Sunday, April 25, 2010

Kentucky Hit With Social Worker Whistleblower Suit

Boy, I would love to get my hands on the actual complaint. I like the way the articles briefly glances over the "reported violations." This should be an interesting case because Kentucky has no false claims act.

Perhaps Representative Tom Burch can introduce one.

Social worker files 'whistleblower' suit against state
state employee files 'whistle-blower' suit

By Valarie Honeycutt Spears - vhoneycutt@herald-leader.com

A state social worker filed a "whistle-blower" lawsuit Friday alleging that Kentucky officials disciplined him because he reported violations by fellow social workers, including the placement of children in the homes of registered sex offenders.

In the suit, filed in Franklin Circuit Court against the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Clay Clement said that in September he complained to the cabinet's inspector general about two cases in which children younger than 4 were placed in the care of registered sex offenders without the cabinet taking any safety precautions or notifying law enforcement.

Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2010/04/24/1237346/social-worker-files-whistleblower.html#ixzz0m5SpmXNt

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

shepherdsville ky. dept.of social services needs to be investigated as well. for wrong doings and covering up things they have in their files and failing to report claiming they knew nothing about it and that it wasnt their place to report welfare fraud on this mother plus they know this mother is living here and there and they are doing nothing to help her children the boys should be removed from the mothers care but you have a social as well as the person over her head saying it dont matter as long as she has a roof over their heads this mother is a drug user her own children have told that along with some other things and they still allow this woman to keep her boysand at the same time this woman is lying bringing up false allegations on my brother who has three children with her and they were removed from my brothers home and placed in foster care where my brothers three year old baby who has never ever been mistreated and the foster parents would try to make him eat things he didnt like and he would gag they told the older brother if he didnt eat what they put in front of him them he gets nothing so they would take him and lock him in a room by himself and let him cry the older brother brought this up to christy harrold social worker and she failed to do nothing like checking up on the kids it took an out side person to call in order for all three of my brothers children to be moved from that foster home.. i just feel like this social worker is out to hang my brother.. i have reported to the inspector generals office, and my brother has tried talking to christy as well as the supervisor over her head and we can get know where with them when this social admits to my brother behind closed doors that she made a mistake and should have not let the false allegations that was brought up in court and that my brother was served with to never have been brought up in front of the judge we are at a loss here with so many false allegations being made by the dept. of social services as well as my brothers 16 year old out of control teenage daughter thanks for taking the time to read this and if anyone reading this has any advice please post it on the thread i will be checking back !!

Anonymous said...

shepherdsville ky. dept.of social services needs to be investigated as well. for wrong doings and covering up things they have in their files and failing to report claiming they knew nothing about it and that it wasnt their place to report welfare fraud on this mother plus they know this mother is living here and there and they are doing nothing to help her children the boys should be removed from the mothers care but you have a social as well as the person over her head saying it dont matter as long as she has a roof over their heads this mother is a drug user her own children have told that along with some other things and they still allow this woman to keep her boysand at the same time this woman is lying bringing up false allegations on my brother who has three children with her and they were removed from my brothers home and placed in foster care where my brothers three year old baby who has never ever been mistreated and the foster parents would try to make him eat things he didnt like and he would gag they told the older brother if he didnt eat what they put in front of him them he gets nothing so they would take him and lock him in a room by himself and let him cry the older brother brought this up to christy harrold social worker and she failed to do nothing like checking up on the kids it took an out side person to call in order for all three of my brothers children to be moved from that foster home.. i just feel like this social worker is out to hang my brother.. i have reported to the inspector generals office, and my brother has tried talking to christy as well as the supervisor over her head and we can get know where with them when this social admits to my brother behind closed doors that she made a mistake and should have not let the false allegations that was brought up in court and that my brother was served with to never have been brought up in front of the judge we are at a loss here with so many false allegations being made by the dept. of social services as well as my brothers 16 year old out of control teenage daughter thanks for taking the time to read this and if anyone reading this has any advice please post it on the thread i will be checking back !!