Child Suport Lawsuit in Alabama

The former Director of the Virginia Division of Child Support Enforcement
went to PSI, IMMEDIATELY AFTER LEAVING DCSE.

"Kenneth S." wrote in message
...
Some years back, when you went to the Policy Studies, Inc., web site,
you would see information about the backgrounds of all senior executives
of
the company. To a quite remarkable extent, these people were former state
government officials who had administered welfare and "child support"
programs (and doubtless had dispensed contracts to PSI). On top of that,
the relationship between these PSI executives and state governments had
been
maintained, as indicated by the information about where PSI currently had
contracts, also shown at that time on the web site.

All that sort of information disappeared from the PSI web site
(http://www.policy-studies.com/) years ago. No doubt it was considered
unwise to make it too easy for fathers like me to inspect it. However, PSI
and its president Robert Williams are still up to their old tricks. They
have a press release on the PSI web site at the moment about the
appointment
of one Doug Howard as a vice president. Howard is described as having
held
held "top positions for human services agencies in Iowa and Michigan." A
quick Internet search indicates that what is euphemistically described as
"human services" is in fact CS enforcement -- at least in Michigan, where
Howard was director of the "Family Independence Agency." (Soon I'm going
to
establish myself a consultant on obscure and euphemistic vocabulary to the
child support industry. It's a booming business, evidently, and it
doesn't
end with calling fathers "noncustodial parents.")

One former head of the Virginia DSCE went to work for PSI a few years
back. HIS predecessor went to work for Lockheed Martin, which at the time
was trying to diversify into the CS enforcement business. (Surprising
line
of business for Lockheed Martin, huh? But, as some fathers noted at the
time, precision bombing was about the only CS enforcement technique that
hadn't been used on them.)

This whole so-called "child support" business is just riddled with
corruption. To me, the surprising thing is that no reporter ever thinks
of
doing an investigatory story on the situation. I suppose the reason for
the
absence of press interest is that the victims of this corruption,
heterosexual men, are one of the few remaining official scapegoat groups
in
the U.S. No Pulitzer prizes for showing how the system is rigged against
THEM!

A FOIA request to Virginia about where all previous heads of DCSE went
after they left the agency would, by itself, tell an interesting story.




"Editor - Child Support News" wrote in
message
...
Here in Virginia, they helped established the Guideline amounts, then
Virginia gave them contracts to operate FOUR DCSE offices in the state.

Virginia has yet to comply with my FOIA request for the contracts, but I
believe they may have been paid based on a percentage of what they
collect.

Dads need to file FOIA requests for Policy Studies contracts with all
state
DCSE offices.

You get them, in electronic form, and I'll post them.

"Mel Gamble" wrote in message
...
This same bunch of whores - Policy Studies - increased oregun's
guieline
amounts by something close to 50% for low-income payors last year.

When state's are having such a hard time balancing their budgets with
state taxes on citizenry suffering from no or reduced earnings, it's
easy to get the legislators to pass on higher support guidelines so
they
can get more of the federal pie in incentive payments for establishing
paternities, forcing fathers to pay for health insurance policies and
forcibly taking ever-increasing percentages of their wages, all of
which
bring more of those federal dollars into the state.

When are they going to wake up and realize/admit the affect of the
measures that GET those federal dollars and where the damn federal
dollars came from in the first place? Balancing their budgets on the
backs of children and their fathers is EVIL and every legislator that
votes in support of these increases should be sitting in prison like
any
other admitted child abuser....

Mel Gamble

Editor - Child Support News wrote:

Child Support Suit
Associated Press

Two members of the state's child support advisory committee have
filed
a
lawsuit against acting Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Gorman
Houston
and other members of the committee, claiming they are operating in a
secret
and unconstitutional manner.

Committee members James Blackston and Brad Barber filed suit last
week
against Houston, Lewis Gosa, chairman of the Advisory Committee on
Alabama
Child Support Guidelines and Enforcement, and other officials with
the
state
child support system.

Both men reside in Jefferson County and are non-custodial parents.

In March, the committee received a recommendation to raise the child
support
guidelines by an average of 32-percent, meaning many non-custodial
parents
could pay almost a third more in child support than they do now.

Barber and Blackston allege that Houston and two others met secretly
on
January eighth to issue a contract to Policy Studies Incorporated to
review
the state's child support schedule. The agency recommended the
32-percent
increase.

Blackston and Barber contend the contract should have been approved
by
the
entire committee.

Houston said Tuesday he wouldn't comment on the lawsuit until he
reviews
it
with the attorney general's office.

The former Director of the Virginia Division of Child Support Enforcement
went to PSI, IMMEDIATELY AFTER LEAVING DCSE.

"Kenneth S." wrote in message
...
Some years back, when you went to the Policy Studies, Inc., web site,
you would see information about the backgrounds of all senior executives
of
the company. To a quite remarkable extent, these people were former state
government officials who had administered welfare and "child support"
programs (and doubtless had dispensed contracts to PSI). On top of that,
the relationship between these PSI executives and state governments had
been
maintained, as indicated by the information about where PSI currently had
contracts, also shown at that time on the web site.

All that sort of information disappeared from the PSI web site
(http://www.policy-studies.com/) years ago. No doubt it was considered
unwise to make it too easy for fathers like me to inspect it. However, PSI
and its president Robert Williams are still up to their old tricks. They
have a press release on the PSI web site at the moment about the
appointment
of one Doug Howard as a vice president. Howard is described as having
held
held "top positions for human services agencies in Iowa and Michigan." A
quick Internet search indicates that what is euphemistically described as
"human services" is in fact CS enforcement -- at least in Michigan, where
Howard was director of the "Family Independence Agency." (Soon I'm going
to
establish myself a consultant on obscure and euphemistic vocabulary to the
child support industry. It's a booming business, evidently, and it
doesn't
end with calling fathers "noncustodial parents.")

One former head of the Virginia DSCE went to work for PSI a few years
back. HIS predecessor went to work for Lockheed Martin, which at the time
was trying to diversify into the CS enforcement business. (Surprising
line
of business for Lockheed Martin, huh? But, as some fathers noted at the
time, precision bombing was about the only CS enforcement technique that
hadn't been used on them.)

This whole so-called "child support" business is just riddled with
corruption. To me, the surprising thing is that no reporter ever thinks
of
doing an investigatory story on the situation. I suppose the reason for
the
absence of press interest is that the victims of this corruption,
heterosexual men, are one of the few remaining official scapegoat groups
in
the U.S. No Pulitzer prizes for showing how the system is rigged against
THEM!

A FOIA request to Virginia about where all previous heads of DCSE went
after they left the agency would, by itself, tell an interesting story.




"Editor - Child Support News" wrote in
message
...
Here in Virginia, they helped established the Guideline amounts, then
Virginia gave them contracts to operate FOUR DCSE offices in the state.

Virginia has yet to comply with my FOIA request for the contracts, but I
believe they may have been paid based on a percentage of what they
collect.

Dads need to file FOIA requests for Policy Studies contracts with all
state
DCSE offices.

You get them, in electronic form, and I'll post them.

"Mel Gamble" wrote in message
...
This same bunch of whores - Policy Studies - increased oregun's
guieline
amounts by something close to 50% for low-income payors last year.

When state's are having such a hard time balancing their budgets with
state taxes on citizenry suffering from no or reduced earnings, it's
easy to get the legislators to pass on higher support guidelines so
they
can get more of the federal pie in incentive payments for establishing
paternities, forcing fathers to pay for health insurance policies and
forcibly taking ever-increasing percentages of their wages, all of
which
bring more of those federal dollars into the state.

When are they going to wake up and realize/admit the affect of the
measures that GET those federal dollars and where the damn federal
dollars came from in the first place? Balancing their budgets on the
backs of children and their fathers is EVIL and every legislator that
votes in support of these increases should be sitting in prison like
any
other admitted child abuser....

Mel Gamble

Editor - Child Support News wrote:

Child Support Suit
Associated Press

Two members of the state's child support advisory committee have
filed
a
lawsuit against acting Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Gorman
Houston
and other members of the committee, claiming they are operating in a
secret
and unconstitutional manner.

Committee members James Blackston and Brad Barber filed suit last
week
against Houston, Lewis Gosa, chairman of the Advisory Committee on
Alabama
Child Support Guidelines and Enforcement, and other officials with
the
state
child support system.

Both men reside in Jefferson County and are non-custodial parents.

In March, the committee received a recommendation to raise the child
support
guidelines by an average of 32-percent, meaning many non-custodial
parents
could pay almost a third more in child support than they do now.

Barber and Blackston allege that Houston and two others met secretly
on
January eighth to issue a contract to Policy Studies Incorporated to
review
the state's child support schedule. The agency recommended the
32-percent
increase.

Blackston and Barber contend the contract should have been approved
by
the
entire committee.

Houston said Tuesday he wouldn't comment on the lawsuit until he
reviews
it
with the attorney general's office.

The former Director of the Virginia Division of Child Support Enforcement
went to PSI, IMMEDIATELY AFTER LEAVING DCSE.

"Kenneth S." wrote in message
...
Some years back, when you went to the Policy Studies, Inc., web site,
you would see information about the backgrounds of all senior executives
of
the company. To a quite remarkable extent, these people were former state
government officials who had administered welfare and "child support"
programs (and doubtless had dispensed contracts to PSI). On top of that,
the relationship between these PSI executives and state governments had
been
maintained, as indicated by the information about where PSI currently had
contracts, also shown at that time on the web site.

All that sort of information disappeared from the PSI web site
(http://www.policy-studies.com/) years ago. No doubt it was considered
unwise to make it too easy for fathers like me to inspect it. However, PSI
and its president Robert Williams are still up to their old tricks. They
have a press release on the PSI web site at the moment about the
appointment
of one Doug Howard as a vice president. Howard is described as having
held
held "top positions for human services agencies in Iowa and Michigan." A
quick Internet search indicates that what is euphemistically described as
"human services" is in fact CS enforcement -- at least in Michigan, where
Howard was director of the "Family Independence Agency." (Soon I'm going
to
establish myself a consultant on obscure and euphemistic vocabulary to the
child support industry. It's a booming business, evidently, and it
doesn't
end with calling fathers "noncustodial parents.")

One former head of the Virginia DSCE went to work for PSI a few years
back. HIS predecessor went to work for Lockheed Martin, which at the time
was trying to diversify into the CS enforcement business. (Surprising
line
of business for Lockheed Martin, huh? But, as some fathers noted at the
time, precision bombing was about the only CS enforcement technique that
hadn't been used on them.)

This whole so-called "child support" business is just riddled with
corruption. To me, the surprising thing is that no reporter ever thinks
of
doing an investigatory story on the situation. I suppose the reason for
the
absence of press interest is that the victims of this corruption,
heterosexual men, are one of the few remaining official scapegoat groups
in
the U.S. No Pulitzer prizes for showing how the system is rigged against
THEM!

A FOIA request to Virginia about where all previous heads of DCSE went
after they left the agency would, by itself, tell an interesting story.




"Editor - Child Support News" wrote in
message
...
Here in Virginia, they helped established the Guideline amounts, then
Virginia gave them contracts to operate FOUR DCSE offices in the state.

Virginia has yet to comply with my FOIA request for the contracts, but I
believe they may have been paid based on a percentage of what they
collect.

Dads need to file FOIA requests for Policy Studies contracts with all
state
DCSE offices.

You get them, in electronic form, and I'll post them.

"Mel Gamble" wrote in message
...
This same bunch of whores - Policy Studies - increased oregun's
guieline
amounts by something close to 50% for low-income payors last year.

When state's are having such a hard time balancing their budgets with
state taxes on citizenry suffering from no or reduced earnings, it's
easy to get the legislators to pass on higher support guidelines so
they
can get more of the federal pie in incentive payments for establishing
paternities, forcing fathers to pay for health insurance policies and
forcibly taking ever-increasing percentages of their wages, all of
which
bring more of those federal dollars into the state.

When are they going to wake up and realize/admit the affect of the
measures that GET those federal dollars and where the damn federal
dollars came from in the first place? Balancing their budgets on the
backs of children and their fathers is EVIL and every legislator that
votes in support of these increases should be sitting in prison like
any
other admitted child abuser....

Mel Gamble

Editor - Child Support News wrote:

Child Support Suit
Associated Press

Two members of the state's child support advisory committee have
filed
a
lawsuit against acting Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Gorman
Houston
and other members of the committee, claiming they are operating in a
secret
and unconstitutional manner.

Committee members James Blackston and Brad Barber filed suit last
week
against Houston, Lewis Gosa, chairman of the Advisory Committee on
Alabama
Child Support Guidelines and Enforcement, and other officials with
the
state
child support system.

Both men reside in Jefferson County and are non-custodial parents.

In March, the committee received a recommendation to raise the child
support
guidelines by an average of 32-percent, meaning many non-custodial
parents
could pay almost a third more in child support than they do now.

Barber and Blackston allege that Houston and two others met secretly
on
January eighth to issue a contract to Policy Studies Incorporated to
review
the state's child support schedule. The agency recommended the
32-percent
increase.

Blackston and Barber contend the contract should have been approved
by
the
entire committee.

Houston said Tuesday he wouldn't comment on the lawsuit until he
reviews
it
with the attorney general's office.

I don't know whether such a request would fall under the pervue of a FOIA
request, but I've ****ed them off so much already...

:-)

"Kenneth S." wrote in message
...

A FOIA request to Virginia about where all previous heads of DCSE went
after they left the agency would, by itself, tell an interesting story.

I don't know whether such a request would fall under the pervue of a FOIA
request, but I've ****ed them off so much already...

:-)

"Kenneth S." wrote in message
...

A FOIA request to Virginia about where all previous heads of DCSE went
after they left the agency would, by itself, tell an interesting story.

I don't know whether such a request would fall under the pervue of a FOIA
request, but I've ****ed them off so much already...

:-)

"Kenneth S." wrote in message
...

A FOIA request to Virginia about where all previous heads of DCSE went
after they left the agency would, by itself, tell an interesting story.

It's how bureaucracy works; government officials work with specific private
sector entities who are rewarded after they leave government employment by
being placed in a position of power dealing with the assistant they left
behind filling their position who are hoping to eventually repeat the
process.
This is why the government pays $654 for hammers, $360 for toilet seats and
how C$ is so totally screwed up in every area.
Phil #3


"Kenneth S." wrote in message
...
Some years back, when you went to the Policy Studies, Inc., web site,
you would see information about the backgrounds of all senior executives
of
the company. To a quite remarkable extent, these people were former state
government officials who had administered welfare and "child support"
programs (and doubtless had dispensed contracts to PSI). On top of that,
the relationship between these PSI executives and state governments had
been
maintained, as indicated by the information about where PSI currently had
contracts, also shown at that time on the web site.

All that sort of information disappeared from the PSI web site
(http://www.policy-studies.com/) years ago. No doubt it was considered
unwise to make it too easy for fathers like me to inspect it. However, PSI
and its president Robert Williams are still up to their old tricks. They
have a press release on the PSI web site at the moment about the
appointment
of one Doug Howard as a vice president. Howard is described as having
held
held "top positions for human services agencies in Iowa and Michigan." A
quick Internet search indicates that what is euphemistically described as
"human services" is in fact CS enforcement -- at least in Michigan, where
Howard was director of the "Family Independence Agency." (Soon I'm going
to
establish myself a consultant on obscure and euphemistic vocabulary to the
child support industry. It's a booming business, evidently, and it
doesn't
end with calling fathers "noncustodial parents.")

One former head of the Virginia DSCE went to work for PSI a few years
back. HIS predecessor went to work for Lockheed Martin, which at the time
was trying to diversify into the CS enforcement business. (Surprising
line
of business for Lockheed Martin, huh? But, as some fathers noted at the
time, precision bombing was about the only CS enforcement technique that
hadn't been used on them.)

This whole so-called "child support" business is just riddled with
corruption. To me, the surprising thing is that no reporter ever thinks
of
doing an investigatory story on the situation. I suppose the reason for
the
absence of press interest is that the victims of this corruption,
heterosexual men, are one of the few remaining official scapegoat groups
in
the U.S. No Pulitzer prizes for showing how the system is rigged against
THEM!

A FOIA request to Virginia about where all previous heads of DCSE went
after they left the agency would, by itself, tell an interesting story.




"Editor - Child Support News" wrote in
message
...
Here in Virginia, they helped established the Guideline amounts, then
Virginia gave them contracts to operate FOUR DCSE offices in the state.

Virginia has yet to comply with my FOIA request for the contracts, but I
believe they may have been paid based on a percentage of what they
collect.

Dads need to file FOIA requests for Policy Studies contracts with all
state
DCSE offices.

You get them, in electronic form, and I'll post them.

"Mel Gamble" wrote in message
...
This same bunch of whores - Policy Studies - increased oregun's
guieline
amounts by something close to 50% for low-income payors last year.

When state's are having such a hard time balancing their budgets with
state taxes on citizenry suffering from no or reduced earnings, it's
easy to get the legislators to pass on higher support guidelines so
they
can get more of the federal pie in incentive payments for establishing
paternities, forcing fathers to pay for health insurance policies and
forcibly taking ever-increasing percentages of their wages, all of
which
bring more of those federal dollars into the state.

When are they going to wake up and realize/admit the affect of the
measures that GET those federal dollars and where the damn federal
dollars came from in the first place? Balancing their budgets on the
backs of children and their fathers is EVIL and every legislator that
votes in support of these increases should be sitting in prison like
any
other admitted child abuser....

Mel Gamble

Editor - Child Support News wrote:

Child Support Suit
Associated Press

Two members of the state's child support advisory committee have
filed
a
lawsuit against acting Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Gorman
Houston
and other members of the committee, claiming they are operating in a
secret
and unconstitutional manner.

Committee members James Blackston and Brad Barber filed suit last
week
against Houston, Lewis Gosa, chairman of the Advisory Committee on
Alabama
Child Support Guidelines and Enforcement, and other officials with
the
state
child support system.

Both men reside in Jefferson County and are non-custodial parents.

In March, the committee received a recommendation to raise the child
support
guidelines by an average of 32-percent, meaning many non-custodial
parents
could pay almost a third more in child support than they do now.

Barber and Blackston allege that Houston and two others met secretly
on
January eighth to issue a contract to Policy Studies Incorporated to
review
the state's child support schedule. The agency recommended the
32-percent
increase.

Blackston and Barber contend the contract should have been approved
by
the
entire committee.

Houston said Tuesday he wouldn't comment on the lawsuit until he
reviews
it
with the attorney general's office.

It's how bureaucracy works; government officials work with specific private
sector entities who are rewarded after they leave government employment by
being placed in a position of power dealing with the assistant they left
behind filling their position who are hoping to eventually repeat the
process.
This is why the government pays $654 for hammers, $360 for toilet seats and
how C$ is so totally screwed up in every area.
Phil #3


"Kenneth S." wrote in message
...
Some years back, when you went to the Policy Studies, Inc., web site,
you would see information about the backgrounds of all senior executives
of
the company. To a quite remarkable extent, these people were former state
government officials who had administered welfare and "child support"
programs (and doubtless had dispensed contracts to PSI). On top of that,
the relationship between these PSI executives and state governments had
been
maintained, as indicated by the information about where PSI currently had
contracts, also shown at that time on the web site.

All that sort of information disappeared from the PSI web site
(http://www.policy-studies.com/) years ago. No doubt it was considered
unwise to make it too easy for fathers like me to inspect it. However, PSI
and its president Robert Williams are still up to their old tricks. They
have a press release on the PSI web site at the moment about the
appointment
of one Doug Howard as a vice president. Howard is described as having
held
held "top positions for human services agencies in Iowa and Michigan." A
quick Internet search indicates that what is euphemistically described as
"human services" is in fact CS enforcement -- at least in Michigan, where
Howard was director of the "Family Independence Agency." (Soon I'm going
to
establish myself a consultant on obscure and euphemistic vocabulary to the
child support industry. It's a booming business, evidently, and it
doesn't
end with calling fathers "noncustodial parents.")

One former head of the Virginia DSCE went to work for PSI a few years
back. HIS predecessor went to work for Lockheed Martin, which at the time
was trying to diversify into the CS enforcement business. (Surprising
line
of business for Lockheed Martin, huh? But, as some fathers noted at the
time, precision bombing was about the only CS enforcement technique that
hadn't been used on them.)

This whole so-called "child support" business is just riddled with
corruption. To me, the surprising thing is that no reporter ever thinks
of
doing an investigatory story on the situation. I suppose the reason for
the
absence of press interest is that the victims of this corruption,
heterosexual men, are one of the few remaining official scapegoat groups
in
the U.S. No Pulitzer prizes for showing how the system is rigged against
THEM!

A FOIA request to Virginia about where all previous heads of DCSE went
after they left the agency would, by itself, tell an interesting story.




"Editor - Child Support News" wrote in
message
...
Here in Virginia, they helped established the Guideline amounts, then
Virginia gave them contracts to operate FOUR DCSE offices in the state.

Virginia has yet to comply with my FOIA request for the contracts, but I
believe they may have been paid based on a percentage of what they
collect.

Dads need to file FOIA requests for Policy Studies contracts with all
state
DCSE offices.

You get them, in electronic form, and I'll post them.

"Mel Gamble" wrote in message
...
This same bunch of whores - Policy Studies - increased oregun's
guieline
amounts by something close to 50% for low-income payors last year.

When state's are having such a hard time balancing their budgets with
state taxes on citizenry suffering from no or reduced earnings, it's
easy to get the legislators to pass on higher support guidelines so
they
can get more of the federal pie in incentive payments for establishing
paternities, forcing fathers to pay for health insurance policies and
forcibly taking ever-increasing percentages of their wages, all of
which
bring more of those federal dollars into the state.

When are they going to wake up and realize/admit the affect of the
measures that GET those federal dollars and where the damn federal
dollars came from in the first place? Balancing their budgets on the
backs of children and their fathers is EVIL and every legislator that
votes in support of these increases should be sitting in prison like
any
other admitted child abuser....

Mel Gamble

Editor - Child Support News wrote:

Child Support Suit
Associated Press

Two members of the state's child support advisory committee have
filed
a
lawsuit against acting Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Gorman
Houston
and other members of the committee, claiming they are operating in a
secret
and unconstitutional manner.

Committee members James Blackston and Brad Barber filed suit last
week
against Houston, Lewis Gosa, chairman of the Advisory Committee on
Alabama
Child Support Guidelines and Enforcement, and other officials with
the
state
child support system.

Both men reside in Jefferson County and are non-custodial parents.

In March, the committee received a recommendation to raise the child
support
guidelines by an average of 32-percent, meaning many non-custodial
parents
could pay almost a third more in child support than they do now.

Barber and Blackston allege that Houston and two others met secretly
on
January eighth to issue a contract to Policy Studies Incorporated to
review
the state's child support schedule. The agency recommended the
32-percent
increase.

Blackston and Barber contend the contract should have been approved
by
the
entire committee.

Houston said Tuesday he wouldn't comment on the lawsuit until he
reviews
it
with the attorney general's office.

It's how bureaucracy works; government officials work with specific private
sector entities who are rewarded after they leave government employment by
being placed in a position of power dealing with the assistant they left
behind filling their position who are hoping to eventually repeat the
process.
This is why the government pays $654 for hammers, $360 for toilet seats and
how C$ is so totally screwed up in every area.
Phil #3


"Kenneth S." wrote in message
...
Some years back, when you went to the Policy Studies, Inc., web site,
you would see information about the backgrounds of all senior executives
of
the company. To a quite remarkable extent, these people were former state
government officials who had administered welfare and "child support"
programs (and doubtless had dispensed contracts to PSI). On top of that,
the relationship between these PSI executives and state governments had
been
maintained, as indicated by the information about where PSI currently had
contracts, also shown at that time on the web site.

All that sort of information disappeared from the PSI web site
(http://www.policy-studies.com/) years ago. No doubt it was considered
unwise to make it too easy for fathers like me to inspect it. However, PSI
and its president Robert Williams are still up to their old tricks. They
have a press release on the PSI web site at the moment about the
appointment
of one Doug Howard as a vice president. Howard is described as having
held
held "top positions for human services agencies in Iowa and Michigan." A
quick Internet search indicates that what is euphemistically described as
"human services" is in fact CS enforcement -- at least in Michigan, where
Howard was director of the "Family Independence Agency." (Soon I'm going
to
establish myself a consultant on obscure and euphemistic vocabulary to the
child support industry. It's a booming business, evidently, and it
doesn't
end with calling fathers "noncustodial parents.")

One former head of the Virginia DSCE went to work for PSI a few years
back. HIS predecessor went to work for Lockheed Martin, which at the time
was trying to diversify into the CS enforcement business. (Surprising
line
of business for Lockheed Martin, huh? But, as some fathers noted at the
time, precision bombing was about the only CS enforcement technique that
hadn't been used on them.)

This whole so-called "child support" business is just riddled with
corruption. To me, the surprising thing is that no reporter ever thinks
of
doing an investigatory story on the situation. I suppose the reason for
the
absence of press interest is that the victims of this corruption,
heterosexual men, are one of the few remaining official scapegoat groups
in
the U.S. No Pulitzer prizes for showing how the system is rigged against
THEM!

A FOIA request to Virginia about where all previous heads of DCSE went
after they left the agency would, by itself, tell an interesting story.




"Editor - Child Support News" wrote in
message
...
Here in Virginia, they helped established the Guideline amounts, then
Virginia gave them contracts to operate FOUR DCSE offices in the state.

Virginia has yet to comply with my FOIA request for the contracts, but I
believe they may have been paid based on a percentage of what they
collect.

Dads need to file FOIA requests for Policy Studies contracts with all
state
DCSE offices.

You get them, in electronic form, and I'll post them.

"Mel Gamble" wrote in message
...
This same bunch of whores - Policy Studies - increased oregun's
guieline
amounts by something close to 50% for low-income payors last year.

When state's are having such a hard time balancing their budgets with
state taxes on citizenry suffering from no or reduced earnings, it's
easy to get the legislators to pass on higher support guidelines so
they
can get more of the federal pie in incentive payments for establishing
paternities, forcing fathers to pay for health insurance policies and
forcibly taking ever-increasing percentages of their wages, all of
which
bring more of those federal dollars into the state.

When are they going to wake up and realize/admit the affect of the
measures that GET those federal dollars and where the damn federal
dollars came from in the first place? Balancing their budgets on the
backs of children and their fathers is EVIL and every legislator that
votes in support of these increases should be sitting in prison like
any
other admitted child abuser....

Mel Gamble

Editor - Child Support News wrote:

Child Support Suit
Associated Press

Two members of the state's child support advisory committee have
filed
a
lawsuit against acting Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Gorman
Houston
and other members of the committee, claiming they are operating in a
secret
and unconstitutional manner.

Committee members James Blackston and Brad Barber filed suit last
week
against Houston, Lewis Gosa, chairman of the Advisory Committee on
Alabama
Child Support Guidelines and Enforcement, and other officials with
the
state
child support system.

Both men reside in Jefferson County and are non-custodial parents.

In March, the committee received a recommendation to raise the child
support
guidelines by an average of 32-percent, meaning many non-custodial
parents
could pay almost a third more in child support than they do now.

Barber and Blackston allege that Houston and two others met secretly
on
January eighth to issue a contract to Policy Studies Incorporated to
review
the state's child support schedule. The agency recommended the
32-percent
increase.

Blackston and Barber contend the contract should have been approved
by
the
entire committee.

Houston said Tuesday he wouldn't comment on the lawsuit until he
reviews
it
with the attorney general's office.

You're talking about Mike Henry, right? And HIS predecessor went
straight to Lockheed Martin after leaving DCSE.

There must be some reason PSI gets all these CS contracts. CSI
President Robert Williams, although evidently very good at drumming up
business for himself, is a most unimpressive witness on the subject on which
he is supposed to be so knowledgeable. He testified to a Virginia CS
advisory committee several years ago (and, I was told at the time, received
$10,000 plus travel costs for doing so). One of the fathers who also
testified was an economic consultant, and he made mincemeat of Williams, and
all his supposed "expertise."

This is a racket, pure and simple. It can continue only because the
fathers who have to pay the money are so powerless politically. No one has
any reason to care that the system is so grossly unfair to fathers, and in
the process so destructive to children and to long-term social stability, by
creating incentives for fatherless families.

Currently, a former Defense Department official is facing the likelihood
of a prison sentence because she left DOD, immediately went to work for
Boeing in a highly paid capacity, and was responsible for all kinds of
valuable government business going to Boeing. I can't wait for this to
happen in the "child support" industry, but I won't be holding my breath.

"Editor - Child Support News" wrote in message
...
The former Director of the Virginia Division of Child Support Enforcement
went to PSI, IMMEDIATELY AFTER LEAVING DCSE.

"Kenneth S." wrote in message
...
Some years back, when you went to the Policy Studies, Inc., web
site,
you would see information about the backgrounds of all senior executives
of
the company. To a quite remarkable extent, these people were former
state
government officials who had administered welfare and "child support"
programs (and doubtless had dispensed contracts to PSI). On top of
that,
the relationship between these PSI executives and state governments had
been
maintained, as indicated by the information about where PSI currently
had
contracts, also shown at that time on the web site.

All that sort of information disappeared from the PSI web site
(http://www.policy-studies.com/) years ago. No doubt it was considered
unwise to make it too easy for fathers like me to inspect it. However,
PSI
and its president Robert Williams are still up to their old tricks.
They
have a press release on the PSI web site at the moment about the
appointment
of one Doug Howard as a vice president. Howard is described as having
held
held "top positions for human services agencies in Iowa and Michigan."
A
quick Internet search indicates that what is euphemistically described
as
"human services" is in fact CS enforcement -- at least in Michigan,
where
Howard was director of the "Family Independence Agency." (Soon I'm
going
to
establish myself a consultant on obscure and euphemistic vocabulary to
the
child support industry. It's a booming business, evidently, and it
doesn't
end with calling fathers "noncustodial parents.")

One former head of the Virginia DSCE went to work for PSI a few
years
back. HIS predecessor went to work for Lockheed Martin, which at the
time
was trying to diversify into the CS enforcement business. (Surprising
line
of business for Lockheed Martin, huh? But, as some fathers noted at the
time, precision bombing was about the only CS enforcement technique that
hadn't been used on them.)

This whole so-called "child support" business is just riddled with
corruption. To me, the surprising thing is that no reporter ever thinks
of
doing an investigatory story on the situation. I suppose the reason for
the
absence of press interest is that the victims of this corruption,
heterosexual men, are one of the few remaining official scapegoat groups
in
the U.S. No Pulitzer prizes for showing how the system is rigged
against
THEM!

A FOIA request to Virginia about where all previous heads of DCSE
went
after they left the agency would, by itself, tell an interesting story.




"Editor - Child Support News" wrote in
message
...
Here in Virginia, they helped established the Guideline amounts, then
Virginia gave them contracts to operate FOUR DCSE offices in the
state.

Virginia has yet to comply with my FOIA request for the contracts, but
I
believe they may have been paid based on a percentage of what they
collect.

Dads need to file FOIA requests for Policy Studies contracts with all
state
DCSE offices.

You get them, in electronic form, and I'll post them.

"Mel Gamble" wrote in message
...
This same bunch of whores - Policy Studies - increased oregun's
guieline
amounts by something close to 50% for low-income payors last year.

When state's are having such a hard time balancing their budgets
with
state taxes on citizenry suffering from no or reduced earnings, it's
easy to get the legislators to pass on higher support guidelines so
they
can get more of the federal pie in incentive payments for
establishing
paternities, forcing fathers to pay for health insurance policies
and
forcibly taking ever-increasing percentages of their wages, all of
which
bring more of those federal dollars into the state.

When are they going to wake up and realize/admit the affect of the
measures that GET those federal dollars and where the damn federal
dollars came from in the first place? Balancing their budgets on
the
backs of children and their fathers is EVIL and every legislator
that
votes in support of these increases should be sitting in prison like
any
other admitted child abuser....

Mel Gamble

Editor - Child Support News wrote:

Child Support Suit
Associated Press

Two members of the state's child support advisory committee have
filed
a
lawsuit against acting Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Gorman
Houston
and other members of the committee, claiming they are operating in
a
secret
and unconstitutional manner.

Committee members James Blackston and Brad Barber filed suit last
week
against Houston, Lewis Gosa, chairman of the Advisory Committee on
Alabama
Child Support Guidelines and Enforcement, and other officials with
the
state
child support system.

Both men reside in Jefferson County and are non-custodial parents.

In March, the committee received a recommendation to raise the
child
support
guidelines by an average of 32-percent, meaning many non-custodial
parents
could pay almost a third more in child support than they do now.

Barber and Blackston allege that Houston and two others met
secretly
on
January eighth to issue a contract to Policy Studies Incorporated
to
review
the state's child support schedule. The agency recommended the
32-percent
increase.

Blackston and Barber contend the contract should have been
approved
by
the
entire committee.

Houston said Tuesday he wouldn't comment on the lawsuit until he
reviews
it
with the attorney general's office.