alp comment-75101 2012-10-24T17:16:56Z 2012-10-24T17:16:56Z It's true, CPS puts up all kinds of road block to fight for your child. CPS main purpose is to reunite families. I find this hard to believe. I am a grandmother my daughter has is going through all cps demand. Now they want her to divorce her husband in order to get her children back. I think that is locust, cps refuse to give me my grandchild and has my granddaughter up for adoption 4/2013. I’m looking for a lawyer to help me fight cps. My granddaughter was born with a roar syndrome and could day at anytime. CPS as infringed on her right to die at home with family. alp 2012-10-24T17:16:56Z Hillcrest2012 comment-66736 2012-04-19T00:58:18Z 2012-04-19T00:58:18Z Please read about how San Diego attorney Shawn McMillan sued Orange county social services on behalf of parent, Ms. Deanna Hardwick for ten million dollars and won. Orange county social services' appeals were denied all the way to the US Supreme court. Everyone victimized by CPS needs to file a federal civil suit against them, have it reviewed by the judge, and the US courts will deliver the summons to the cps agency via US Marshall service. It is time to "hammer cps" as Shawn McMillan said. Hillcrest2012 2012-04-19T00:58:18Z Hillcrest2012 comment-66735 2012-04-19T00:55:27Z 2012-04-19T00:55:27Z Read about how San Diego attorney Shawn McMillan sued Orange county social services on behalf of parent Ms. Deanna Hardwick for 10 million dollars and won. Orange county social services appeals' were denied all the way to the US Supreme Court. Hillcrest2012 2012-04-19T00:55:27Z Joangeline101 comment-60420 2011-11-19T23:19:20Z 2011-11-19T23:19:20Z Somebody Please help me. I have been dragged through hell and back with the system. I am clean and sober and I work for the State of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as an Office Technician. I am trying to research CA Law and I have been told by several advocacy groups including Parent Advocates of Sacramento that the law was breeched in my case but my appointed legal council was unprepared and even though MY CHILDREN WERE NEVER TECHNICALLY REMOVED FROM ME and I did services voluntarily; I went into my first and only in-patient program in February of 2011 and placed them temporarily with their paternal grandmother and then based on their FATHER'S RELAPSE and her and him saying they felt my children were better off adopted out, they terminated my rights and fast tracked my children to adoption. I am fighting with all the life I have in me. I love my children so much and would do anything for them. I have been back to work since May of 2011 and despite all my clean tests, involvement in the community, employment and ability to care for my children, letters from my employers, etc. they still moved forward and the judge was abrasive in his addressing me in court and made several clearly prejudiced statements about his opinion about addiction/alcoholism and rehabilitation and identified events incorrectly, meshed details of my case completely together to where the sequence of events was depicted completely inaccurately... the social worker who was in charge of the recommendation identified a language barrier and said that she could not understand or communicate with me because she speaks english as a second language... and I was told that she had no legal requirement to speak with me at all but she conversed extesively with my children's father and his mother... Please, if someone can help me I can pay I just want to make sure that you are for real because I have been nearly scammed several times seeking help and I don't come from a rich family but I have a good job and can make payments. My phone number is (916) 271-9382 and my work number is (916) 323-1349. My name is Joangeling Anastasia O'Connor. Joangeline101 2011-11-19T23:19:20Z gammakat comment-58836 2011-10-19T14:54:55Z 2011-10-19T14:54:55Z I totally agree with this article. I am a grandmother who too late(maybe) has discovered how underhanded the system is. To date my daughters court appointed atty has listened to zero.has done zero. While in this case it is true that probably the bio Dad of the youngest child did abuse the baby. The oldest child always resided with me. Why? Because 4 months before the kids were taken(and a week before the baby was born) I had concerns. CPS decided it was unfounded. At that point I removed my oldest grandson from that home. He had only been there 1 night. 1 night too many. I did allow my grandson to go to visit Mom once for 2 hours and he observed something no 3 year old should see. My daughter called me immediately and I was at the apartment and had called police within 5 minutes.. I knew my daughter was not safe. I knew it while she was still a minor and called police 4 to 6 times a week since the overage boyfriend would not go away. Had him jailed twice. Reported him to probation etc. No ONE did anything. The system is set up in such a way that yyyyyes legally the Judge has to ask if any relative would like to speak. First time I addressed the Court the Judge said make it fast it's lunch time. From that point I knew no one was listening. Child advocates are supposed to be for the kids best interest in yet they will not talk to me. The social workers that oversee visits even realize the oldest child has no business in Foster care. No One listens.. I am fighting against the clock for an attorney. Economy sucks and I just finally found a job. I am willing to pay an atty every dime I earn for representation. By the time I get a pay check tho I only have 6 weeks. I keep praying an attorney that will fight will appear and either do ProBono to start representation now and be willing to trust that my oldest is so important to me that the entire fee will really be paid off in due time. ASAP gammakat 2011-10-19T14:54:55Z thsas comment-33403 2010-07-23T18:57:56Z 2010-07-23T18:57:56Z This is akin to saying auto accidents are 10 times more likely to occur on a public road than in a driveway. There is a problem with the CPS system, but your argument loses credibility when you city these types of spinning figures. I have met many parents who have lost their children to the foster care system, and the one thing 100% of them have in common: the state stole their kids for no good reason. PS: Everyone in prison got framed. Wanna buy a watch? thsas 2010-07-23T18:57:56Z texasroadrunner comment-33372 2010-07-23T01:11:25Z 2010-07-23T01:11:25Z Thank you for exposing this organized crime racket. CPS is a tax payer fueled, criminal enterprise that operates in the secret “family” court system apart from public scrutiny under the cloak and fog of “confidentiality” which protects its agents and collateral vendors from the crimes they commit under color of law. Children are 11 times more likely to be abused in State custody than in their own homes and 7 times more likely to DIE as a result of abuse while in the foster care system. (John Walsh Show April 16, 2003) Carmen Middleton BSN, RN Child "Protective" Services Destroyed My Family http://texasroadrunner.spaces.live.com/ texasroadrunner 2010-07-23T01:11:25Z Victor Stark,CSW comment-33236 2010-07-21T16:37:26Z 2010-07-21T16:37:26Z Hello, I do agree that confidentiality is a subject that is often in itself abused. In my opinion, CPS will continue to uphold confidentiality to the fullest extent as long as the public blames CPS for the death of abused children. I suggest that citizens vote to enact the death penalty for parents who abused their children to death, that is where the blame and accountability should be placed. www.onefatherslove.com Victor Stark,CSW 2010-07-21T16:37:26Z Hopeful comment-31092 2010-06-23T23:57:16Z 2010-06-23T23:57:16Z ARMENIAC and JUSTICE: I'd like to talk with you or correspond via e-mail. Please send your e-mail addresses or phone numbers to eopton@comcast.net. Thanks. Hopeful 2010-06-23T23:57:16Z tk1010 comment-28026 2010-05-25T22:51:43Z 2010-05-25T22:51:43Z It seems that the Sacramento Bee is either not reporting all of the info and are bias or they are not doing enough research. A sad predicament when kids lives are in limbo. Kudos to sharing this info. tk1010 2010-05-25T22:51:43Z resson comment-27790 2010-05-23T07:58:58Z 2010-05-23T07:58:58Z I am thankful to you for bringing this topic out into the open. I am not suprised by the allocated amounts received by the State of California of the 4,000. to 6,000. and may be more. I believe this could be, in the same amounts, contributed to the Family Preservation you have written in your article. We a a surviving family of the California viewpoint and programs, when I say surviving I mean, we our family of 2 Adults with Disabilities and 1 Child were given only 689, per month Cash Aid and denied alternative training to assist us to self sufficiency when we were disabled at our Long years of Customary Self Employment in the Labor Force, working for many of these Social Service, State Workers, Attorney at Law and many other Professionals hired us, to save a buck. Yet now they treat us with the stereotypical shun of below poverty program assistance. Would be nice to have 1/3 the money they receive for robbing children from their parents. I say SHAME to the State of California and all whom have really forgotten the Children. resson 2010-05-23T07:58:58Z justice comment-27627 2010-05-21T21:13:02Z 2010-05-21T21:13:02Z Thank God, CPS is so greedy for profit that it overloads the system with so many unwarranted cases, that it can't possibly give proper attention to the true and severe cases, which fall through the cracks. CPS is has gone unchecked for so long that , it is totally out of control. justice 2010-05-21T21:13:02Z armeniac comment-27202 2010-05-17T22:09:23Z 2010-05-17T22:09:23Z Bravo!!! CPS has been engaging in for profit ventures at th eexpense of California's children for too long. Keep spreading the word! armeniac 2010-05-17T22:09:23Z