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Deaths of 3 children draw foster care scrutiny from Abbott :: WRAL.com

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is putting more scrutiny on the troubled Texas foster care system following the deaths of three children this year who were under state supervision.

Abbott on Wednesday ordered the Department of Family and Protective Services to enforce face-to-face visits between caseworkers and children and develop new screening methods for foster placement. Read more at http://www.wral.com/deaths-of-3-children-draw-foster-care-scrutiny-from-abbott/14538813/#ZLoerqbcxiIzvQpg.99

wral.com

March 25, 2015

10-day-old baby taken by CPS, lawsuit filed

The League of United Latin American Citizens filed a federal lawsuit on Feb. 6 against Child Protective Services, alleging the department abused its power.

LULAC said that CPS took a 10-day-old baby away from its mother because of alleged drug use. The woman and baby did not test positive for drugs, but CPS still took the baby away.

ksat.com

March 7, 2015

LA County Kidnapped Unvaccinated Children Without Warrant, Forced to Pay 80K To Parents | Natural Cures Not Medicine

The Board of Supervisors for Los Angeles County have agreed to pay the parents of two children $800,000 after a sheriff's deputy and accompanying social workers forcibly removed them.

In their lawsuit, Sebastian Xoss and Mirtha Lopez accused the county of the "baseless, unreasonable, and unlawful" removal of their 6-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son from the hotel where they were staying on Feb. 10, 2011. They had gone to the hotel in part to escape suspected abuse of the daughter by a relative of Lopez, according to the lawsuit.

naturalcuresnotmedicine.com

March 7, 2015

Judge delays ruling in Indian child welfare lawsuit

Attorneys for several Native American tribes and families that are suing South Dakota say they need to see records of a circuit court judge's conversations to show how he ordered fellow judges to handle child custody hearings.

The attorneys for the Oglala Sioux and Rosebud Sioux tribes and several Native American parents contended during a hearing Thursday that 7th Circuit Judge Jeff Davis must reveal how he advised fellow judges to conduct 48-hour child custody hearings, the Rapid City Journal reported.

argusleader.com

March 6, 2015

South Dakota Foster Care Scandal: Lakota Children Sexual Abuse Case Covered up by Attorney General

We have previously reported about what some in South Dakota are calling a "Shocking Genocide Against Native Americans by Abducting Their Children."

Listen to Attorney Daniel Sheehan of the Lakota People's Law Project explain how the Department of Social Services in South Dakota makes up 53% of the entire state budget every year by removing Lakota Native Americans from their families and placing them into the foster care system.

medicalkidnap.com

February 24, 2015

Bill to Block National License Plate Tracking Program Passes

A bill passed by the Virginia House today would put strict limitations on the use of Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) by law enforcement in the state, putting significant roadblocks in the way of a federal program.

Introduced by Senators Peterson and Black, Senate Bill 965 (SB965) reads, in part: any information collected from a license plate reader shall only be retained for seven days and shall not be subject to any outside inquiries or internal usage except for the investigation of a crime or a report of a missing person.

blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com

February 20, 2015

UPDATED: Federal Court Issues 'Blistering' Ruling Against San Diego Child Protective Services

A United States District Judge this week issued a "blistering" Order against San Diego County Child Protective Services workers, and their employer, the County of San Diego, for CPS's unwarranted removal of the two children of Joanna and Steven Swartwood.

"Plaintiffs filed this lawsuit after D.S. and R.S. were removed from their home without a warrant and subjected to medical exams, which included a urine test and examination of their genitalia, without notice to Steven or Joanna."

weightiermatter.com

February 6, 2015

To Protect His Son, A Father Asks School To Bar Unvaccinated Children

A 6-year-old can't be vaccinated against measles because he is recovering from leukemia. He faces a higher risk because parents at his California school have chosen not to vaccinate their kids.

Now Krawitt and his wife, Jodi, have emailed the district's superintendent, requesting that the district "require immunization as a condition of attendance, with the only exception being those who cannot medically be vaccinated."

npr.org

January 27, 2015

Homeschooler Denied Cosmetology School Admission

A couple of weeks ago, a graduate of a church school's home instruction program asked Home School Legal Defense Association to intervene when she was denied admission to the cosmetology program of the Paul Mitchell School in Huntsville.

The admissions official was insisting that the applicant provide verification that the church school from which she graduated was approved by the Alabama Department of Education.

hslda.org

January 26, 2015

Youth and Family Services to help state find homes for foster children

ENID, Okla. - Youth and Family Services of Enid will begin helping the state of Oklahoma find homes for hundreds of foster children.

In August 2013, DHS privatized foster care and selected four contractors, three from Kansas and one from Oklahoma, to find foster homes. After a year, the two agencies responsible for rural Oklahoma have recruited less than 40 percent of the number of foster-care homes needed.

enidnews.com

January 25, 2015

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