Foster Parent Accused of Injury to a Child

Foster Parent Accused of Injury to a Child | Corpus Christi, TX | KRISTV.com |:

CORPUS CHRISTI - Police arrested a foster parent yesterday for allegedly causing serious injuries to a two-year-old girl a couple weeks ago. 46-year-old Irving Eugene Patrick is charged with injury to a child and is being held on a $175,000 bond.

Placement and reunification

Placement and reunification - Gettysburgtimes.com: Columns:

Child welfare staff is expected to empower parents and family members whenever possible including when placement of their child into foster care is necessary to ensure that child's safety.

8 Lansing-area families allege state adoption fraud

8 Lansing-area families allege state adoption fraud | Lansing State Journal | lansingstatejournal.com:

Child welfare offices in Ingham and Clinton counties are among several public and private agencies named in a lawsuit expected to be filed today alleging social workers lied to adoptive parents of special needs children about their kids’ disabilities and denied them funding available for parents of disabled children.

Program targets homeless families across US

Program targets homeless families across US | Nation & World | The Seattle Times:

Federal child welfare officials announced Wednesday they are expanding a pilot program that provides housing and case workers to homeless families most at risk for having a child enter foster care.

Texas boy kidnapped 8 years ago now seeing parents

The Associated Press: Texas boy kidnapped 8 years ago now seeing parents:

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas boy who was found in March after having been kidnapped eight years ago as an infant has begun getting to know his parents through weekly joint therapy sessions with them, attorneys and child welfare officials said Wednesday.

Department of Child Protective Services in hot seat

CACR 26 Rep Dan Itse Posted to the Keene Sentinal

CACR 26 Rep Dan Itse Posted to the Keene Sentinal | Kevin Avard for State Rep:

It is disturbing that a Governor and Justice would display such a lack of knowledge of New Hampshire constitutional heritage. Part 1, Article 37 says that the three powers of government ought to be as separate and independent as the nature of free government will admit or as is consistent with that chain of connection the binds the whole Constitution in one indissoluble fabric of unity and amity. This recognizes that the freedom is endangered when the powers are completely separate. It goes further, stating that you find the powers each branch has over the other in the Constitution itself. In fact Madison in Federalist Paper 47 recognizes this as a unique perfection compared to the other State Constitutions.

That chain of connection. From 1784 to 1966 the Legislature held complete power over the Judiciary having the power to dissolve and constitute all the Courts. The Article 73-a that gives the power to make rules for the administration of the courts was only put in place in 1978. Over the last 30 yr the court has stretched that power to absolve itself from all oversight by the people.

The important concept in this debate is that all power in government (including that of the Judiciary) comes from the people. It is the people who get to define the power of the Courts. The people only gave the power in question to the courts in 1978. With the administration of the courts that resulted in Thomas Balls self immolation on the steps of the Keene Courthouse because he could not receive justice, the people need to ask if the current distribution of power is achieving their goal.