[mdesi]

Again, I can only speak for my state, but my friends who adopted through CPS all met the children prior to bringing them to their homes. They were given details prior to meeting them about their situations. None have ever been given a video - that could be due to protection rights of the child, though. Children can't be filmed w/o legal guardians' permission. The state may be hesitant to do that due to children's privacy rights.

TX's photolistings actually have a lot of information to them when I viewed them. This site has a link to the photolisting, which are likely to out of date, but should give you some insight into the level of information that the state gives out.