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It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. -- Dick Cheney
Alabama CPS News Archive
Alabama News Coverage
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A decent start for foster kids
U.S. Department of Justice studies show about 20 percent of prisoners had been abused or neglected as children.
Carefully constructed surveys of inmates reflecting on their past suggest as many as 70 percent may have experienced some form of neglect or abuse as children.
The Birmingham News (AL)
May 27, 2007
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States use GPS-enabled devices to enhance social worker safety
Mississippi and Alabama have given GPS tracking devices to social workers. The devices are embedded in cell phones. If a dangerous situation arises, workers can press a panic button on the phone to call for help.
Mississippi has issued GPS-equipped cell phones to 450 field workers. The phones can also be used to take photos of children and their home environments and record audio field notes that can be uploaded to the state's caseworker database.
ZD New Government
March 21, 2007
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Families Protest at MPD Over Police Custody Deaths
by Chris Holmes
The protestors say police are covering up facts, and in one case, understating just how much physical force they used when they arrested the late Perry Simmons.
The facts in Perry Simmons' case seem cut and dried. Police arrested Simmons after a neighborhood fight that left furniture shattered outside his door. "He was tasered five times, that's what they're not saying. He was also maced, his eye was beaten out and he was dragged on his face," his widow said.
WSFA (AL)
December 6, 2006
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All government agencies much obey the law but it's up to citizens to know the law and insist that all agencies following it. Read Alabama laws for yourself.
Legislature.state.al.us
September 9, 2006
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Once Woeful, Alabama Is Model in Child Welfare
by Erik Eckholm
As a mother, Stephanie Harris seemed hopeless. She was 29 and a determined crack addict back in 1993, when she was sent to prison for neglecting her six children, including infant twins.
The authorities had little choice, she now agrees, but to give custody of her children to relatives. If history were the guide, in Alabama or perhaps any other state, Ms. Harris might never have regained her children, child welfare officials here say. More likely, the children would have been shuffled among relatives and foster homes.
The New York Times
August 20, 2005
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Once Woeful, Alabama Is Model in Child Welfare
by Erik Eckholm
Alabama has more than quadrupled its spending on child welfare since 1990 as part of a sweeping transformation of its system.
As a mother, Stephanie Harris seemed hopeless. She was 29 and a determined crack addict back in 1993, when she was sent to prison for neglecting her six children, including infant twins. The authorities had little choice, she now agrees, but to give custody of her children to relatives.
nytimes.com
August 20, 2005
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