Entries Tagged as 'Cases In The News'

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Oregon CPS Worker Tells it how it Really Is

http://blog.oregonlive.com/myoregon/2008/11/child_or_agency_protection_1.html Estimates I’ve come across in my research reckon that between one-third and two-thirds of those children currently in foster care nationally should be living with their parents. Furthermore, it has become undeniable that despite many saintly foster parents the government makes a poor parent. The research shows unequivocally that CPS should be loathe to [...]

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors’ kids

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090929/ap_on_re_us/us_baby_sitter_backlash_mich By JAMES PRICHARD, Associated Press Writer James Prichard, Associated Press Writer – Tue Sep 29, 7:23 pm ET IRVING TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood’s children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about [...]

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Living Meager- Is it Against the Law?

You wake up in the morning to the sound of birds. Zipping open your door you greet your neighbor, a figure climbing out of their front door- their tent. This is what a few families have been forced to do for a living, tents in the wilderness complete with pantry and Port-a-potty. But included in [...]

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Family Found Slain After CPS deems Household Safe

Family Found Slain After CPS deems Household Safe This story that has recently hit the news headlines of a father who killed his wife and five kids is evidence that CPS is broken. It’s not that CPS didn’t do enough, or that they did too much to cause this father to kill his family. The [...]

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

Children Were Taken Into Protective Custody Over Pictures Taken at Bath Time

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/parents-sue-wal-mart-children-bath-time-photos/Story?id=8622696&page=2 Couple Sues Wal-Mart for Calling Cops Over Bath Time Photos Children Were Taken Into Protective Custody Over Pictures Taken at Bath Time By DAN PRZYGODA PEORIA, Ariz., Sept. 20, 2009 For Lisa Demaree and her husband A.J., it was the hardest time of their lives. It all began a year ago, when the Demarees [...]

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Texas police rob & shake down drivers, lawsuit claims

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/05/texas.police.seizures/index.html From Gary Tuchman and Katherine Wojtecki CNN’s “AC360°” “The Tennessee man says he was ordered to pull his car over and surrender his jewelry and $8,500 in cash that he had with him to buy a new car. But Daniels couldn’t go to the police to report the incident. The men who stopped him [...]

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