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KIN Placement not FC in WA, it's happening....Richland DSHS
It started on this Newsgroup toward the end of 2003.
From: Redacted contact by email Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:43 PM Subject: We were heard! Today was the most glorious day we have had in our fight against the Richland Department of Children and Family Services since we banded together scarcely two months ago! When I was called to testify before the Senate Hearing Committee this morning, Sen. Stevens told me it was a like a prayer being answered...they said they were just reading the Lewis Co. News article about the corruption in Richland, and wanted to talk to me, and then I walked through the door! They gave me enough time to not only testify, but each committee member asked intensive questions until they understood the magnitude of the problem. They accepted the written documents from the other families, and promised to read them and they assured us they would clean this department up! It was on public access channel 23 for anyone in Washington State...it should run through the weekend. What a ruckus a classified ad can make! And what a ruckus a group of outraged relatives can make! The Senate Committee was already familiar with our plight because of the media coverage, and wanted us to tell them, unscripted and in our own words, our stories and especially the names of the workers who have illegally adopted our children from us. They were compassionate, infuriated with Richland and supportive of us...they said to report any retaliation directly to them, and they would handle it. They said they HEARD us, and they are focused on helping us, and demanded that the Representative the State sent in (the one who re-assured them they had safeguards internally to handle any misconduct on the part of the department) file a report with them telling how many State Workers had been fired for misconduct. Sen. Hargrove said to them "I'll bet there isn't one"...it was awesome to watch. They also want a report as to why the children weren't being placed with relatives in the first place...then they dismissed the Representative! They asked why my cousin hadn't been placed with me nearly 6 months ago. The committee was stunned when I told them my relative status had been terminated when Jessica was made legally free, just 24 hours before they promised to make me a "party to the case"...and they said the department couldn't do that. This Senate Committee is just awesome, and I will campaign for them to be re-elected, because these are the kind of Senators we NEED! I believe we will be able to bring these children home...we are now going after the Judges and Commissioners...they can be disbarred if we can prove misconduct, and we feel that we can. Same tactics...dozens of complaints, media attention, and more complaints...we are filing dozens of civil suits against the case workers and their supervisors, which will aid us in our class action suit. Do you realize it is barely 2 months since the first classified ad was placed in the TriCity Herald? Can you see the impact a $16.00 ad can make?...Place your ad, keep in close touch with your contacts, they are what gives you strength. Start going through the steps and do everything aggressively. And DON'T let them "Blow you out of the water!"... |
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