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Congressman wants U.S. Attorney General to investigate Michigan Child Protective Services - 0 views

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shared by Stephen Boyle on 26 May 12 - No Cached
  • So now he’s calling on U.S.  Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate what’s been happening in Michigan
  • “The most important right, constitutionally and God-given right we have is to be able to raise our children. So that’s why I’m going to the attorney general right now to see how we can keep our families together,”  Rep. Hansen Clarke, (D) 13th District, told 7 Action News Investigator Heather Catallo.
  • Testimony under oath in the Godboldo case revealed that probation officers inside the court would routinely stamp Presiding Juvenile Court Judge Leslie Kim Smith’s name onto the removal orders.  By law, a judge must review the CPS workers allegations of abuse, and then sign the order. After we reported on the rubber stamping that legal experts say is against the law – the court stopped doing it.  But we still asked the court and DHS to tell us how long it had been going on, and how many children were taken from their parents illegally.  Judge Smith was not interested in answering our questions.
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  • we shouldn’t be penalizing women because they’re struggling financially by taking away their children
  • DHS Director Maura D. Corrigan issued this written statement: “The department welcomes a dialogue with Rep. Clarke, as we do with all legislators.  We can assure the representative that despite his concerns based on a small number of local cases out of the nearly 100,000 child welfare cases the department investigates each year statewide, that DHS focuses solely on the welfare of the child without regard to race.”
  • Stephen Boyle on 26 May 12
     
    Hansen Clarke asking Eric Holder, US Attorney General to investigate Michigan Department of Human Services and Child Protective Services. Claims of racial profiling and unjust actions toward families in poverty.
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