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Here is the link describing the state liability issues and my commentary afterwards: CLICK HERE

Hundreds of angry people wanting to do a class action lawsuit have contacted me over the last couple of years. I just attended a work session with the Early Learning and Children's Services Committee and the topic of State liability with Child Protective Services. I am going to be uploading the summary of discussion on a separate page with a link. Of interest, the tort payouts have more than tripled in 2008 and 2009 with many of the payouts the result of adoptive and foster care physical and sexual abuse. The highest was over 6 million.

Comments by the legislature leads me to believe they may try to change a 1961 ruling that waived the State's sovereign immunity and may attempt to give themselves qualified or total immunity as it pertains to child protection. The last two years, DSHS payouts were approximately 26 million with 21-22 million payouts from the Children's Administration. Someone is suing and winning. Juries here in Washington State are sick of DSHS incompetance and are expressing it in large payouts.

NOW, to extended families: The courts are ignoring extended families who are DeFacto. DeFacto means that a caregiver has been a primary caretaker of a child for a minimum of six months and can prove it. DeFacto has become a popular legal avenue for the gay/lesbian community in child custody cases where the judges will take DeFacto into consideration. Here in Washington State, the judges ignore DeFacto relatives but will bend to the DeFacto same sex preference groups. This is discrimination. Just thought I would mention that. If the courts are ignoring relative DeFacto, then DeFacto relatives need to pressure the courts for change as a group. You must be able to prove that you were DeFacto so get your stuff together.

HOWEVER, if you had legal standing as a relative and were not "informal" you have standing currently in a court for a tort suit. More on this later.......

A class action means (thanks to the lioness den) that one person has filed a suit then a class action is requested because others have also been damaged. A suggestion is to find ONE very damaged extended family who had legally binding placement to start the tort then request class action for the rest who may have a gray area or two but still have a solid case. I will complete the rest and upload later.

On another issue.....many of us have been damaged because of shoddy court practices and failure to hold CPS accountable coupled with highly destructive judicial rules. I encourage all of you to read the judicial rules and become involved in the process. Here is the process as given to me today:

First, I am providing the links to the court rules, governing the process for adopting statewide court rules (GR 9) and local court rules (GR 7) both of which are on the AOC Web site:

http://www.courts.wa.gov/court_rules/?fa=court_rules.display&group=ga&set=GR&ruleid=gagr09

http://www.courts.wa.gov/court_rules/?fa=court_rules.display&group=ga&set=GR&ruleid=gagr07

A summary of the rulemaking process for state court rules is found at the following:

http://www.courts.wa.gov/court_rules/?fa=court_rules.gr9summary

When the court rules are put out for comment they are posted on this Web site as well as it the WA State Register.

Here is the link to the court rules presently pending for comment:

http://www.courts.wa.gov/court_rules/?fa=court_rules.proposed

Please note the instructions on this page explaining how and when to comment on these proposals.

Rules which have been adopted but not yet become effective may be located at:

http://www.courts.wa.gov/court_rules/?fa=court_rules.adopted

Finally, we have begun to archive the rules, which were previously published for comments and the comments received thereon.  In addition to noting when those rule changes were before the court other useful information is included here.  That information can be located at:

http://www.courts.wa.gov/court_rules/?fa=court_rules.ruleChanges

Here is the link if you wish to sign up for automatic notification of court rule changes:

http://www.courts.wa.gov/notifications/?fa=notifications.home&notgroupID=19

AS A GROUP, WE NEED TO OBJECT TO SOME OF THE JUDICIAL RULES AND MAKE A STAND TO GET THEM CHANGED

LEGISLATION SESSION HAS STARTED: SO WHY SHOULD YOU GET INVOLVED?

1. A special court designed by lawyers and judges inhibits due process of law (family court/dependency)

2. This court allows hearsay and does not hold state employees accountable 

3. The courts use psychology as a tool for the prosecution

4. They hold court in the juvenile division where only children have rights not adults

5. Although parents may get charged with a crime that removes a child, it is called "civil" crime so that legal remedies afforded by the Constitution aren't available (like a jury)

6. They use a low standard of evidence to remove and adopt out children with broad definitions of abuse and neglect so that virtually anyone can end up with their children in foster care 

7. State workers lie and are supported by their superiors and the judiciary

Don't you think you owe it to yourself to get involved?

     WATCH THE HOUSE BILLS THEY ARE TRICKY WITH "SPECIAL" PARAGRAPHS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE LISTED TOPIC AND ARE GETTING PASSED. ONE OF THEM INVOLVES SERVICES FOR ADDITIONAL CAREGIVERS THE DEPARTMENT MIGHT THINK NEEDS SERVICES AND IT IS NOT PAID FOR ON SHB 1769. IF, FOR EXAMPLE, A GRANDPARENT MIGHT BE BABYSITTING AND THE DEPT DOESN'T LIKE HIM OR HER, THEY CAN THEN DENY THE CHILD(REN) GOING HOME UNTIL THAT PARTY SUBMITS TO SERVICES OUT OF POCKET. IF THAT PERSON CAN'T AFFORD THE SERVICES THEN THE CHILDREN DON'T GO HOME. THIS WAS PASSED LAST YEAR BUT NOT BY THE DEADLINE. IT IS RESUBMITTED TO GO INTO LAW THIS YEAR


FAMILY FRIENDLY LEGISLATORS THAT YOU SHOULD GET TO KNOW BETTER are the following: Mary Roberts, Jan Angel, Larry Seaquist, Maureen Walsh, Marcie Maxwell, Phyllis Kenny, Adam Kline, Senators Hargrove, Stevens, Shin and Roach ESPECIALLY ROACH

Bills this session to look up, read, and testify on regarding family and children rights: SB 5653, SB 5654, SB 5656, SB 6416, SB 6417, SB 5811,  SB 2680, SB 6432, SB 2798  

HB 1239, HB 1944. HB 2106, HB 2107, HB 2687, HB 4644, HB 2421, HB 1031, HB 1170, HB 1337, HB 1101, HB 1161, HB 2084, HB 1607, HB 1769, HB 1375                                     

IF YOU WANT LESS GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN THE FAMILY THEN GET INVOLVED THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION. THEY ARE REALLY PULLING SOME FAST ONES AND ARE GEARING UP FOR THE PASSING OF THE UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD TREATY

Hello Everyone!

This is a personal invitation to attend a church service on family preservation every Sunday at 9 a.m. Pacific time on Blog Talk Radio with a call in number 347-324-3756 on website http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pastor-jan-smith

We will be exploring God's plan for the family and different stressors dividing families and children. Topics may include divorce, parenting, child protection, anger management, parental alienation, psychology trends, public schools, chemical dependency and a host of other issues affecting the family.

I hope you decide to join us on this journey to examine current public policy trends and the spiritual implications of those trends.

Sincerely,

Pastor Jan Smith, Church of Exodus    

(Note: Some technical problems but the first church service will be held this Sunday, January 17th @ 9 a.m.)

HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT DEPENDENCY ACTION? EMAIL washingtonstateextendedfamilies@live.com

CPS IN WASHINGTON STATE: Changes are in the works with two newly appointed heads who are saying to the counties, "place with relatives."

Denise Revels Robinson met with Senator Pam Roach along with the AAG with promising results. "Good things are coming down the pike," claims Senator Roach who is an advocate for family placement. There is a newly formed trend to funnel extended family into the Office of Administrative Hearings when there is a grievance. Take note that in order to be heard, statutes and/or Constitution law must be quoted with proof of allegations.

UPDATE: Senator Roach is feeling highly annoyed that nothing is being done about several cases she is advocating for. We need to find out what is going on at the top eschelon of DSHS)

KOMO NEWS 4 Investigation uncovers 121 child deaths in State care: http://www.komonews.com/news/80246122.html?tab=video Legislators are coming on board with changes.....

What are some of the common things that are happening in each county that are not being addressed? Correction - new administration is working on some of the following:

 

1. False documentation 2. Children removed who are not in imminent danger 3. A refusal to place with relatives while looking for reasons to not place with relatives 4. Hearsay based removals 5. Judges who will NOT listen to defense and support CPS agenda only  6. Services not provided for removal reasons 7. A ridiculous amount of required services causing people to lose their jobs and housing if they want their children back 8. No assistance with adequate housing 9. Psychology used for the prosecution only 10. Drug/alcohol assessments are not resulting in appropriate placements 11. After all required services are completed, the children are still not returned 12. Grief and loss behaviors are being used against parents and extended family 13. Children being promised to relatives to get the parents to sign off rights then adopting out to strangers 14. Inadequate representation by court appointed attorneys 15. Judges not following preponderance of evidence laws 16. Judges who are supposed to hold CPS accountable for perjury and failure to produce evidence are not holding them accountable 17. When judges are faced with #16 they usually support CPS recommendations anyway 18. Their goal is currently to remove children and adopt them out to strangers as quickly as possible and by any means necessary with the least amount of resistance.

Don't you think you owe it to yourself to join the blog and chat?

 

UPDATE: I did get a response regarding the number of relative placements and I have determined that the numbers of placed children with extended family are approximately 20%. This is 18% or more below their advertised rate. It is, however, 10% higher than what I had publically expected. They still have not answered my other questions regarding their policy on relative placement and relationship to extended family (Oct 11, 2009)

 

The following link is a training session for DSHS regarding relative placement with an expert. It becomes clear why, with this type of teaching, there would be resistance to placing with relatives. Like all CPS trainings and public policy, there is an element of truth yet the spirit and attitude behind the thrust shadows other very important truths - namely blood is thicker than water. The trainer clearly eulogizes foster parenting and downgrades relative placement even though he was a relative placement himself.

One individual CPS worker states that there is an inherent belief that relatives don't have enough skills to parent. They site the fact that fosters get training where relative placements may not but the miniscule training that they recieve would not and could not justify this thinking. The Pride book in and of itself would not prepare people for parenting nor provide someone who applies for fostering the values necessary to  be a good parent. They are over-rating the training fosters get through the State. Pretty much anyone can become a foster parent. Hardly anyone is approved for relative placement.

http://www.dshs.wa.gov/ca/partners/trainingvidClinical.asp

 

BOYCOTT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - DON'T GO THERE - FIND ANOTHER COLLEGE

 

Psychology has become the weapon of choice for CPS and the judiciary. This is because the average person doesn't know enough about psychology, assessments, and diagnosis along with evidence rules. A so called "expert" can bring in hearsay and a bunch of non-scientific professional guessing. To assist with this lack of knowledge, I am putting together a class to address these issues. All CPS and court ordered assessments are for the specific purpose of building a case for the prosecution. The University of Washington is assisting this endeavor. It is time to boycott the UW.

 

They have a "court improvement project" and what one will discover through looking at all the materials is their idea of improvement is more effective prosecution using psychology. The allowed testimony of these unethical quacks they use destroys all manner of due process. http://www.uwcita.org/CITAv1008/trainingmaterials/psychevals.html The quacks assist the assistant AGs build their case and present in court. There is absolutely no training that encourages the quacks to support the family.

 

Let's look at the DSM IV manual that is the "bible" of psychology. For those interested, you can find it at the public library in the reference section. It was originally designed for billing insurance companies using codes to do so. It has become the center of all diagnosis. There is not a human being on this planet that will not fall in one or more mental health categories because they have broadened certain categories to fit billable hours and need to recommend treatment. This means that anyone they want "nailed" can be nailed using psychology.

 

Last month KOMO NEWS 4 report: http://www.komonews.com/news/problemsolvers/70599312.html?tab=video

ALL PARENTS AND EXTENDED FAMILY START BY READING THIS : http://www.scribd.com/doc/8020162/Parents-Guide-to-the-System

HOW TO TURN A FUN LOVING, LAW ABIDING, "PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN CITIZEN" INTO AN ANGRY, BROODING ANARCHIST IN 15 MONTHS OR LESS read here

I have noticed trends in child protection regarding removal. Certain times of the year results in fewer or more removals. At this time, removals are at a peak. This means that approximately 200 or more people per month are looking up info regarding CPS and land on my website. Because people are not connected, the system is allowed to do what it wants with no consequences. It is important to connect with others who are going through similar things that you are going through

NEW!! GRANDPARENT TRAINING VIDEOS REGARDING CPS: Watch all four regardless of where you are at in the process

Part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC7FxvYUKzw

  

Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_QdgdtmJes 

 

Part three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDZbLSrCUHY

 

Part four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7_ca4SRbQg

 

Child Protective Services and Legal Help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbPhfVhb6C4

 

Child Protective Services and Psychological Evaluations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaA2ohqTNsQ

 

Family Court Crisis - Our children at Risk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD2TowPuYVg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiA16b5WjU4

 

How to do an affidavit: http://familyrights.us/bin/FORMS/sworn_affidavit.html

 

ATTORNEY GENERALS ARE VIOLATING EXTENDED FAMILY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN PARENTAL TRIALS AS INDIVIDUALS SEEKING RELIEF.

Extended family have implied and assumed rights through state laws. Those laws may imply several things, such as placement with family first in a dependency action. While in court, AGs may minimize the importance of family, the state laws suggest recognition. Many argue that extended family have no Constitutional rights and I disagree. As an individual stakeholder in a child's life, there is often a tremendous amount of time, money and belongings provided by extended family making them heavy investors. In some cultures in our country, including and not limited to Caucasian, lineage such as grandchildren are just as heavily invested in as immediate lineage. If one reads the fifth amendment: nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation this would include lineage and the rights to lineage where heavy investments have been made to the benefit of the whole family. Parents often depend on extended family for their children's well being and secondary parenting.

In some cases, grandparents may be more heavily invested in grandchildren than the parents themselves providing food, clothing, shelter, college tuition, school supplies, child care, etc. and to suggest that the fifth amendment does not apply in these cases in ludicrous.

I think that grandparents who display proudly a bumper sticker with the words, "I am off spending my grandchildren's inheritance" perhaps shouldn't be provided the same fifth amendment rights as those who feel that investment in lineage is an obligation to current and future generations. But for those of us who have proveable investments, then careful consideration by legislative bodies, AGs and court judges should be mandated.

Consider the intent of the Constitution/Amendment/Bill of Rights writers. What were things like then? Well, the industrial revolution hadn't happened yet so family owned and passed down business was the norm. It was expected that children and their children would work the family business. Kids didn't usually grow up and move away. Many stayed right on the same land as their parents and it continued on down the line until WWII and the industrial revolution. While lineage may have lost its meaning for some, others understand what I am saying perfectly.


WISE ADVICE TO EXTENDED FAMILY FROM AN EXPERT

You do have some state remedies, depending on what state you live in. You can file a motion to intervene, then set it for hearing. If the Judge refuses to hear your motion, you can file a Writ of Mandamus to force him to hear it. If he hears it and rules against you, you then have standing to appeal. In Florida you can petition to adopt your grandchildren with the consent of their parents at any time prior to a Termination of Parental rights. You would file a Petition for Adoption, with an approved homestudy from a private professional. If he refused to set it or hear it, you would file the Mandamus and force him to. If he rules against you, then you can appeal that decision. The department will of course object and say that they don't approve, but as long as your private professional is more qualified than those objecting the court will be forced to take the experts opinion on the homestudy. This is a last resort method to prevent them from being adopted by foster providers. Remember the court has the ultimate authority to decide the best interests of the child and could deny your petition based on information that has been previously provided to him by the department, so you will want your petition and expert to rebut all that has been said so far or have an answer for it. I would actually be up front with the person doing the homestudy and give him or her the same background that the department has supplied the court, so that they would be ready for any questions on the stand.

 

Welcome to Washington State Extended Families. Chances are you landed here because your family is in crisis and are now seeking immediate answers. Child protection has morphed into a complex arena where only the stealthiest survive. The issues start with an expressed legitimate concern and/or false allegations that can lead from casual government involvement to a comprehensive web of services and court action that often becomes post traumatic stress syndrome material. It is the most brutal game of win/lose that has ever been invented and at the onset of CPS investigation, it is anyone's guess who will come out on top.  The governing bodies have made sure that CPS and the courts are immune from any of their own actions, so let's go to who the players are that frequently find themselves with a broken heart and grief untold.

 

THE CHILDREN:  So, what bad things happen to them? The child savers through their decision making process have rescued them like the Lone Ranger and Tonto after the bad guys, right? They never make mistakes and have a solid set of values and ethics that are beyond reproach - or is this what the government wants you to think? Statistics say otherwise. Here are just a few of the concerns: CLICK HERE TO READ FULL REPORT

 

Foster Parents may unwittingly be subject to foster children in their care being used for government medical experiments. Consider the substantial number of children in foster care being prescribed psychotropic and anti-psychotic medications along with forced vaccines. Most of these medications are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for children. So why are they getting away with it? Read more here

Are children being drugged for social control? Hear what one leading Dr. had to say:

 

Dr. Goodwin compared “inner city youth to monkeys who live in a jungle, who just want to kill each other, have sex and reproduce.” His remarks set off a public storm and he was forced to resign only to be appointed director of the National Institute of Mental Health. http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html

This website is committed to providing information regarding Child Protective Services (CPS) in Washington State and how their actions are affecting families and our communities. The numbers of affected persons are staggering. From 2006-2007, child removal doubled which means that up to 300,000 family members were directly affected. This is just in one year; muliply that and in a five year period, a million family members are traumatized through child removal. As removal continues to be a major focus in family crisis management and federal dollars increase, expect those numbers to rise.

 

THE DEATH OF FAMILY PRESERVATION: Two books are mainly responsible for the anti-family movement. One was written in the 70s by three Jewish therapists/professors. The book that was particularly influential in the implementation of CAPTA was called, "Beyond the Best Interest of the Child." In addition, this book and their influence was also responsible in part for The Federal Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997.

Book Review Click Here: PART ONE

Of interest, I just discovered that Hillary Clinton was responsible in part for research that went into Beyond the Best Interest of the Child. In her book, "It Takes a Village," she shares part of her beliefs and where they come from. Her mother apparently was abandoned by two teenage parents and ended up living with her grandparents that her mother felt was abusive, then worked for a family babysitting that provided some stability.

See the correlation between Hillary's family history and  advocacy for breaking up families and public policy?  My conclusion is this; Because Hillary's mother found some comfort in this charade, we now have to suffer world wide under her family history and the conclusion she derived from it. "Hillary, not all families within the village are subject to the same experience and in the exact same way."

I have concerns about that and the coming financial and socialist crisis being created here in America. Because child removal appears to be centered on the poor and those writing the book are members of elite society, then the ramifications of their doctrine will not be felt by them or any member of that class.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/fostercare/inside/roberts.html

 

Some of you may be aware of the difference in child protection law and other law. CPS law is based on clinical psychology and is influenced by feminist thought. The above books not only affect America, but have taken their place amongst the elite in the United Nations. For sceptics of the UN Convention on Rights of the Child Treaty and the damaging effects, here is an article that had me furious. It shows that in Sweden, a concept called "pathological symbiosis" is in their law and is used as a child removal tool directed at single mothers. This belief states that single mothers get too close to their children, especially sons, and should be detered through removal and fostering. They also have in their law the broad reaching ability to remove children under the term "other" and have the highest removal and fostering rates in the world. The article contains many complex psychological concepts and is not for everyone. However, it is important in the argument that the treaty should NEVER be ratified here in the US and that clinical psychology needs to be removed from the law.

http://klevius.info/pathologicalsymbiosis.html

 

IMPORTANT AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION TRAINING ON PERMANENCY CLICK HERE

 

THE CRITICS OF CURRENT CHILD ABUSE LAWS AND THE CHILD PROTECTIVE SYSTEM: A SURVEY OF THE LEADING LITERATURE

 

CATHOLIC SOCIAL SCIENCE REVIEW

 

FOSTER CARE VS. FAMILY PRESERVATION: THE TRACK RECORD ON SAFETY AND WELL-BEING

 

 

THE PROBLEM WITH OUR GOVERNMENT IS THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH OUR GOVERNMENT: CLICK HERE

 

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Parental rights are eroding and it is not just about the family down the street. It is about ALL families. Read the article below and you will begin to understand how serious this is.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/aug/27/20060827-103843-8516r/ 

 

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