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Child-abuse claims vs. parents' rights |
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Supreme Court mulls whether to take a suit accusing Illinois of forcing families to give up rights.
By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
from the June 12, 2008 edition
Washington - The US Supreme
Court is being asked to determine whether procedures used in Illinois
to investigate allegations of child abuse or neglect violate the
fundamental rights of parents.
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Hard lemonade, hard price |
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Dad's
oversight at Tigers game lands son in foster care
A number
of people have sent us this story and we wanted to share it with our
readers. If the case that child protective services needs oversight
hasn't been persuasive enough so far, maybe reading this story will be
convincing.
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The Family Defense Center Responds to Texas Child Protection Case |
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By Melissa Staas, Staff Attorney
May 27, 2008
Six weeks after the Eldorado, Texas raid in which child-protection officials ripped more than 450 children-one-half of whom were under the age of five-years-old-from their parents, the Texas Court of Appeals affirmed that even when political issues of religion, polygamy, and the alleged sexual abuse of minors are at stake, our society is to be a government of laws, and not of men.
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10-year legal fight ends over DCFS rules |
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By Ofelia Casillas, Tribune staff reporter
February 23, 2007
A federal judge ended a 10-year legal fight Thursday, approving a settlement between the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and child-care professionals accused of abuse or neglect.
The settlement, reached in 2003 and largely in effect since then, gives more rights to those under investigation by DCFS and provides more checks against the agency's power. But working out the details of the settlement proved daunting, dragging the case out for four more years.
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FBI, State Investigate Drug Firm |
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The Chicago Tribune's lead article today (Wednesday January 31, 2007) has
the headline "FBI, state investigate drug firm." The article
concerns billing fraud by a DCFS-contract agency K.K. Bio-Science Inc. It
reports that the current FBI probe follows a DCFS Office of Inspector General
report. It does not state when, in the 15 year history of the contract with this
company, questions about their fraudulent billing practices first arose or how
those concerns came to the OIG's attention.
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