If you are receiving social assistance, you can file in any court and have apply to have the fees waived. That's right, use your social welfare for social justice.
The average person who has been terrorized and tortured by a state child protective services, the courts and child placing agencies is poor because poverty is codified as abuse and neglect.
The average person will not find an attorney who is knowledgeable or competent to take on a case.
The average person cannot afford to hire an attorney and, for the most part, attorneys will not take on these cases as it will damage their careers and run risks of facing retaliation from the state which licensed them.
So, the average person is left with no recourse, allowing fraud, waste and abuse to flourish within the child welfare system.
But alas, do not fret. There is opportunity for justice. When a person files for themselves in a court of law it is more than attempting to get money and winning a case. The court is a venue of public speaking. A person who has survived the child welfare system can publish, or rather expose the hell, under oath.
Not only that, law and policy can be made from the reading of a person's complaint. Besides, no attorney will take on cases such as this because there is no money to be made in making law and policy.
Beyond this, satisfaction can be had even though a person who files for themselves will never win the case. The retribution of being thrusted into the hell of child welfare can be had in the knowledge that each individual you name as a defendant in their personal capacity of a child placing agency will end up draining their life savings, mortgaging their homes and losing their jobs just to pay an attorney to fight your case you filed because you are on social assistance because they destroyed your life.
So, again, my advice to every individual who went to child welfare hell, survived and bought the rhinestone t-shirt to prove it, preserve your story and publish everyone's name in the public record of the court. Opinions of the court are publicly accessible on the internet and everyone involved names' will pop up in a google search!
If they can put you on a registry, then I say we put them on one!
Children's Rights might be capable of making a killing in attorney fees defending the child welfare fraud, but we can expose it. For those of you who have had children Legally Kidnapped or who have been Legally Kidnapped, this is great way of passing on your legacy and rewrite the history of this nation. Everyone will be able to see what you did to fight for social justice and your information will be out there for families to reconnect.
Make your children proud and show them you fought injustice to make history. This is our legacy.
ENID — The former chairman of the Department of Human Services Commission says overall, he is satisfied with the system as it has been set up in regard to handling child welfare cases; however, in several high-profile cases, “the people didn’t work.”
Retired Enid dentist Richard DeVaughn recently stepped down as chairman, but he continues to serve on the commission. DeVaughn is part of a nine-member governing board of the agency, which has more than 7,000 employees.
DeVaughn spoke to Enid Rotarians on Monday about the recent news regarding DHS, and also pointed out some statistics regarding what the department does and how it relates to Garfield County.
DeVaughn said anytime there is an incident or death, the case is reviewed to see whether there is a better way to respond or improve. However, he said the reality is not all child deaths can be prevented.
In his remarks, DeVaughn was critical of news coverage of the agency’s issues with some high-profile child welfare cases, as well as a lawsuit filed several years ago by a national group called Children’s Rights, a New York-based child advocacy organization.
“Children’s rights has nothing to do with this lawsuit,” DeVaughn said. “It is all about money.”
He pointed out the same legal group has filed similar lawsuits in many states, and said it has been known to flood litigants with mountains of paperwork. DeVaughn said officials in other states going through similar lawsuits advised DHS to seek outside counsel to fight the lawsuit.
Recent developments in the case deal with its status as a class-action lawsuit. If the class-action status is dismissed, DeVaughn believes the group will back away because “there is no money in it.” The ruling should come down in late November or early December, he said.
DeVaughn also addressed the recent development of a state task force that has been assigned by House Speaker Kris Steele to look into the agency following the death this past summer of Serenity Deal. The 5-year-old’s death, allegedly at the hands of her biological father, sparked controversy and brought DHS into the spotlight, bringing the commission under intense scrutiny by lawmakers and the general public. Two DHS employees were fired in the wake of the case, and another who was on leave in the case committed suicide.
DeVaughn said there have been numerous allegations in the press regarding DHS and child deaths, and many of them are erroneous. He commented specifically on one legislator’s recent accusation 50 children a year died of abuse and neglect in DHS custody.
He said University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center has a child abuse and child neglect section that keeps data on child abuse deaths in Oklahoma. That section audits DHS numbers.
“Over the last 10 years, 129 children died in Oklahoma that were in foster care,” DeVaughn said. “Fifty-four died of natural causes, 37 came in from abuse or neglect of biological parents or other adults that died soon after from the abuse and neglect they received from their biological parents. Seven children died from abuse and neglect in a resource home — that’s seven a year, which is still too many.
“Ten died from undetermined causes and two are still pending investigation. You won’t read that in the paper or see that.”
DeVaughn said $120 million in cuts to the DHS budget and the loss of nearly 1,000 experienced workers in the past four years have strapped the agency. He wouldn’t comment on specific recommendations he might have for the task force.
During his presentation, DeVaughn praised the work of the agency, which handles a large caseload with fewer and fewer resources.
He said OKDHS was featured in a new book detailing some of the world’s most high-performing project management offices, or PMOs. An inside look at high-performing PMOs was released Oct. 1, and that list named the state’s DHS as the recipient of the PMO of the Year award.
“Our state is financially strapped and we have lots and lots of problems,” DeVaughn said. “We’re No. 1 in the nation in incarceration of women, we’re No. 1 in the nation in divorce rate per capita, and we have half our children in the state on food stamps or receiving Sooner Care. We’ve got lots and lots of problems out there that is, frankly, going to take money to fix, whether we like it or not.
“We can’t keep sticking our heads in the sand, thinking its going to go away. We’re going to need strong leadership like we have to solve some of these problems.”
We are the leaders.
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