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Arizona - It's high time that CPS, police communicate



 
 
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Default Arizona - It's high time that CPS, police communicate

It's high time that CPS, police communicate

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepu...berts0123.html

Jan. 23, 2008 12:00 AM
One of the last people to see Brandon Williams alive was a Pima County
sheriff's deputy. She had been assigned to check on him and his mother
last March at the request of the boy's grandfather.

While there, the deputy saw the bandages on the 5-year-old autistic
boy's legs and heard the mother's explanation that he'd fallen into a
cactus. She was suspicious enough that she sent a report to Child
Protective Services. CPS got it - seven days after Brandon was beaten to
death.

What that sheriff's deputy didn't know was that CPS had been looking for
the boy the previous fall, worried that he might be in danger due to his
mother's increasingly bizarre behavior. A caseworker even asked the
sheriff's office for help one day when she spotted mother and son in a
car. But the car got away and CPS gave up looking and word never
trickled down to the officers on the street.



Brandon died the day after that sheriff's deputy saw him, beaten, police
say, by his mother and a friend.

Brandon died because CPS couldn't find him and the police, who could,
didn't know caseworkers were looking for him.

Now there's a bill in the Legislature to correct that absurdity, one of
seven aimed at shoring up the agency that represents the last thin line
of defense for children in this state. "The biggest thing is opening up
records," said House Government Chairman Kirk Adams, who with Rep.
Jonathan Paton is leading the push for reform. "We believe that more
openness and transparency leads to more accountability. When people are
being watched they do things in the right way and when there's a veil of
secrecy, you see a system that doesn't operate in the right way."

Among their proposals is one that would require CPS to notify police
when they can't find a child they consider to be in danger, so that
maybe when an officer encounters a boy like Brandon, she'll know not to
walk away.

Paton says 400 to 700 children go missing on the agency's watch every
year, yet CPS has no system in place to ask police for help. "It was
easier for me in Iraq for Coalition forces to communicate with Iraqi
police than it is for CPS to communicate with the cops, apparently," he
said.

Another bill would open disciplinary files of state employees, so that
maybe supervisors will think twice before looking the other way when a
caseworker helps an abusive father hang on to his kids, and then starts
dating him.

Another would require CPS to obtain and abide by court orders, so that
maybe caseworkers don't tell police to leave children with a father
denied custody because he was violent. So that maybe kids like Ariana
and Tyler Payne live long enough to make it to kindergarten.

But the most important of the bills, by far, is the one that would open
CPS records in cases when a child dies of abuse or nearly so. This
newspaper had to sue to find out what happened to Brandon and Tyler and
Ariana. State law bars CPS from releasing the records, due to privacy.

Why a dead child needs privacy is beyond me. I can see, however, why CPS
might want it. The law has for far too long allowed bureaucrats to hide
their foul-ups and failures to follow through. Even now, this newspaper
is headed back to court because CPS is contesting release of the full
record of their involvement with 12-year-old Trenay Duchane, who was
beaten, scalded and left to die in November.

Maybe this is one of those cases, unlike with Brandon and Ariana and
Tyler, where CPS did all it could. Maybe no one could have saved Trenay.
But there's no way to know if we can't see the records and history
suggests that there's no way CPS will mend the holes that let children
fall to their graves if we don't find a way to lift that well-worn rug
they're standing on.

You know, to see what they've swept under the thing.



Reach Roberts at laurie or 602-444-8635.
Read her blog at robertsblog.azcentral.com.



CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A
DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL
SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS....

CPS Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of Child Protective Services.

every parent should read this .pdf from
connecticut dcf watch...

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com/8x11.pdf

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com

Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS

*Perpetrators of Maltreatment*

Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13
Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS 14 Parents 12
Fatalities CPS 6.4, Parents 1.5

Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse
and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the
citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold
parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.


CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT
FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON...


BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...



"SAVE THE FAMILY AND YOU SAVE THE CHILD"
 




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