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In 1990, 2.7 million children were reported abused and neglected. Two-thirds of these reports (including anonymous phone calls to "hot lines") were not substantiated. Oregon CPS News Archive
Oregon News Coverage
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Oregon Takes Aim at Racial Disparities in Foster Care System
by Chris Lehman
Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski says he wants to end racial imbalances in the state's foster care system.
The rate of Native American and African American children in foster care far outpaces the general population. Kulongoski says that's why he signed an executive order Monday that creates a Task Force on Foster Care.
OPB News
January 5, 2009
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Child (or agency) Protection?
by Rich Rigney
The internal paranoia that a "Cover-Your-Agency" (CYA) mentality creates has become so pervasive that most caseworkers and supervisors are determined not to make any decision that might jeopardize their career... and the children are afterthoughts.
It has become undeniable that despite many saintly foster parents, the government makes a poor parent. The research shows unequivocally that CPS should be loathe to remove kids from their homes because, in most cases, there is nowhere better to put them.
AFRA
November 17, 2008
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Foster father convicted in Ore. girl's death
PORTLAND -- A Multnomah County jury found a foster father guilty of manslaughter for failing to seek medical care for a 2-year-old girl.
Keyana Bravo-Hamilton had been living with Armando Moreno-Garcia and his wife for less than three months when her lifeless body was brought to a Gresham hospital in September 2006.
Oregon Live
October 30, 2008
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Man denies he beat toddler to death
by Sanne Specht
The second of two adults implicated in the beating death of 2-year-old Caleb David Hearne appeared in Jackson County Circuit Court Tuesday to faces charges of first-degree criminal mistreatment.
Bruce Ryan Satterlee, 28, sat before Judge Patricia Crain in the first day of what is expected to be a two-day bench trial. Caleb's mother, Trisha Marie Torresan, 25, in March pleaded guilty to first-degree criminally negligent homicide and first-degree criminal mistreatment. She was sentenced to 3 1/2-years in prison.
Mail Tribune
September 17, 2008
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Our grandchildren were stolen by DHS and adopted away from us!
by John Buethe
This is not an isolated incident, it happens all across our country. Our grandchildren we stolen by DHS and adopted away from us!
We are just not understanding why it is that a grandmother known as Rose Lucas can get the attention of a state Senator, who helped her to get her grandchildren back from DHS. Yes, we don't know the circumstances of her case but we do know the facts of ours.
National Writers Syndicate
August 20, 2008
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Parental Rights Organizations Across the Nation Will Encroach on U.S. Capitol for Civil Rights Event
Children's and Parent's Rights organizations from across the nation are scheduled to encroach on Washington DC this August 15th & 16th at the Upper Senate Park.
They say they are doing it because government policies do not reflect what is truly best for children and good parents. "Where we have a government that thinks it has the apparent authority to confiscate children at will, as we can see from the recent issues in Texas earlier this year, something needs to be done." Holland stated.
Salem News
July 2, 2008
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Oregon Legislature Continues to Erode the Fourth Amendment
by Jim Kouri
In 2000, Oregon voters amended the State Constitution by approving the Oregon Property Protection Act of 2000. That amendment increased the number of restrictions placed on state and local law-enforcement agencies to forfeit private property.
According to law enforcement and government officials, this modification of Measure 53 would remove some of the restrictions placed on civil forfeiture of property that is confiscated by cops during major drug raids and terrorism cases.
News With Views
June 2, 2008
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Expose DHS-CPD, Part III
by Jenifer Saroian
My ever increasing email has come to include the names of women who have actually died (Pamela Gaston) in the effort to effect a change in the broken, abusive practices of DHS-CPD.
I am humbled by the experience and efforts made by those who have gone before me; those who have given years of broken hearted effort for their children and their sisters. The strong, battle weary, women who are still without justice, in spite of their strength and courage.
Salem-News
May 3, 2008
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DHS-CSD Expose Part II
by Jenifer Saroian
I DO NOT support the presumption that DHS is all bad, or has no place in our society. If you are a child abuser, you deserve to have your children removed from your custody.
If you are a parent that needs education to improve your parenting skills, I want you to get that education. If you are so ill that you can not adequately parent, I want you to get the help you need and deserve (which does not include punishment by DHS, but help).
Salem-News
May 3, 2008
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Expose - DHS Children's Protective Services Division
by Jenifer Saroian
DHS often requests that clients bring in, or sign releases for their clients' medical records. If the existing medical records do not support the allegations made by DHS, they routinely bring in their own psychiatrists.
ese psychiatrists are paid an average of $2,000.00 by DHS (aka Oregon tax payers) for each psychiatric evaluation (psych eval). These evaluations do not include reviewing any of the existing medical documentation that the client has already paid for.
Salem-News
May 3, 2008
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Expose: DHS-CPD, Part IV
by Jenifer Saroian
In my last three guest pieces, I touched on several ways in which DHS-CPD, and their affiliates, have violated State and Federal laws.
Violations include failure to adequately investigate allegations that initially bring a family to the attention of DHS...
Salem-News
May 3, 2008
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Walgreens Fouls up on Prescription Order
by W. Scott Jorgensen
On January 29, a man from my home town of Grants Pass, Oregon made the news after receiving the wrong medications from a Walgreens pharmacy.
What made the story interesting is that the pills weren't for him, 45-year-old Michael Rae. They were for his stepdaughter-to-be, Alesha Rose, who is all of four years old.
News With Views (OR)
February 11, 2008
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Toddler zapped by stun gun
Video Report
A 24-year-old man is sentenced to 4 years in jail for using a high-voltage stun gun on his 18-month-old son.
Live Leak (OR)
January 28, 2008
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Oregon Human Services: Today's Gestapo?
by Neal Feldman
No wonder Gestapo CPS continues to get away with the attacks on families that it constantly perpetrates.
Is it in a child's best interests to always be placed in a family that is more affluent? If so then all children of families on welfare or in the lower income brackets are up for grabs to any parents who want to adopt them if these adoptive parents are more affluent than the family the child is currently with. That would be an extremely perilous road to start down.
Salem News
November 17, 2007
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DHS report finds high numbers of children abused, neglected
by Julia Silverman
SALEM -- More than 12,000 Oregon children were confirmed victims of abuse or neglect last year, a 7 percent increase from 2005 and the highest number in a decade, according to a report released Monday by the Department of Human Services.
The state received 60,746 reports of suspected abuse and neglect during 2006. Of the confirmed cases, the report said parents were typically the culprits and the abusive behavior could most often be traced to alcohol and drug abuse.
The Oregonian (OR)
June 25, 2007
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Smith introduces Safe Babies Act for foster care children
In an effort to protect infants and toddlers in foster care, Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) has introduced the Safe Babies Act of 2007.
Specifically, the legislation builds upon the innovative work being conducted in juvenile courts around the country, including Oregon. The bill authorizes funding for juvenile courts to create "Court Teams" for the integrated handling of infant and toddler abuse and neglect cases in the foster care system.
Bend Weekly News (OR)
February 23, 2007
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Oregon - State of Unaccountability
by Wilbur and Pamela Gaston
In 1999, the Oregon Attorney General Hardy Meyers gave an opinion filed in federal court that Oregonians do not have the right to protect themselves if they are the victims of criminal abuse, fraud or abuse of authority by civil servants and authorities.
Mr. Meyers, through assistant Attorney General Cynthia Botsois, also stated that parents have no legal right to stand in the court for the protection of their children when the children are being knowingly abused in State custody, even though their parental rights have not been terminated by the courts.
A Voice for Children
February 23, 1999
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