Foster care scandal deepens: 'Every single staff person has a criminal record'

Foster care scandal deepens: 'Every single staff person has a criminal record' | OregonLive.com:

Back in February 2009, the head of Oregon's child welfare programs emailed her boss with worries about Portland foster care provider Give Us This Day.

Infant death cited as another foster care failing

Infant death cited as another foster care failing - The Donaldson Adoption Institute:

An infant in foster care died five days after arriving in a home that caseworkers had never inspected, according to a court monitor’s report.

British police woman demands New York return baby

British police woman demands New York return baby - Yahoo News:

New York (AFP) - A British police officer has gone to court in New York, demanding the return of her baby who was given to an LGBT activist foster mother after he was left alone in a hotel.

Movement To Provide the Poor with Access to Lawyers in Civil Cases Takes Hold in Connecticut

Movement To Provide the Poor with Access to Lawyers in Civil Cases Takes Hold in Connecticut - Hartford Courant:

HARTFORD – Unable to afford a rent increase, Anthony Culver fell behind on his payments and ended up one recent Tuesday standing before a judge in a Hartford courthouse, struggling to articulate his case without a lawyer.

Why the Child Protective Services Social Worker Isn’t Helping You

Why the Child Protective Services Social Worker Isn’t Helping You | Parents Rights Blog:

Child Protective Services social workers may act friendly but often turn rude, some even lie in court to take children from their parents.

Sourced through Scoop.it from:fightcps.com

Social worker arrested over Dyess toddler death

Social worker arrested over Dyess toddler death:

Another Texas state employee has been implicated in the 2012 Dyess Air Force Base case in which three sisters were found neglected, including a 22-month-old who died.

NH HB 1166-FN-AN ACT appointing personal representatives for persons who had founded petitions before the house committee on redress of grievances.

http://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_Status/billText.aspx?id=595&txtFormat=html

HOUSE BILL 1166-FN

AN ACT appointing personal representatives for persons who had founded petitions before the house committee on redress of grievances.

Note:Extremely important Bill. Recommendations of the Redress Grievance Committee pertaining to my daughter's Founded Petition were:the Committee believes this matter should be thoroughly investigated with a view to revisiting the decision to returning the child to the custody of relatives or its actual mother. 

And I don't want to hear, the child would be traumatized by taking her from the family she's been with for the last ten year's. What about ALL the children taken from their Biological families? They're traumatized, but the State thinks nothing about taking them!

SPONSORS: Rep. Brewster, Merr. 21

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

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ANALYSIS

This bill requires the appointment of a non-bar attorney to act as a personal representative for persons who were determined to have founded petitions by the house committee on redress of grievances.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

16-2396

10/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

AN ACT appointing personal representatives for persons who had founded petitions before the house committee on redress of grievances.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1  Appointment of Personal Representatives; House Committee on Redress of Grievances.  The speaker of the house of representatives shall within 90 days of this act appoint a personal representative, from a list of qualified non-bar attorneys, to act on behalf of persons whose petitions were determined by the house committee on redress of grievances to be founded in order to allow the petitioner to pursue the legislative remedies contained in the report of the committee.  Any cost shall be paid from the legislative branch budget.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.

LBAO

16-2396

11/5/15

1166-FN - FISCAL NOTE

AN ACT appointing personal representatives for persons who had founded petitions before the house committee on redress of grievances.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The Legislative Branch states this bill, as introduced, may have an indeterminable impact on state expenditures in FY 2016 and each year thereafter.  This bill will have no fiscal impact on county and local expenditures or state, county, and local revenue.

METHODOLOGY:

The Legislative Branch states this bill requires the appointment of a non-bar attorney to act as a personal representative for persons determined to have founded petitions by the house committee on redress of grievances.  The house committee on redress of grievances was discontinued as of November 5, 2015.  This bill may increase state expenditures by an indeterminable amount.  The Legislative Branch states any costs arising from this bill, which are unknown at this time,  shall be paid from the legislative branch budget.