday in Olympia, with the purpose of exploring the serious problems within Child Protective Services and offer solutions to actions that may cause children harm.

Attorneys for the Cox family, Anne Bremner and Steve Downing, also will be in attendance.

“CPS needs to directly hear from the public,” Roach said.

A public comment period will be held after the conference.

“At the end of the meeting the department will be presented with ideas for change,”

Roach said.

“Everyone in the room will have a story to tell. We are going to ask them, in short comment, what changes should be made in the way the department does business,” said Roach.