Just a reminder… there’s a request by the owner of another family rights website for letters to be sent to President Obama and his wife. Here’s what I received in email:

I’m going to give you a suggestion and hope with all my heart that you will act on this. Please print out this article and send it to your county’s District Attorney with a suggestion that he investigates your local CPS agency.

Prosecutor alleges ‘pattern of misconduct’ at DSHS

I could not be more excited! This article shows how the Stevens County prosecutor, Tim Rasmussen, spent months investigating CPS in North-East Washington state. He uncovered multiple incidents of severe corruption including:

1. Social workers giving a morphine drip to a baby that was not originally drug addicted.

2. Social workers subjecting children to sexual forensic exams when there were no allegations of molestation or abuse of any kind.

3. Social workers removing multiple children from their homes on very trivial and questionable charges.

Thank you, thank you, thank you Tim Rasmussen! Thank you for taking the time to investigate the complaints of traumatized parents. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and soul.

Do you know how many years I’ve been waiting for this to start happening?

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Thanks to dear Marina, one of the moderators at our FightCPS Message Board Forum, for posting the link to this article. You truly brightened my day!

I cannot believe how fortunate we are to have a high-energy, experienced and committed advocate like Nancy Schaefer of Georgia on our side. (Also Senator Pamela Roach of Washington!)

Here’s a recent speech given by Nancy Schaefer about CPS:

Here’s the link to the video where you can leave comments: Nancy Schaefer.
This is a link for a recent alert from her office: Alert from Nancy Schaefer re: David Ogden.
Thanks to Marlene Jones for sending this to FightCPS.

Washington grandparents Doug and AnneMarie Stuth have every right and reason to be caretakers of their three-year-old granddaughter, yet caseworkers at Child Protective Services are making up unreasonable justifications to keep the cute little blonde girl in foster care. They say the Stuth’s aren’t making an effort to support the child’s reunification with her teen mother, the Stuth’s daughter. Yet a KING5 news video report proves they have done everything in their power to help the mother have access to her child.

The Stuths made their case high-profile through going to their state legislators including Senator Pamela Roach, and to the news media. They are fighting the case in court. They are a good example for the many thousands of other grandparents who want custody of their grandchildren who have been placed in foster homes. The denial of kinship care rights to grandparents is one of the worst aspects of current child protective services corruption. CPS agencies want to adopt children out to strangers so they can qualify for federal subsidy bonuses.

Source: Investigators: Grandparents passed over in favor of foster care by Susannah Frame on December 11, 2008, for KING5 News. Be sure to read through all the related content on this article! This is a major exposé!

A word to CPS workers: The word is out… everyone knows how corrupt the CPS agencies are. Come out of your dark offices and admit to the world and to yourselves that you’ve done wrong. Good always triumphs over evil. The love of family overcomes the evil of family destruction. In time you will see this is true.

By Debra Braxton

1. Rely on God for inspiration. Write down things to check as God speaks. I continually tell God, “Thank you, I’ll check into that.”

3. Every state has a DSHS website. Have people search this, for knowledge is power. Records Request forms are there. Use them.

4. DSHS has both an Internet website and an Intranet website.
Google: DSHS Internet website; Then Google: DSHS Intranet website

5. Get CPS to provide a copy of their Policy and Operations Manual. They can print this out for the parent and it is free. I’m waiting on mine.

6. I bought a book called “Washington Court Rules” for the state. There are Washington Court Rules for the Federal side of the dependency case. Now this book will have a different title for each state of course. Find the dependency section and challenge CPS on this and your Pro bono attorney who works against you. It’s amazing how some attorneys dummy up when it comes to people like me and I surprise them with what I know. I am a paralegal student who wants to fight them long after the case is over.

7. DSHS falls under Administrative Law and everyone from Children’s Administration “CPS” from lowly case worker, supervisor, area administrator, regional manager, to assistant secretary at the DSHS Headquarters is liable for the shared decision making process they claim to use. So one mistake of one worker affects all, do you see?

8. Think outside the box to solve issues. Be unconventional. They won’t expect it and will be caught off guard.

9. Communicate in paper to all persons connected to the case and insist the people write back. I use emails and fax machines. Save this. It is ammunition later on and is considered a legal document.

10. Go to a law library located in County Superior Courts, or at a university that teaches law. Find the state’s rules book and look up juvenile court rules. Civil court rules and federal court rules as well. Also the website for the state legislature.

11. Go over the records repeatedly because God will tell you as he told me, “See this paper, the CPS didn’t do a recommendation properly.”

12. Whatever is discovered, put it in writing either as a letter or as a declaration. This way all parties of the court including the judge will be held accountable and the case may proceed to appeals court and this information could help the group of appeals judges with their decision.