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Default ELDORADO, Raid, aftermath's early cost: $7.5 million

ELDORADO
Raid, aftermath's early cost: $7.5 million

http://www.statesman.com/news/conten...radocosts.html

Senate panel to examine expenses of largest child removal in U.S.
By Corrie MacLaggan
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Friday, May 16, 2008

The massive child welfare operation that began in early April with a
state raid of a West Texas ranch owned by a polygamous sect cost nearly
$7.5 million in the first 19 days, according to records from Gov. Rick
Perry's office.

A spokeswoman for Perry cautioned that the numbers — obtained through
the Texas Public Information Act — are preliminary and unaudited, and
Perry's office has yet to release official costs.

But the numbers do reveal clues about the financial impact of what Texas
officials have said is the largest removal of children in U.S. history.

Expenses have ranged from housing and feeding more than 400 children in
shelters in San Angelo to busing them to foster care around the state.
And the costs are likely to grow; it could be a year before Child
Protective Services and the courts sort out whether the children —
removed because of what state officials say is a pattern of abuse — can
return to their parents.

"Everyone recognized that resources were going to be necessary in order
to achieve a fair outcome here," said state Sen. Robert Duncan,
R-Lubbock, whose district includes Eldorado's Yearning for Zion Ranch,
owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Duncan is a member of the Senate Finance Committee, which will examine
Eldorado expenses during a Capitol hearing Tuesday.

Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Tom Craddick have
authorized state agencies to spend money from their 2009 budgets early
to cover costs of the operation. What's still not clear is how the
agencies will be reimbursed. One option is for agencies to tap into
money left unspent at the end of the budget year; another is for the
Legislature to make an emergency appropriation at the beginning of the
2009 session.

"Often times when you have emergencies like this, that's how you handle
it," Duncan said of making an appropriation next session.

City and county governments are submitting expenses to state agencies.

State Comptroller Susan Combs told Dewhurst, Craddick and Perry in a
letter that she plans to work to "utilize funding allocated in the
current state budget to cover the allowable emergency costs."

But some government officials aren't sure what "allowable emergency
costs" include, and that's making them nervous.

Tom Green County Treasurer Dianna Spieker said: "We're operating under
faith" that the county will be reimbursed. She said last week her county
had spent $70,000 on everything from overtime for law enforcement to
paying the road and bridge department to set up barricades.

State Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, a member of the finance panel,
said the operation is largely a state responsibility.

"We should reimburse local agencies as soon as possible for any action
they have taken that is state responsibility," she said.

Technically, many of the court costs are the responsibility of the
counties, but state leaders say they plan to use state money.

"We can't wash our hands from it — we're the ones who did it," said
state Sen. Bob Deuell, R-Greenville, a member of the Finance Committee.
"I hope it turns out it was the right thing to do."

Some lawyers who volunteered to represent the children are now wondering
what they've gotten into financially. Susan Hays of Dallas, an attorney
for a young girl, said she's spent nearly $1,000, mostly on gas to visit
her client in East Texas and the client's mother in San Antonio.

"We were all told it was a one-day hearing," she said. "My case is now
spread out all over the state. The Legislature is going to have to do
something."

State agencies incurred the bulk of the $7.5 million — $5.3 million.

Stephanie Goodman, a spokeswoman for the Health and Human Services
Commission, said her agency is reviewing Eldorado cost estimates from
the state health department and Child Protective Services to make sure
they are additional costs incurred because of the operation.

A draft document from the governor's office showed that the Office of
Court Administration projected in late April that court costs for the
civil and any criminal cases could be about $1.8 million, including
everything from expert witnesses to jury pay.

Glenna Bowman, chief financial officer for the office, said Thursday
that the next draft of her estimate will be closer to $2.2 million.

"We're trying to look into our crystal ball," she said.

State agency costs

Department of Family and Protective Services $2,174,302

Health and Human Services Commission $1,045,656

Department of Public Safety $970,000

Department of State Health Services $930,563

Other state agencies $191,828

Total state agency costs $5,312,349

Volunteer organization costs

Salvation Army $51,302

Other $8,251

Total volunteer organization costs $59,553

Vendor costs

Bus costs $633,736

Baptist Child & Family Services $527,236

Wells Fargo Pavilion $10,100

Total vendor costs $1,171,072

City and county government costs

City of San Angelo $820,000

Tom Green County Not available

Schleicher County $81,607

Other $42,727

Total city, county government costs $944,334

TOTAL ESTIMATED COSTS $7,487,308

Source: Governor's Division of Emergency Management preliminary,
unaudited estimates

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CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY
GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & 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 the free handbook from
connecticut dcf watch..

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/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13
Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12
Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological 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...
 




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