Showing posts with label Stephanie Jezowski. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephanie Jezowski. Show all posts

Sunday, September 1, 2019

Michigan To Pretend To Let The Public Know Why Kids Die In Michigan Foster Care - Drugging, Rapes, Tortures, Suicides & Child Trafficking Still A Legislative Tautology


Here we go 'round Michigan Drugging Kids,
Rapes and Death,
Rapes and Death, 
Here we get 'round getting indicted
In another legislative tautology. 

FUN FACT! A DEATH IN THE MICHIGAN CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM IS CALLED A STATISTICAL "ERROR".


Ricky Holland never got a chance to sing this song because he was murdered in Michigan's Child Welfare System.

The other little boy was too doped up being used as a lab rat, to understand what it is like to sing.

Here is a perfect method to stop deaths in Michigan's Child Welfare System.

Shut it down.

Federal receivership.

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=ricky+holland
Ricky Holland's death saved the lives of two little boys.

Dismantle the Office of Children's Ombudsman and let local peace officers make referrals for
assistance, like calling one of the relatives or someone who cares to step in and help the family.

Stop stealin' the children, the land and the votes.

Stop making people poor.

If there is a crime, put it through law enforcement channels of due process.

Take a big red marker and rescind the entire Child Welfare Law in Michigan, but you will have to start with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, first.

Prosecute everyone at the Michigan Children's Institute in a federal jurisdiction, where I can come up with lots of antitrust law violations to start, and I would not dismiss the idea of war crimes.

Revoke the licenses, dissolve contracts, prosecute and recover every single last penny from these foreign corporate, privately contracted Child Placing Agencies, where you can start with the Michigan Catholic Conference.

Every "Elected One" who has taken political campaign funding from child welfare NGOs should be defrocked of office.

Commence federal asset forfeiture for every pharmaceutical which has engaged in drugging of Michigan's drugging of children, including every use of Foster Children as lab rats.

I understand that these concepts of trafficking tiny humans for revenue maximization of foreign corporations in Michigan are going to be difficult to understand, but that is why we have a justice system and hand held devices to watch as it goes down, in real time.

What about the Foster Children who are raped, denied education, beaten, tortured or will these continue to be omitted from the public discourse as "Valid-Not-Opened" category of investigations of the Children's Ombudsman Office?

Anyway, this is not the first time the concept of fixin' to do somethin' has come up in legislative initiatives because this has been going on since the Emancipation Proclamation because it all started here, in Michigan.

I believe the public should be able to see the billions upon billions profited off children of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) and the faces of those "Elected Ones" who did absolutely nothing but take another fashion show selfie.

Will Nancy Edmunds do anything besides let Michigan drop another $100 million to the people who already got $200 million for a antiquated SACWIS that needs to be sent back to the 20th century from whence it came?

Probably not, but I bet more children will be beaten, drugged, raped, tortured, attempt suicide and successfully execute suicide to escape from Foster Care, while Nancy Edmunds allows the case to linger another decade in her courtroom.

This may be a tall order but it is always best to understand that not everyone can eat an entire bowl of rice at one time, and, in this instance we shall start with two grains of rice, the first being Ricky Holland, who died, brutally, and another little boy, who used to die, then come back, and die, and be drugged more, raped, beaten, tortured, die, then come back to survive a life of hell in Michigan's Foster Care System.

No one cares, so have a great day!

Panel: Public should see findings on child deaths in Michigan welfare system

Lansing – A legislative oversight panel says the public should see the results of state investigations into the deaths of children who are involved with Michigan’s child welfare system.

The recommendation was included in a report adopted unanimously Thursday by the House Oversight Committee. It stems from lawmakers’ review of an audit released in April that found that the state Department of Health and Human Services did not notify the Office of Children’s Ombudsman of 206, or 20%, of child deaths from 2014 through 2017 because workers did not check a box in a cumbersome software system.

The office independently investigates complaints involving children who are under state oversight for reasons of abuse or neglect, and checks to see if public or private agencies followed laws and policies.

Current law only lets people who can file complaints with the ombudsman’s office – including parents, guardians, their attorneys, mandated reporters or legislators – get the written findings, recommendations and DHHS response to the ombudsman’s investigation. The House panel recommended that the ombudsman be required or allowed to publicly release the information.

A similar recommendation was made by the children’s ombudsman in her most recent annual report.

“This is an issue of transparency. It’s an issue of accountability,” said Rep. Matt Hall, a Marshall Republican who chairs the committee.

Another recommendation would give the ombudsman discretion to do preliminary investigations – not full reviews – in child death cases, freeing the agency to focus on complaints involving living children who remain in the system.

Children’s Ombudsman Lisa McCormick, who was appointed to the post by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in January, told lawmakers in June that there is value in looking at every child death but her office should have leeway, particularly because some deaths are accidental and not the result of violence.

“When you have the discretion to make those decisions on which cases you fully investigate, you can focus your attention on the real issues in child welfare and address those,” she said.

Rep. David LaGrand, a Grand Rapids Democrat, said there are instances where “death happens for some tragic reason that had nothing to do with good parenting. To put those parents through a complete investigation when early on you are confident that this was not anything the parents could have or should have done differently is to put traumatized people through a really crummy experience.”

The panel also said whatever software replaces the failed MiSACWIS system should provide a more efficient way for child deaths to be reported to the ombudsman.

The state is pulling the plug on the network that was rolled out in 2014 and which has cost more than $200 million to build and service.

In March, U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds told state officials to come up with a solution after an expert reported an “unmanageable backlog of defects, incidents, and data fixes” that might never end.


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Sunday, August 11, 2019

Statement Of Stephanie Jezowski On The Decade Lingering Nancy Edmund Case Of Children's Rights v. Michigan Child Welfare System

The following links are introductions to the history of the soon to be two decades long case on the horrors of Michigan Child Welfare System in the Michigan Eastern District Court, Nancy Edmunds, presiding.

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=children%27s+rights

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=nancy+edmunds

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=stephanie+jezowski

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=sacwis

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=OCO

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=MCI

Dear Governor Whitmer, Attorney General Nessel, and other members of the Legislature,

I am reaching out to you all today with the hope that discussions can finally take place about some very serious issues within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.  As someone that has been working with families for a number of years that are involved with CPS and by means of my own investigating, I must make you all aware of the situation.

I have sent this document to the court and parties involved in the Dwayne B. lawsuit filed by Children's Rights and intend to follow up with Federal agencies as well.  I would have provided far more, but current state laws do not allow me to do so and without legal permission, I can only relay what I know and have come across.

While the last year we have heard horror stories about how immigrant kids are being ripped from their families and the permanent damage that it does to them, the same thing is happening right in our own backyards and it is not getting any attention.  Why is that? I can think of several reasons with the primary one being the fallacy that MDHHS propagates that they only get involved and remove kids when it is truly necessary.  That gets compounded by the fact that investigations get derailed by their privacy claims yet you all can have people sign waivers to help get families food stamps, Medicaid and work out Disability issues.  How is health information any less sensitive?  And why in the last year, have two separate entities with one being the Auditor General had to sue to get information that they are allowed to have?

As you will see in my Notice, the reason seems to be that the Department has far too much to hide and that Child Welfare is in worse shape than anyone has been allowed to know.  We are talking at least half a dozen deaths because of their failures that I have been able to find, and there are likely far more.  That doesn't include the two adult deaths that happened in two murder suicides that took the lives of 4 children.  There are other considerable failures that also need to be addressed.

It was my goal to summarize as best as possible and to show how there are consistent issues that no one seems to be properly addressing and that includes the Judicial Branch and Departments such as MDHHS, the State Court Administrator's Office, Office of Children's Ombudsman and other safety measures that have allegedly been put in place.  However, having years of information stored up and not being able to refer to documents I had to describe what is going on and it ended up being considerably longer than planned.  You will want to set aside some time to read and consider what is contained within it because so many things depend on legislators calling MDHHS to the table to get control back and proper oversight of their operations put in place.

I will not sugar coat what is happening and some of what you read will be hard to stomach and even to believe, part of that is because MDHHS has become a master of propaganda and hiding the reality of what is going on.  Most of you will never have had an encounter with CPS; count yourself very lucky and accept that you really don't have an understanding of what it is like to deal with them.  I would have to make an educated guess that even fewer have sat through court proceedings in a CPS case and it is time that you do so.  Ask questions, expect to get very few answers.  When you get answers, ask to see the data itself that merits the response you get; don't be surprised if you are told you cannot see it because, apparently, just numbers are considered violating privacy.

I, personally, expect to see some kind of retaliation in response to all of this.  To what degree is unknown.  Someone may look in the system and see children living with us and make a random call to CPS when there are no children in our home.  Anything could happen and I expect it to come mainly from Arenac County because I have called them out specifically in my notice.  Why?  Because they are not following laws or policies, are changing court documents after they are filed, not properly placing complaints into the system, they have tried to have a family "swatted" based on  so-called evidence they likely obtained from a wiretap or electronic surveillance that they had no reason to be doing  They have placed children in non-licensed foster homes that no one knows how they got there, they predetermine cases with the judge as it would appear, the list goes on.  They will also work overtime to discredit me and anyone else that speaks out about the county but I have my proofs in order.  The problem is that I cannot legally share them with any of you.  We need a law immediately that allows families to share documents with legislators without penalty so that you all can see what is going on.  The only things that can currently be shared are things like newspaper articles and other publicly available information.

The time to protect your most vulnerable constituents is now.  It can only be done through action and that requires listening and investigation by you and your staffs.  Ask yourselves, why has the state been in this lawsuit for more than 10 years with little forward progress and now a $230,000,000 computer program has to be scrapped and a new one implemented?  If the computer system is so bad, how can anything coming from it be trusted?  Why are workers not telling parents who have concerns of abuse and neglect in foster homes to report it to central intake?  Far too many questions and not enough acceptable answers.  A word of caution: I have heard reports of legislators being bribed or threatened in various ways when they attempt to take on MDHHS so be prepared to report any and all of it to the proper authorities.  Record conversations that you have with their staff or anyone that reaches out to you on their behalf.  Do so without disclosing you are doing so because that is one of the few ways you will have to protect yourself.  This is not legal advice, but it is advice given to me by an attorney when we were dealing with CPS.

It must also be made known that by not providing appropriate or adequate services and by lying on petitions while claiming Federal funds, MDHHS could very well be committing massive and widespread fraud for CPATA, ASFA and Social Security funds in addition to Medicaid funds.  In addition, the Health Department is illegally trying to find ways around the FERPA laws when it comes to vaccine waivers.  As such, the state is wide open to Federal lawsuits to recover funds as well as being placed in Federal Receivership if these matters are not immediately addressed and a Federal Investigation is done.

I am happy to answer any questions you have to the best of my ability and if I do not immediately have the answer, I will do my best to get answers for you.  If you all can get legislation passed to allow parents to share case documents with you, I can get you more than enough parents to share their cases with you so that you can see firsthand what is truly going on in Child Welfare.  I am also willing to do what I can to be a part of the solution moving forward, I don't want to be just another person complaining.

Sincerely,

Stephanie Jezowski
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Saturday, January 5, 2019

Stephanie Jezowski Publicly Notifies Michigan Representative Lee Chatfield On Trafficking Tiny Humans

Michigan Representative Lee Chatfield
Stephanie Jezowski Publicly Notifies Michigan Representative Lee Chatfield On Trafficking Tiny Humans and so have I.

Now, there is no excuse, unless everyone is going to ramp up their activities to cloak the Michigan Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare, again, like they always do.

Just ask Governor Gretchen Whitmore  about trafficking tiny humans, or rather ask her about my claims and watch her freak out and say nothing about me.

Absolutely nothing, right, Gretch?

We would not want Gretch to be a whistleblower, now would we?





PHONE: 517-373-2629
EMAIL: LeeChatfield@house.mi.gov



Dear Representative Chatfield,

It is my understanding that it is now your duty to appoint individuals to committes and that the first person you appoint is to be the Chair.  I respectfully request that should you choose to keep Representative Hertel on the Oversight Committee, that you do not make him the chairman.  In light of the issues raised by the Auditor General on the operation of CPS, the fact that his wife works within the Department and thus his household financially benefits from that income, it would seem a gross conflict of interest.  

Also of concern would be the fact that MDHHS is not being very honest with anyone when it comes to problems within the Department; one could call into question if he his head of the Committee how much influence she is having on his participation.  It was of concern to me when, during the Department's response, he mentioned more money for the Department.  They have an almost $1,000,000,000 budget and cannot get things corrected.  As such, more money won't help when the issues don't stem from money.

I also want to inform you that just before the break I reached out to all the (then) committee members outlining what I have seen as problems. I requested to address the committe with more than the standard 3 minute allowance because of the grave and sweeping scope of the information I have gatherd over the last few years and am awaitong a response.  I will resend my request after new committees are established.  

It is, in my assessment, such a problem that should I not hear back from the Committee, I feel obligated to report the findings to Federal Agencies.  Quite frankly, it is my hope that perhaps the Committee will let me present to them or meet with them together and start to tackle the issues so I don't have to do that.  I have tried what I believe to be every other avenue prior to the new administration and no one has done anything.  

The egregious actions of the Department and its workers include using false or "wordsmithed" information on petitions and in reports, telling parents that they have no rights but the Department does, using coercive tactics for alleged investigation (which is another issue that needs to be addressed as proper investigations seem to be rare) purposes, not providing services as required by state AND Federal law and even illegal termination of parental rights that has yet to be remedied.  This is just scratching the surface....there is also reason for concern that the Department may have had children drop from the MiSACWIS system during the switch to it that they may not know were dropped.  Nor have they, to the best of my knowledge, looked to see if any were dropped when they were informed of other srious issues that arose after the switch.  I feel that Representative Hertel would not be ideal for handling this issue as head of the Committee because of the appearance of possible bias.

I was very impressed with Representative Howrylak's question and basic understanding of the gravity of the Audit results.  I suspect the next Audit that is due out early 2019 will be as bad, if not worse and you need someone as head of the Committee who can appropriately handle the mess the state is being handed.  I am also more than willing to be part of the solution.  I WANT to be.  This situation will also require work on the part of thr Judiciary Committee because there are just as many problems with the courts and judges in these cases.  

I cringe to do so, but I must say that what is going on could very easily be seen by Federal level personnel as fraud. If requirements are not being met for funding when they have not been and the state is still collecting said funds, then it is fraud.  I have done my best to get the State ahead of this to no avail as of yet.

I also believe that Governor Whitmer's order telling employees to report health and safety issues to their Department heads won't be enough.  I can explain more in a follow up email, until then I will state that since it likely stems from the Flint water crisis in part, with MDHHS being so dysfunctional and hiding behind claims of "privacy" at ever single attempt to look into problems, there needs to be a Whistleblower Protection law passed.  

Amanda DeRight Hernandez, of former Representative Phil Phelps' office, was working on one and I can get you in contact with her should you like to speak with her about it.  She also has more information on what may be problems with Flint water and environment and it was actually a call she made that sparked the latest round of public meetings on the issues.  She also has considerable knowledge about what is going on within MDHHS that she wasn't able to share with me, and I respect that.  She should be someone that would serve one of the Republican Representatives well with her wealth of knowledge and experience about what is going on within the State, and particularly MDHHS.  However, I digress; I did so because she could be instrumental in balancing what the legislature knows about and can do versus the incoming administration given the opportunity to continue working within the legislative ranks and could give Republicans an advantage in many ways and she has tried to hard to help me.  

I see the tackling of some of these issues head on as a way to give Republicans a leg up before the next elections.  I have to say I am less than impressed with Governor Whitmer's cabinet choices and am not holding my breath on AG Nessel doing much better.  Especially considering whom she wants to replace Todd Flood with for Fling water prosecutions.  Kym Worthy may be persistent, but she doesn't have her priorities in the right places.  And there is no one to date to say "Hey, maybe we should look and see what role Mr. Schuette may have had in this."  This bothers me because MDHHS policy basically says if you have any questions that may have legality concerns then go to the Attorney General.  This leads me to believe that Mr. Lyon and Ms. Wells may have acted under his direction when dealing with Flint.

Speaking of appointments, Governor Whitmer apparently appointed Orlene Hawks to the head of LARA - she could not, and did not, follow the law in her last position and thus needs to be watched closely in her new position.  She and her staff should have, by law, stepped in and stopped an illegal Termination of Parental Rights and did not.  Who knows what she will do while in charge of the flailing LARA in light of the licensing issues.  Basic legal comprehension seems to be a bit of a stretch for her.  I would also put on the table that the Office of Children's Ombudsman needs to be called to the table and the possibility of defunding it be put on the table.  The reason for this is simple....they are to be a check in the system when it has problems and they haven't done that but in a few cases.  What I am hearing from people that have reached out to them is disturbing.

I congratulate you on your new position and I hope that you are able to male the best of it to really turn things around in this state, and I am hoping to work with the Oversight Committee in some capacity to get the light into the corners of MDHHS and to fix the system for the sake of the kids.  It will mean being the parent and getting messy and telling MDHHS what their job is and demanding accountability.  It has to be done so there is not more trouble for the state.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.  I am also able to meet with you with enough advance notice should you prefer to discuss any of this in person.  I will continue to give you information I feel you may find helpful.

Sincerely,

Stephanie Jezowski

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Friday, October 5, 2018

Michigan Oversight Has Second Hearing On Auditor General Report On CPS - Still Sucks

Reporting on the Michigan House Oversight Committee on why Child Protective Services still sucks;

So the Oversight Committee had their second hearing and I have taken away that CPS is claiming more policies have allegedly been implemented and that legislators don't understand how a lack of training for workers is affecting families. They are also offering possible budget increases that won't fix a thing because the root causes are not being addressed. They also cited "rules" and cut off a parent who took the time to be there and who was nervous about sharing their horror story. Last week they looked poised to show they cared, this week they showed this was nothing but a show. I should have expected nothing less but I thought that because they had preliminary evidence that there were major problems that they may actually do something. Time to regroup and get them on track to take this far more seriously. Election season is going to make that tough.

Stephanie Jezowski I did just get clarification that the legislators had their last regular session day and had to go check in to be able to vote by 10:10 so that is likely why they pulled the rules card. However, I take issue with parents in this situation only getting 3 minutes to talk. Rep. Graves did invite the mother to meet with him and continue what she had to share with him sometime soon. I believe there need to be longer, and more extensive hearings on this matter because that is the ONLY way they will see the true scope of the problem.

Stephanie Jezowski Also of note, I think it was Hertel who proffered the funding and staffing. His wife works where? In the MDHHS executive offices if memory serves. I want to go back when the archive is up and make sure but pretty sure that was Hertel. Good little UAW puppet who should be watching this one from the sidelines if you ask me. Maybe if I get in front of the committee I should call that out on the record? Hehehe That would be fun!

BACKGROUND:

Michigan Oversight Hears Auditor General Report On Why CPS Sucks

Learn more: BEVERLY TRAN: Michigan Oversight Hears Auditor General Report On Why CPS Sucks http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2018/09/michigan-oversight-hears-auditor.html#ixzz5T4FE4gRb
Stop Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare 





Thursday, 9:00 AM, Room 326, House Office Building, Lansing, MI


Committee Clerk: Ian Mays


517-373-1260


Graves (C), Howrylak (Maj. VC), Iden, Johnson, Hertel (Min. VC), Chirkun

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