State employees union requests police protection for Vermont DCF workers

State employees union requests police protection for Vermont DCF workers | Local News - WPTZ Home:

MONTPELIER, Vt. —The union representing most Vermont state employees is asking the Legislature to address the security threat social workers at the Department for Children and Families now face.

Mother Who Used Medical Cannabis to Treat Deadly Disease Had Her Son Taken Away, Faces 28 Years in Prison

Mother Who Used Medical Cannabis to Treat Deadly Disease Had Her Son Taken Away, Faces 28 Years in Prison | Alternet:

You don't want to be a medical marijuana patient in Kansas. You could face, arrest, prosecution, imprisonment, and the loss of your children. Just ask Shona Banda, who endured the latest chapter of her ordeal Monday.

Charlie Baker vows ‘end-to-end’ DCF reform

Charlie Baker vows ‘end-to-end’ DCF reform | Boston Herald:

Gov. Charlie Baker unveiled a slate of overhauled policies for the state’s beleaguered child welfare department yesterday, eliminating the two-tiered track that divided cases by perceived risk, mandating background checks for the first time and requiring monthly reviews of all cases.

 “Everyone gets the same attention, the same investigation, and then decisions are based on data in front of you, not on speculation.”

Is Foster Care “In the Best Interest of the Child”? Not on your Life!

Is Foster Care “In the Best Interest of the Child”?:

The philosophy of “best interest of the child” sounds so very wonderful. It must keep children safe and help them to be successful for the remainder of their lives. Taking them from horrible parents, away from the abuse/neglect and placing them with foster parents in wonderful foster homes is the true solution to one of society’s worst corruptions.

Too bad that isn't the case!

Arizona Revised Statute A.R.S.25-403. Legal decision-making; best interests of child

Fired child-welfare workers appeal court ruling

Fired child-welfare workers appeal court ruling:

From the more things change, the more they stay the same file: The fight over the firing of five child-safety workers two years ago has moved to a higher level with a filing late Thursday with the Arizona Court of Appeals.The five were abruptly put on leave, then later fired, after they were identified as being responsible for marking 6,000-plus child-abuse and neglect reports as "NI" for "not investigated."

Parents say CPS took their 3 kids away because they wanted to visit dying relative

Parents say CPS took their 3 kids away because they wanted to visit dying relative - Story | KRIV:

HOUSTON (FOX 26) - “What CPS is doing to these parents is wrong,” said attorney Julie Ketterman.The Giwa’s turned to FOX 26 last May after their then 19-month-old son Ali was taken into protective custody by CPS.

Fired Miami social worker gets 1 1/2 years in prison for extorting families of refugee children

Fired Miami social worker gets 1 1/2 years in prison for extorting families of refugee children | Miami Herald:



Leslie Rubero Padilla Handout
As a newly hired employee for a Miami social services agency, Leslie Rubero Padilla’s job was to reunite unaccompanied refugee children with their parents or legal guardians in the United States.

She was supposed to charge the families only for transportation, such as airfare. But authorities say Rubero shook down more than a dozen of them by insisting they had to send her additional money or the reunification with their children would be delayed — or, worse, they would be deported back to their native country in Central America.

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