CONYERS: House Democrats to Trump Administration: Florida Nursing Home Tragedy Is a Wake-Up Call to Protect the Fundamental Rights of Residents Against Abuse

WASHINGTON – In the wake of disturbing reports of the neglect of nursing home residents in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, 46 members of Congress called on Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma to maintain current protections for elder Americans against abuse in nursing homes.

In Florida, 12 residents died and more than 100 were hospitalized after a long-term care facility failed to evacuate residents after losing air conditioning in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. In Texas, similar abuse occurred at a facility that refused to evacuate despite severe flooding. The letter is led by Representatives David N. Cicilline (RI-01), John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13), Henry C. “Hank” Johnson, Jr. (GA-04), Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), Linda Sánchez (CA-38), and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01).

They wrote: “The horrific reports of abuse at facilities in Florida and Texas in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Harvey underscore the need for your agency to reconsider upending the legal protections of those who have worked and saved for their entire lives to retire with dignity. This is a time when we should be protecting our nation’s seniors, not rolling back their fundamental right to hold wrongdoers accountable for neglect and abuse.”

Last year under the Obama Administration, CMS finalized a strong rule that prohibited the use of pre-dispute, mandatory (“forced”) arbitration clauses in nursing home admission agreements.

Nursing-home residents stand to lose virtually every cause of action against unscrupulous caregivers unless these current protections against forced arbitration in nursing-home admission contracts are preserved.

As the letter notes, following an extensive notice-and-comment rulemaking process, CMS determined that forced arbitration undermines the ability of health investigators to prevent and remedy abuse in nursing homes.

But under the Trump Administration, CMS has already begun the process to end this protection.

The letter follows a letter from House Democrats—including Representatives Johnson, Cicilline, Conyers, Nadler, and Sanchez—in 2015 that called on CMS to adopt these protections.

The group of House Democrats denounced plans by CMS Administrator Verma to roll back existing protections, writing “Americans in nursing homes deserve better. It is vital that residents and their families are able to enforce their rights and hold nursing home operators accountable for dangerous facility conditions and the inhumane treatment of residents. We strongly urge CMS to protect the health and safety of nursing home residents, particularly in light of recent events, by maintaining the current prohibition of forced arbitration clauses in nursing home admission contracts.”

Congressional Letter To CMS On Nursing Home Protections 10032017 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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Congress Forgot About The Kids: CHIP Was Not Reauthorized

You forgot about the kids!

That is correct.

U.S. Congress forgot about the kids.

The reauthorization for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was not reauthorized.

What does that mean?

#MedicareForAll

Either that or poor kids are going to have to rely upon foster care to access health care services, which will cost a whole bunch more due to the inherent fraudulent billing of Medicaid.

Besides, failure to provide for the necessary needs of the child is considered abuse and neglect.

Which States Are Hit Hardest By Failure To Fund Children’s Health Program

Over the weekend, Congress allowed funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which covers nearly 9 million children in low-income families, to lapse—failing to pass a reauthorization by Saturday’s deadline after spending most of the year attempting to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

The expiration of the program will not affect all states equally. Some are already scrambling to move money around to make sure no child sees their coverage lapse while others have a healthy amount in reserves that will last them well into next year if Congress does not act.

Though the Senate will hold a markup on the reauthorization on Wednesday, its passage remains uncertain. The House has not yet unveiled its version of the bill, and a House Democratic aide told TPM that while negotiations are ongoing, the parties are still fighting over whether to maintain the same level of the federal funding match for CHIP and whether to require cuts to other parts of the federal budget to offset CHIP’s cost.

“We have yet to reach an agreement,” the aide said. “It’s pretty upsetting that the time tradeoff has been an effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act.”

According to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 48 of 50 states, including DC, assumed Congress would reauthorize CHIP when they wrote their 2018 state budgets. That mistaken trust in Congress is already having major consequences.

At least 10 states are on track to run out of money by the end of 2017, and even those that can hold out into 2018 will pay a price.

Joan Alker, the executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and an expert on CHIP, told TPM that the severity depends on how long lawmakers drag their feet.

“If Congress can get it done in the next couple weeks, we could avoid some of the worst consequences,” she said. “It’s hard to disentangle what the consequences will be, but we will certainly start seeing them in November.”

Some states have laws on the books that would force them cap enrollment or end health coverage for the CHIP population altogether if federal funding lapses. Others are anticipating cuts to other CHIP-funded programs, including coverage for low-income pregnant women and children.

Without knowing when Congress will act, Alker says several states are torn about whether to send out notices to families warning that coverage could be cut off or enrollment frozen.

“States only have bad choices here. They don’t want to alarm families but at some point they have to act,” she explained. “Congress has been talking all year about taking away health coverage from families, so if a family gets a notice that says, ‘Your coverage maybe taken away,’ there are many reasons for them to think it’s a strong possibility. It is all very bad news.”

Here are the states that may be hit the hardest:

Utah

Utah’s senior Republican senator Orrin Hatch (pictured above whispering with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell) chairs the committee in charge of funding CHIP. He told reporters last week that the program will be reauthorized “shortly,” but that will not be soon enough for his struggling state. Utah officials have said that they will run out of funding by the end of the year and are making plans to close the program, impacting upwards of 20,000 children.

Minnesota

The commissioner of Minnesota’s Department of Human Services, Emily Piper, told her congressional delegation in September that without renewed federal funding, she will have to take “extraordinary measures” to prevent people from being kicked off of CHIP.

“The pregnant women covered by CHIP would be at risk of losing coverage altogether,” she wrote. “However, we are exploring ways to continue coverage temporarily by carrying over FY 2017 CHIP funds so that their prenatal and postpartum care continues uninterrupted. This action, however, comes with a significant financial penalty.”

That penalty, she estimates, will be a $10 million hit to the state’s general fund.

Arizona

Arizona’s CHIP funding, which provides coverage for more than 22,000 children, will run out by the end of the year if Congress does not pass a bill. Because the state passed a bill in 2016 that would force its CHIP program to halt new enrollment if the federal government eliminates funding, the state is already warning health insurers and families that they may implement an enrollment freeze.

The last time this happened, during the Great Recession in 2009, the rate of uninsured children in Arizona climbed sharply.

Texas

Texas, which temporarily waived the fees families have to pay for CHIP in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, could burn through its budget sooner than projected, threatening health insurance for 390,000 children.

West Virginia

State law requires West Virginia to shut down its CHIP program if federal funding levels drop by a certain amount. They are currently scrambling to get a legal interpretation of whether that means this week or when the state exhausts its reserve funding in early 2018.

The state expects that about one-third of children enrolled in CHIP would become uninsured with closure of the program, unable to enroll either in a parent’s employee insurance plan or on the individual market.

Nevada

Should Congress’ inaction continue, Nevada is preparing to freeze enrollment on Nov. 1 and end coverage altogether on Nov. 30 for about 27,000 children.

“We’d have to look at our options for limiting the services that are available,” Nevada’s deputy administrator for Medicaid Cody Phinney told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

“If Congress does not quickly reauthorize CHIP, states like Nevada will need to either send notices of termination to program beneficiaries or develop alternative funding,” Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) warned in a statement.

The state legislature has not yet called a special session to plan for the potential shortfall.

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Child Welfare Is The Extremely Profitable Industry Of Human Trafficking

For those who are just now popping in, we have a routine when it comes to children being legally kidnapped by Child Protective Services, so let's begin with the basics.

Repeat after me....

"You cannot audit God".

This statement is to mean that any 501c3, tax exempt, privatized, not-for-profit organization, which includes religious or anything dealing with children, are excluded and exempted from any form of external scrutiny, through self-reporting, for the purposes of maximizing revenue.

TRANSLATION:  Child welfare is the extremely profitable industry of human trafficking.

The following video is from 2013, but I post it for the purposes of demonstrating that the State of California, the rest of the nation, refuses to address what "lying" in a child welfare proceeding means.

It means fraudulent billing through the filing of false claims.

System of lies from Gina Silva on Vimeo.

CPS has the Right To Lie, even though the 9th Circuit Court said it did not, but, then again, who is going to enforce this basic concept that a lie is nothing less than fraudulent manipulation of the public record in order to maximize revenues of these privatized, tax exempt child placing organizations?

U.S. Administration on Children, Youth and Families Report To Congress On Immunity From Prosecution For Pro... by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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Michigan Foster Care Rates And Age Out Lies

Effective October 2012, Michigan has published its foster care rates.  This is how much it pays a day for the keep of a child under the auspices of the state.  It's about $20 bucks.

Upon examination there seems to be a slight issue with the payment plan.

See, there is this new program, well, it has been around for a minute and it is called Supervised Independent Living (SIL).  SIL is a unique program being used for Youth In Transition (YIT) and is not required to be licensed as a child welfare program due to its federal funding source. For a more readily understanding it can be referred to as a temporary answer to the issue of what to do with foster care youth who were either never adopted and are aging out the system.

In Michigan, and just about every other state, there are no data on what happens to youth who age out of foster care.  Wayne State University did a study a while back which produce some not too surprising results.  In a nutshell about 70% of foster youth who age out the system find themselves institutionalized again within the first three years.  

Institutionalized means homeless, welfare recipients, pregnant, incarceration, etc.  This is not a very good track record for the state or its foster care system.  Unfortunately the situation is even worse.

Right around that magical era of the end of Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reauthoriation Act (PRWORA) there was an anamolous event: a signifiant spike, an upward trend in the number of Child Protective Services cases.  Oddly enough there was a parallel trend in the federal funding of foster care while there was a converse trend in social assistance program funding.

Simply put, the States began to remove large amounts of children from certain zip codes with high concentrations of poverty.  Neighborhoods became baron to the sound of children playing in the street for fear of removal.  Grand Rapids is a good example.

I shall assume, from the apparent lack of obviation, that Michigan did not think very far on what would happen with the kids who end up never getting adopted out or going back home.  One reason why many of these kids were never placed out was because of what happened to them in the foster care system.  Let's briefly examine:

Mental health is poorly addressed.  Education in foster care virtually does not exist.  Then, foster youth have the tales of the other side to let them know they face a life of homelessness, prostitution, drugs once they age out.  Michigan had to do something so it came up with SIL.

Starting around the age of 16, Michigan will pay the absolute minimum to provide a youth a bed and a meal.  In return, the provider, according to the brochures, supervises.  What "supervises" means is a mystery.  What is expected is for the direct service provider to do the work of the agency and state workers.

SIL is not foster care and does not require a foster care license yet it applies foster care polices to its program.  Better yet, Michigan policy denotes that it cannot use foster care funding to fund SIL.  What is happening is that Michigan is jacking up a good thing because the state refuses to clean house of its moronic administrators, including the cover ups of Maura Corrigan.

I will be reporting more on the SIL program as I investigate its operations in Michigan.  Until then, ask yourself this question:  Would you take in a wild teenager, who no one wanted to adopt, who has a mental health record you know the workers will never share with you and who has a poor educational track record which is incomplete and fraudulently generated to make it look like the youth in on track for high school graduation, if you are lucky enough to be told about it, who has seen and experienced more trauma while in foster care than most will in a lifetime, who is probably using street drugs and drinking with possible violent and abnormal sexual tendencies, with a baby in another placement, while you, the direct service provider, never being allowed to leave your own home because the state is holding you under foster care standards without even telling you?  

Michigan SIL program pays a direct service provider less than $0.88 an hour to be locked in their home 24 hours a day to "supervise" a ward of the state under the stringent polices of an entirely different program called foster care.

It very clearly states that Title IV-E funds are not to be used for Independent Living or Supervised Living yet Michigan does it anyway.  That's right, Michigan uses foster care policy in SIL programs because the state is still trying to cover up how it neglected the kids in its own care.

So the next time you see a cute advertisement for being a foster parent for an older child, you just remember that it is a lie and it is called SIL.

And that ends another chapter of child welfare fraud in Michigan.

Michigan Foster Care Rates 10-12-2012
I will be submitting my own SIL program and policy to the state because Michigan will not get rid of its idiot administrators who continue to screw these kids over.

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Medicaid Fraud Control Units Performance Updates and Pitfalls

Previously, I submitted public comment on the performance standards for State Medicaid Fraud Control Units which specifically identified the inherent issues of conflict of interest within referral programs.

What should be extracted as a sample specimen for further observation is this part of the published rule:

A MFCU may also investigate and prosecute abuse and neglect in ‘‘board and care’’ facilities, such as assisted living facilities, even if such facilities do not receive Medicaid payments.

 This is federal jargon for foster care but that is not what is being examined; it's the referrals.

MFCU can not investigate fraud, waste and abuse in child welfare if a state does create referral mechanisms.  In Michigan there is an obscure public act which is ignored as were my attempts to force the state to enforce its own law.

The OIG is to assess the performance of these Units.  We can only wait for me to introduce legislation to create a culture of accountability.  Of course, I must be elected, first.  This is why Michigan is set to loose hundreds of millions more in Medicaid funding for lack of compliance, its pitfall.  A lack of enforcement runs the risk of the state loosing out, again, on educational funding opportunities like the Race to the Top as criteria for eligibility is all interconnected with how we treat our children of the state,

So far, Michigan does not have a very good record, reflected in its high rates of infant mortality and child poverty.

We will just have to wait and watch.
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Beverly Tran on Proposed Revision of Performance Standards for State Medicaid Fraud Control Units, December 5, 2011

Never before has anyone ever spoken of Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare with such finesse and no one else ever will because I have all intentions of running this game.

What is a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit?  According to the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units, it states:

Medicaid provider fraud costs American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually and hinders the very integrity of the Medicaid program. State Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs) have long been in the forefront of health care fraud enforcement. A Medicaid Fraud Control Unit is a single identifiable entity of state government, annually certified by the Secretary of the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services, that conducts a statewide program for the investigation and prosecution of health care providers that defraud the Medicaid program. In addition, a MFCU reviews complaints of abuse or neglect of nursing home residents. A Unit may review complaints of the misappropriation of patients’ private funds in these facilities. The Unit is also charged with investigating fraud in the administration of the program and for providing for the collection or referral for collection to the single state agency and overpayments it identifies in carrying on its activities. 

The Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 extended the jurisdiction of the Units to allow them, with the approval of the Inspector General of the relevant federal agency, to investigate fraud in any federally funded health care program, such as Medicare. This authority is limited to those cases that are primarily related to Medicaid. This law allows the MFCUs the option to investigate complaints of abuse or neglect of those residing in board and care facilities, regardless of the source of payment.

As one can easily see, the population of child Medicaid is omitted.  This is why groups such as Children's Rights has to file lawsuits to get States to protect the children in the foster care system.

Furthermore, this is the reason why there are no statistical reports of murder, rape, torture and drugging children in foster care.  Child Welfare Services in foster care are funded through Targeted Case Management,  a.k.a. Medicaid; therefore, MFCU is suppose to investigate abuse and neglect in foster care but does not.  The typical state reaction to reports of abuse and torture in foster care is to move the child to a new placement.  Some states have special "death squads" to secretly investigate and destroy evidence of a child murder in foster care.  These reports are never made public, it is rare that anyone is prosecuted, and not one penny of Medicaid is recovered.

By not investigating abuse and neglect in foster care, a direct correlation is constructed to another neglect3ed area of regulation in Child Welfare, the contracts and services.  Here the amounts of Medicaid fraud will nationally rise into the billions.

These MFCU were created the same time of CAPTA.

Without further adieu, experience the publishing of why Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare is the nation's dirty little secret.

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Child Abuse And Neglect Judge Abused And Neglected Own Child

An inside look into why many judges have no remorse when it comes to terminating parental rights.

This man should have his law license permanently revoked for life, removed from the bench and banned from holding public office ever again.

Actually a more befitting punishment would be to have his children removed by CPS for investigation and placed in foster care...or basically make him go through what he put other parents through when he was on the bench.

That is hell I wish upon no one, not even him.

Video of Texas Judge 'Punishing' Daughter With Leather Belt Goes Viral, Sparks Allegations of Child Abuse


A video that claims to show a Texas judge beating his daughter with what looks like a leather belt for downloading games off the Internet has gone viral, in an apparent effort by the victim to ruin her abusive father's chances for re-election
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Hillary Adams, daughter of Texas judge William Adams, says she feels some regret about uploading a video of her father belting her but that she hopes it forces him to get help. Photograph: Chris Sherman/AP

The daughter of a Texas judge, who is seen suffering a savage beating in an internet video viewed more than 2m times, has said her father "needs help".

Hillary Adams, who uploaded the video showing the 2004 beating, went on television in the US to explain why she had done it, and said it happened often when she was young.

Police have launched an investigation into whether her father, Aransas county court judge William Adams, committed an offence.

Hillary Adams, now 23, said she has received an outpouring of support and encouragement since posting the video last week. But her feelings were tempered by the sadness her father lashed her 17 times with a belt after threatening to beat her "into submission."

Speaking to the Associated Press outside her mother's home in the Gulf coast town of Portland, near Corpus Christi, she said: "I'm experiencing some regret because I just pulled the covers off my own father's misbehaviour after so many people thought he was such a good person … But so many people are also telling me I did the right thing."

"He's supposed to be a judge who exercises fit judgment," she said.

In an interview with NBC's Today Show on Thursday, she said the attack was not a one-off. "It did happen regularly for a period of time," she said.

In the same interview, her mother, Hallie Adams, blamed her ex-husband's bouts of violence on his "addiction," calling it a "family secret." Their 22-year marriage ended in 2007.

Texas judge William Adams. Photograph: AP

The judge did not return a reporter's calls seeking comment early on Thursday.

Police in Rockport, where the 51-year-old judge lives, opened an investigation on Wednesday after receiving calls from several concerned citizens, Police chief Tim Jayroe said.

Aransas county sheriff Bill Mills said William Adams has been receiving threatening phone calls and faxes at the courthouse since the video went online.

No one answered the door on Wednesday at the judge's home. A neighbour said she saw Adams and his girlfriend packing luggage, a briefcase and rifles into their truck.

Corpus Christi television station KZTV caught up with the judge while he was getting into his vehicle on Wednesday, and he confirmed it was him in the video. But he said it "looks worse than it is" and that he doesn't expect to be disciplined.

"In my mind, I haven't done anything wrong other than discipline my child after she was caught stealing," Adams said. "And I did lose my temper, but I've since apologised."

When told of her father's comments, Hillary Adams said: "It's a shining perfect example of his personality and he believes he can do no wrong … He will cover up rather than admit to what he did and try to come clean."

She stressed that she did not post the video as revenge and does not want her father punished. Rather, she did it because she thinks it will force him to seek help, and because he has been harassing her and she thought posting the clip would make that stop.

"We need to reach out to victims and the abusers themselves to get people to realise what it actually is," she said.

Hillary said she secretly videotaped the beating in her bedroom because she "knew something was about to happen." She says her parents were angry at her for using her computer to download pirated content over the internet.

In the clip's opening seconds, William Adams is heard telling Hillary's mother, "Go get the belt. The big one. I'm going to spank her now." With belt in hand, he turns off the light and tries forcing his daughter to bend over the bed to be beaten, but she refuses.

"Lay down or I'll spank you in your fucking face," Adams screams while he lashes her with sweeping blows across the legs, ignoring her wails and pleas for him to stop.

A screen grab of a YouTube video shows judge William Adams wielding a belt before beating his daughter

Texas judge 'needs help', says beaten daughter

Police are investigating Texas judge William Adams after video shows him savagely beating 16-year-old daughter

A few minutes into the video, which on Thursday morning had been viewed more than 2m times, Hillary's mother barks at her to "turn over like a 16-year-old and take it! Like a grown woman!" For about a minute, the ordeal appears to have ended after both parents leave the room and shut the door. But the judge then storms back into the room and the beating resumes.

Hallie Adams said she was "completely brainwashed and controlled" by her ex-husband.

"I did every single thing that he did," she told NBC. Hillary Adams said she is not angry at her mother.

Child advocates roundly condemned the beating as abuse. But investigators may decide that the judge's actions, while shocking, weren't criminal.

David Finkelhor, a University of New Hampshire sociology professor who heads the school's Crimes Against Children Research Center, said the lines between what is deemed child abuse and what is considered an acceptable level of discipline differ across the country and among various social groups, though the use of objects such as belts and sticks is usually seen as beyond any normal physical punishment.

Patrick Crimmins, a spokesman for the state Department of Family and Protective Services, said in an email that the agency is aware of the video and "will take the appropriate steps in this matter." He said the agency would have no further comment.

Michigan Is Clearing Out Its Kiddy Inventory

Maura Corrigan is clearing out the overstock of Bill Johnson, Superintendent of Michigan Children's Institute's kids.

Anyone can adopt, unless you are a grandparent, aunt, uncle, sister, brother, cousin, someone who raised the child, or have direct information on the Medicaid fraud, false claims, or due process violations in the Termination of Parental Rights case, are poor and/or have a blemish on your record.

Other than that, the sooner these kids get adopted out, the quicker the state can shred the case files covering up the fraud, waste, abuse, civil rights and due process violations, torture, unnecessary and overmedication of Bill Johnson's foster kids and come into compliance of the federal settlement agreement!

Bill Johnson, Michigan's legal daddy to these 3,500 plus foster kids, is the one with the power to approve who may and may not adopt.

Don't like it?  Prove his decision was whimsical.

Michigan Covering Up Medicaid Fraud, Again

What better way to prepare for the kick off of Child Abuse Propaganda Month than with a package of bills to cover up Medicaid fraud in child welfare, again!

WEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! Pretty Pinwheels!

Covering up Medicaid Fraud

Bills would streamline adoption process for foster care children

LANSING, Mich. – Michigan Supreme Court Justice Mary Beth Kelly and Michigan Department of Human Services Director Maura D. Corrigan have urged legislators to approve bills before both chambers that will streamline the adoption process for children in foster care. The passage of these bills could pave the way for expedited placement in qualified, permanent homes for more than 1,100 children.
Currently, the only person authorized to approve adoptions for children in foster care is the Michigan Children’s Institute (MCI) superintendent. Since April 2010, the MCI superintendent has received 1,100 such cases for approval.


Under the bills, the MCI superintendent, the legal guardian for children committed to MCI when parental rights have been terminated, may authorize a designee to provide written consent to the adoption, marriage, guardianship or emancipation of MCI wards. The designee would be allowed to authorize adoption requests where the child is already living in the recommended adoption home and a review by a caseworker and supervisor has determined there are no concerns about the placement.


Kelly said her experience as a family court judge convinced her that the bills are needed.


“No matter how good a job the MCI superintendent does, he or she is only one person, and it is simply unrealistic to expect one person to perform in-depth reviews of hundreds of these cases each year,” Kelly told legislators.


While finding a permanent, loving home for children in foster care is a key mission for DHS, Corrigan was clear that the expedited process will not sacrifice due diligence in the examination of potential adoptive families. The department will be systematic, careful and considerate when determining who will be named as a designee, Corrigan told members of the Senate Families, Seniors and Human Services committee.


“The best place for a child is in a stable, permanent home. That is our goal for each of the 4,150 children in foster care available for adoption. Joining a family should not be delayed because only one person in the entire state can authorize a child’s adoption or guardianship,” Corrigan said.
Among the bills’ supporters is the Michigan Probate Judges Association. In a March 15 letter to Sen. Judith Emmons, Judge Dorene Allen, chief judge of the Midland County Probate Court and chair of the MPJA’s Juvenile and Adoption Issues Committee, wrote that the legislation “will facilitate the permanency of children in the abuse and neglect system, certainly a goal we can all agree upon.”

This is my response: 


It is amazing how Michigan allows the Supreme Court to make law from the bench to usurp, or rather, "transfer" judicial powers of the decision-making process to "designees" who are neither appointed or elected, to represent the State.


I have aggressively dissented with finding of fact and conclusion of law, only to be silently dismissed when addressing issues of false claims and violations of due process contained within this package of bills.

The decisions of the Superintendent of Michigan Children's Institute, Bill Johnson, are never question as to being legitimate, but rather if the decisions are whimsical within the doctrine of arbitrary and capricious.


How is it one person, being the Michigan Children's Superintendent, Bill Johonson, can wield so much power? It is only within the later part of Director Ahmed's DHS administration and the current DHS administration of Director Maura Corrigan that letters of appointment of the Superintendent have been generated. Prior to this, nothing authorizing a civil servant to represent the State of Michigan in Court decision-making process existed.


How can the Michigan Children's Superintendent, Bill Johnson, go without public scrutiny when the State's foster care system is under federal court jurisdiction in dealing with the abuse and neglect of children who under the legal guardianship of this one, omnipotent man, Bill Johnson?


Why is is that not one case of Medicaid fraud in child welfare under the aegis of the Michigan Children's Superintendent, has been referred to the Office of Attorney General Medicaid Fraud Control Unit for prosecution and recovery?


These bills not only streamline the adoption process; these bills cover up the pervasiveness of Medicaid fraud in Michigan's child welfare system, because, once a child is adopted, the service files verifying false claims are sealed from external examination.


The time has come to end Medicaid fraud in child welfare and so have I.

Beverly Tran
An Original Source

Conyers To Hear Adam Walsh Central Registry Reauthorization

On February 15, 2011, in the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, hearing will be held to address the Reauthorization of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act in the 112th Congress, led by the second ranking member, John Conyers, Jr.


The timing is impeccable to address the issue of lack of due process in the placement and clearance of individual names from the Central Registry.


NEW YORK, NY, February 14, 2011 /EIN Presswire/ -- An important class action settlement was announced today that will help thousands of New Yorkers to return to work quicker. The settlement was reached with the Office of Children and Family Services ("OCFS") which operates the New York Statewide Abuse and Maltreatment Register. Before a person can work with children, the state law requires that employers must first obtain a clearance from the Register. Without a clearance, people can not work. The Register maintains a list of people who have been accused of maltreatment of children. Those who have been listed are entitled to a hearing to clear their names. However, sometimes hearings take more than a year to complete. While waiting for the hearings, people can not get jobs. When the hearings are finally held, up to 50 - 75% of the people are exonerated. 

Website: www.registryclassaction.com

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New York Examination In Child Welfare Murder

It is always a sign that there is a light at the end of the tunnel when trying to end child welfare fraud.  It is just a shame that it takes the murder of a child to expose what really goes on behind the iron curtain.

Anderson School is still in operation.

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Hypocrisy Rampant in New York State

Hypocrisy Rampant in New York State

iReport —


By Rhonda Mangus

Our story is given mention in this Legally Kidnapped: Baby LKReport For Halloween 2010.

It should be noted well that my son, Michael, was never truant or unlawfully detained from school. Michael was under the care of, not one but two, medical professionals who never released their demand for home-instruction.

In New York State it is a Class A Misdemeanor to file a false report with CPS. Principal James V. Fisher and City of North Tonawanda School District Child Associate Rosemary Fox were well-aware of the circumstances surrounding Michael's absence from school, yet they made the false reports to CPS. In effect, they circulated information known to be false and misused a state agency.

In light of all of the facts, several state agencies, including NYS OCFS, refused to let me file charges against North Tonawanda High School Principal James V. Fisher for filing a false report. In fact, NYS OCFS found 'no wrong-doing' by Principal Fisher. Given this, I did not attempt to bring any charges against Rosemary Fox. Ms. Fox filed the second false report the following school year (2006-2007).

Last month NYS OCFS released a 'Policy Brief' prepared by the Vera Institute of Justice.

"What their brief does not begin to explore is false filings of educational neglect charges, and why there are no investigations into this aspect. "

To that end, Chief Judge Honorable Jonathan Lippman, who denied my Motion for Permission for Leave to Appeal to the Court of Appeals at a session of the Court, held at Court of Appeals Hall in the City of Albany on the second day of September, 2010, has recently received "kudos" for his crackdown on  foreclosure practices. It's unfortunate that Judge Lippman does not follow the same procedures in his own Court.

The hypocrisy:  "We can't have the process being a fraud," New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman said in announcing the new procedure. "It has to be real and based on credible information."