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7Th Circuit Court Rules That A Social Worker Violated The 4th Amendment By Strip Searching Children http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977351149&grpId=3659174697241980&nav=Groupspace by Rob Port May 22, 2008 09:36 AM EDT views: 159 The gist of it is that a social worker who...

State agrees to pay $850,000 to former Lauderdale Lakes foster child By Jon Burstein | South Florida Sun-Sentinel 11:01 PM EDT, June 4, 2008 http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbcalhoun0605sbjun05,0,272804.story The state Department of Children & Families has reached an...

State Investigates Foster Care Agency for Over billing http://www.kmtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8371878 Omaha, NE - The Nebraska State Patrol and the Department of Health and Human Services are investigating Sigma Treatment Foster Care in Omaha for alleged over billing. A spokesperson for HHS...

Who's Kids Are They Anyway? By Mike Gallagher http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/MikeGallagher/2008/05/23/whos_kids_are_they_anyway?page=full&comments=true I'm not sure that I have ever been so relieved to see a headline. "Court Rules Removal of Children From FLDS Compound was Illegal."

N. CAROLINA TO PAY $23.8M TO RESOLVE OVERBILLING ALLEGATIONS FOR STATES FOSTER CARE & CHILDCARE SERVICES http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pjus/is_200309/ai_1007958931 WASHINGTON, D.C. - North Carolina has agreed to pay the United States $23.8 million to resolve multiple allegations of...

Riverview Man Arrested, Charged With Falsifying DCF Records By HOWARD ALTMAN and MIKE WELLS http://brandonnews2.tbo.com/content/2008/may/22/tampa-man-arrested-charged-falsifying-dcf-records/ The Tampa Tribune Published: May 22, 2008

Protection Racket They didn’t do it for the children. By Timothy Lynch http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGQzZjkwNTM3NjI0NGU1NDQyMWI0YjYyM2NlODAzZmI= Court proceedings are underway in Texas to sort out the controversial seizure of 465 children from the religious sect near Eldorado. A Texas...

Campaign stands up for foster children's plight Exhibit of cardboard cutouts represents their struggles http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/363605_foster19.html By JUDY HOLLAND P-I WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON -- Life-size cardboard cutouts of children will start springing up on the National...

Report: Abuse of foster kids up in Fulton, Dekalb http://www.ajc.com/health/content/metro/stories/2008/05/14/dfcs_0515.html By CRAIG SCHNEIDER The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 05/14/08 The combined rates of abuse and neglect of foster children continue to rise in Fulton and DeKalb...

Dad accuses foster mom of mistreating boys http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S450906.shtml?cat=300 TROY - More allegations are being made against a foster mother accused of mistreating her son. A father of two boys who were in Sharmon Evans' foster care says he wants to know why social services...

Baby Dies In Custody Of DCF Employee http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-fosterbaby0521.artmay21,0,2436541.story By HILDA MUÑOZ And CHRISTINE DEMPSEY | Courant Staff Writers May 21, 2008 Less than two weeks after the state Department of Children and Families took his son, Michael...

San Carlos man to plead guilty in foster-child rape By AMY BENNETT WILLIAMS • • May 21, 2008 http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080521/SS08/805210390/1075 A San Carlos Park man intends to plead guilty to charges he raped his teenage foster...

Foster mom gets prison for beating kids http://www.kptm.com/Global/story.asp?S=8351699&nav=menu606_2 Associated Press - May 20, 2008 9:25 AM ET FREMONT, Neb. (AP) - A Fremont woman who used a back scratcher to beat her foster children has been sent to prison. A Dodge County district judge gave...

With no 'Sarah,' CPS asks to drop her case Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5791129.html SAN ANGELO — It was the call for help that launched one of the largest raids on a religious compound in U.S. history.

Special Report - A Parent's Rights http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8349522 INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The birth of a baby should be one of the most exciting moments a couple will ever experience. But an aggressive campaign by the state to screen newborn infants turned that moment into a...

Foster Mother’s Pain Patch Is Believed Responsible in 6-Year-Old Girl’s Death http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/nyregion/20patch.html?ref=nyregion By AL BAKER Published: May 20, 2008 A foster mother in Harlem has been arrested and accused of accidentally killing a 6-year-old girl in her...

Mom says state using her IQ, lawsuit to keep kids in foster care By DEBORAH CIRCELLI Staff writer http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/EastVolusia/evlHEAD01EAST052008.htm DAYTONA BEACH -- Brightly colored shirts and lacy dresses hang still in a packed closet, where they've...

YFZ Children Lived in Separate Homes By Donald Richter http://www.truthwillprevail.org/ Ever since the raid on the YFZ community last month, news reports and reader comments have referred to the FLDS children taken into custody as having been part of a communal living arrangement or a...

Veil of secrecy must be lifted from CPS http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2008/05/18/opinion/editorials/doc482e06dda4ec8797865100.txt By Rick Schneider, Publisher Published on Sunday, May 18, 2008 1:40 PM MST Three bills are winding their way through the legislative process that will bring much...

America's Courts: Threatens us in ways you never imagined. Melinda Pillsbury-Foster http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/62369 May 20, 2008 Government views you as a source of income. You need to know that to protect yourself. More people are learning every day that at every point where...