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State Supreme Court will not hear Santa Clarita family's tribal custody appeal
by Hailey Branson-Potts and Joseph Serna
The California Supreme Court will not hear an appeal from a Santa Clarita foster family to return a girl to them after she was relocated to live with extended Native American relatives in Utah.
The court rejected attorney Lori Alvino-McGill's request without comment Wednesday, leaving her and her clients, Rusty and Summer Page and their children, with only one final avenue left to try: the U.S. Supreme Court.
latimes.com
March 31, 2016
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Charter school shuttered days after school begins
by Morgan Jacobsen
Two charter schools will close permanently after the Utah State Charter School Board proposed last week to terminate the schools, which were put on probation early this year for budget, enrollment and academic problems.
Alianza Academy, a K-8 charter school in West Valley City and South Salt Lake, and the Wasatch Institute of Technology in Murray both decided not to appeal the board's proposal. Between them, the two charters were set to enroll about 400 students this year. Alianza began classes Wednesday, and the bell will ring for the last time at 3 p.m. Friday. Wasatch Institute will not open Monday as originally scheduled.
ksl.com
August 21, 2015
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Land Preservation Battles in Utah
by Rick Cohen
The entire history of land preservation for national monuments in the West has been fraught with controversy, virtually since President Abraham Lincoln authorized the creation of Yosemite National Park in 1864.
In Utah, south of the Canyonlands National Park, there is an area of ancient cliff dwellings in a region of sacred and historic value to the Navajo Nation. The Navajos have proposed that Congress establish the Diné Bikéyah National Conservation Area, which would protect 1.9 million acres from development. Utah's congressional delegation apparently hasn't been particularly rapid with its response, so the nonprofit Utah Diné Bikéyah has lobbied Washington to establish the area as a national monument. That is within the purview of President Obama, who can establish national monuments unilaterally.
nonprofitquarterly.org
May 29, 2014
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Technology Community Comes Out Swinging to Benefit Utah Foster Care
Members and friends of the technology community will come out swinging on October 18th. The Utah IAMCP and title sponsor MS Cloud Services are sponsoring a Say Farewell to Summer on the Fairways benefit golf tournament.
Utah Foster Care helps provide support and services to fostering families to care for the estimated 2600 Utah children in foster care. Set to take place at the popular Old Mill Golf Course on Wasatch Boulevard, the event will be at the door to the Cottonwood Canyons. The venue provides a spectacular backdrop for the golfers and sponsors to enjoy. A late season golf event, the Utah IAMCP wants to help ensure that more children needing fostering get cared for in time to have a good holiday season.
digitaljournal.com
October 4, 2013
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Mission to stop child sex trafficking
The dangerous of vicious cycle of child sex trafficking is happening in Utah and you may not even realize it. Any child can be a target of sex traffickers, but the ones most vulnerable are those in child welfare and foster care systems.
Madi Palmer, a 17-year-old from Holladay, Utah, is part of a national movement called "Backyard Broadcast" to stop the sexual abuse of children after a scary experience. Palmer is a senior at Cottonwood High School and spends her time raising awareness about child sex trafficking. "Most people don't realize it's happening in America, let alone Utah and in our schools and communities," she said.
abc4.com
September 21, 2013
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Frozen pomegranate kernels recalled over possible hepatitis A link
by Dawn House
The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food on Monday announced a statewide voluntary recall of Woodstock Frozen Organic Pomegranate Kernels.
The kernels could be contaminated with hepatitis A virus, based on an ongoing investigation by the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control.
sltrib.com
July 2, 2013
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Mom arrested, baby taken to child protective services after drug raid
by Brittany Green-Miner and Scott McKane
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah - A Cottonwood Heights woman is facing drug distribution and child abuse charges after police say they found a baby with a soiled diaper and three bottles of curdled milk in her apartment during a drug raid.
Residents in a Cottonwood Heights neighborhood say they started complaining about a basement apartment weeks ago. Detectives started investigating, allegedly purchased methamphetamine from 23-year-old Tanisha Jones and gathering enough evidence for a search warrant.
fox13now.com
June 16, 2013
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Whole Foods Finally Has a Real Competitor
by Marc Courtenay
Frankly, I seldom shop WFM. The main reason is because there's a locally owned and operated business in my community that sells only natural and organic food and other supplies.
NGVC was built on the premise that consumers should have access to affordable, high-quality foods and dietary supplements, with nutritional guidance to help them support their own health. The family-run store has grown into a successful national chain with locations across Colorado, Texas, Utah, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Missouri, New Mexico, Montana, Kansas, Idaho, Nebraska, Arizona and Oregon. Altogether, the company has 1,800 employees.
thestreet.com
April 8, 2013
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National beekeeper of year focuses on dying bees
LOGAN, Utah (AP) - A Utah man is trying to use his recognition as this year's national beekeeper of the year to focus attention on a major threat to the industry: colony collapse disorder.
Darren Cox of Cache County, who has 5,000 hives in Utah, California and Wyoming, received the award from the American Honey Producers Association earlier this year.
usnews.com
April 6, 2013
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Three mountain lions attack pets
by Caroline Kingsley
Two pets were attacked by mountain lions early Tuesday morning in Woodland. One pet was found dead and another injured less than a mile away.
The incidents are still under investigation, and information about what type of pets were attacked has not yet been released. An officer from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) responded to the report and was able to quickly track one of the mountain lions responsible for the animal's death and euthanize it. Two more mountain lions were discovered by late morning.
parkrecord.com
January 29, 2013
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States don't often share child-abuse records. And sometimes kids like Jeanette Maples die.
by Michelle Cole
A 10-year-old girl is found dead in a footlocker in Arizona and police learn her family had been under investigation by child welfare authorities in Utah.
A teenager is murdered in Eugene, leaving a trail of questions from Sacramento to Salem about who failed to protect her. A baby spends its vital first year with a stranger in Alabama foster care while relatives in Oregon wait for word that they can raise the child.
oregonlive.com
October 27, 2012
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Utah aunt fights clock to adopt children from foster care
by Lindsay Whitehurst
Faced with the possibility her nieces and nephews will be legally cut out of her family, an Orem woman is speaking out against what she calls misleading practices by the Division of Child and Family Services.
Faced with the possibility her nieces and nephews will be legally cut out of her family, an Orem woman is speaking out against what she calls misleading practices by the Division of Child and Family Services.
sltrib.com
October 22, 2012
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Agencies perpetuate the poverty cycle rather than creating a culture of caring
by John Florez
Does anyone care? Utah has a mounting child poverty rate, and more adults are going hungry. Yet, many of our elected leaders appear not to care.
One who does care is state Sen. Stuart Reid. He wants to end child poverty by breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty, where 30 percent of Utah welfare families find themselves. For starters, he has sponsored SB37 to monitor state data on intergenerational poverty in Utah.
deseretnews.com
September 29, 2012
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Foster care transforms one autistic Utah boy
by Julia Lyon
For some autistic children in state custody, leaving their parents means finding a new home with a foster family. "The thing that made me come here is I almost burned the house down," 12-year-old Michael Chambers said recently.
He was upset that he couldn't watch TV and lit a paper airplane on fire, not thinking about the consequences. Then he tried to stomp it out and threw it in a closet, where it burned out. But it was far more than that one incident, said his mom, Melissia Chambers. He choked his younger brother, hit his older sister and hid things from his parents, even stealing from them. They couldn't control him.
sltrib.com
September 29, 2012
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Bringing them up as their own: Grandparents raising grandchildren
by Rachel Lowry
Sally Kabak will never forget the phone call from the child welfare worker telling her that her granddaughter, just 2, was having surgery. She'd swallowed a camera battery that was now leaking acid into her stomach.
Kabak and her husband, Norman, flew to New Zealand months later to pick up that granddaughter, hoping to buy the girl's mom time to get her life together. Eventually, they adopted "Lucy," as the girl became known to Kabak's readers, the pseudonym picked by her family. Lucy soon matched her peers at every level.
deseretnews.com
August 5, 2012
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State wants fewer children placed in foster care
SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah wants fewer children placed in foster care and is boosting efforts to provide better in-home services, state officials said this week.
The changes were prompted by a 2011 state legislative audit that found a 38 percent increase in statewide foster care placements over the previous decade.The same audit showed a 40 percent decrease in support for families to keep children in their own homes over the same period.
heraldextra.com
July 15, 2012
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Is Your Foster Child on Chemical Restraints?
by Martha Rosenberg
Three years ago, Mirko and Regina Ceska of Crawfordville, FLA told former Gov. Charlie Crist their two adopted 12-year-olds had been prescribed 11 pills a day, including the powerful antipsychotic Seroquel, reported the Tampa Bay Times.
Three years ago, Mirko and Regina Ceska of Crawfordville, FLA told former Gov. Charlie Crist their two adopted 12-year-olds had been prescribed 11 pills a day, including the powerful antipsychotic Seroquel, reported the Tampa Bay Times.
counterpunch.org
June 29, 2012
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DCFS tells lawmakers it wants to keep kids out of foster care
by Http://www.Sltrib.Com
State child welfare officials on Wednesday told lawmakers they are working to reverse a decade-long trend toward putting at-risk kids in foster care, instead helping families at home and saving taxpayer money.
The shift comes after a January 2011 audit found the number of children in foster care has climbed 38 percent over the last decade - opposite of national trends and possibly what's best for kids. "Our concern is that the ball has shifted away from in-home services to foster care so much that it may be more costly to taxpayers and harmful for children," Audit Supervisor Maria Stahla told lawmakers.
sltrib.com
June 21, 2012
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Relatives caring for children need more support, charity says
by Brooke Adams
For Brooke and Jon Siddoway, the years spent watching life fall apart around their two granddaughters were agonizing.
The girls were toddlers when their mother died of a drug overdose and their father, Jon's son, spiraled more heavily into his substance abuse and criminal problems. By the time the girls were ages 3 and 4, their father faced serious criminal problems, and after years of unofficially helping to parent them, the Siddoways knew they needed to intervene.
sltrib.com
May 23, 2012
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Hackers get into Utah health department records
by Josh Loftin
Health officials in Utah say 750,000 additional people, including many children, may have had personal information stolen by hackers.
Utah Department of Health spokesman Tom Hudachko (HU'-dak-ko) said Monday that about 250,000 Social Security numbers were part of the tens of thousands of stolen files, although many numbers didn't include other information. Hudachko says the victims could be Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program recipients as well as anyone whose healthcare provider submitted their information to the state for possible Medicaid coverage within the last four months.
CNS News
April 9, 2012
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Utah's gay teens get foster care support at summit
by Katie Drake
When Elizabeth Harris came out as a lesbian to her foster parents at 15, they immediately took her to the hospital to be evaluated for a mental disorder.
LGBT youth already are at greater risk for homelessness, suicide and alcohol and drug abuse, Paul said. But if they lack a strong support system while coming to terms with their sexuality, the risks rise dramatically, she said.
sltrib.com
March 10, 2012
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Inside the Secret World of the FLDS
by Jason Zasky
"Short Creek is the most lawless town in the country," says Sam Brower, author of the new book "Prophet's Prey" (Bloomsbury), which chronicles his seven-year investigation into the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints.
FLDS may be especially touchy these days, as their infamous leader-self-proclaimed prophet Warren Steed Jeffs, who has upwards of 80 wives (two dozen under the age of 16)-recently began serving a Texas sentence of life plus twenty years for sexual assault of a child and aggravated sexual assault of a child. Jeffs seems to blame the community for his imprisonment, as he's ordered his followers to do penance for their lack of righteousness by praying, fasting and refraining from all marital relations.
failuremag.com
October 22, 2011
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Stevens Prosecutor is Back Handling Corruption Cases
by David Baumann
In another sign that the Justice Department is attempting to close the books on the troubled Alaska corruption cases, a DOJ attorney who was transferred out of the Public Integrity Section following the bungled case against the late Sen. Ted Stevens.
Edward Sullivan is one of the attorneys handling the sentencing of former Republican Senate aide Trevor Blackann, the radio network reported. He also is working on a bribery case in Utah. Following the Stevens case, Sullivan and other attorneys who handled the prosecution were transferred to other DOJ sections; Williams was sent to the Office of International Affairs. However in recent months, Stevens prosecutors have reemerged as attorneys in sensitive cases.
mainjustice.com
October 18, 2011
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IFCAA Fighting State Court-Based Racketeering Announces Advances in Illinois, Georgia, PA and Utah
by MMD Newswire
The IFCAA announced that, despite the obstacle of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan representing the judges engaged in alleged racketeering enterprises they had taken on apparent judicial corruption in the Cook County Circuit Court family court.
In addition to helping provide evidence to state and federal authorities in pursuit of indictments of allegedly corrupt public officials including Mormon judges, Mannix has networked with Virginia citizens as well as Utah citizens, the latter of which have specifically called upon their Mormon GOP state legislators to launch an independent forensic audit of all Federal taxpayers' dollars coming into the State's family court-related programs.
mmdnewswire.com
September 26, 2011
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Child Identity Theft Takes Advantage Of Kids' Unused Social Security Numbers
by Gerry Smith
Every few weeks, Stephanie McManis receives a phone call from a collection agency asking for someone she never met. She recently opened a letter from a bank threatening to sue her for defaulting on a loan she never took out.
McManis, 31, says she is a victim of identity theft, a well-documented problem these days. One detail elevates her case from the typical, however: her identity was stolen when she was 12 years old. Now, nearly two decades later, she still can't separate herself from a checkered financial past created before she was old enough to drive. Utah officials have started checking a state employment database with a list of Utah children on public aid, finding "thousands" of workers using children's identities to acquire jobs, according to Utah Assistant Attorney General Richard Hamp. In one recent case, nine people were using a 9-year-old's Social Security number to gain employment, Hamp said.
huffingtonpost.com
August 21, 2011
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High-Ranking Tennessee Officials Involved in Kidnapping Cover-Up
by Annette M. Hall
Tennessee Governor, Phil Bredesen attempted to deflect blame when he recently requested the resignation of Dept. of Children's Services Commissioner, Michael J. Miller, after contempt of court charges were levied against the state.
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