Pete Buttigieg and his kids subject to CPS, police investigation after false report

In this file photo from 2023, then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (R), husband Chasten Buttigieg and their children Penelope and Gus attend the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 10, 2023 in Washington, DC. Buttigieg said his family was subject to a CPS investigation after a false report on June 26, 2026. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says he and his children were the subject of an investigation by Child Protective Services following an anonymous report that was later determined to be false. Buttigieg, who lives with his husband and their twin four-year-old children in Traverse City, Michigan detailed the experience in a Substack post on Friday, saying that a police officer and CPS worker had come to his home and notified him of an anonymous report that alleged his children were at risk. In response to the claim, Buttigieg shared that both children had to participate in forensic interviews where no family could be present. Because he was not permitted to be alone with his children until after the interviews, he added they went to stay with their grandparents, away from their fathers. "The twenty-four hours until they returned are among the darkest hours of my life," Buttigieg wrote. …