Cocktails & Popcorn: Bob Carmack, Kwame Kilpatrick, Mark Lambert, Nancy Edmunds & The Brady Rule - How To Cover Up Stealin' In The Courts

The Detroit case with Carmack is using the same strategy as the Lambert Case of going after the government for withholding exculpatory evidence.

That is the Brady Rule.

If applied properly, it could strip attorney client privileges with all those immunities.

That would mean City of Detroit Corporate Council was covering up stuff.

Where is Butch Hollowell?

Almost in Detroit.

Brady RuleThe Brady Rule, named after Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), requires prosecutors to disclose materially exculpatory evidence in the government's possession to the defense. A "Brady material" or evidence the prosecutor is required to disclose under this rule includes any evidence favorable to the accused--evidence that goes towards negating a defendant's guilt, that would reduce a defendant's potential sentence, or evidence going to the credibility of a witness.
If the prosecution does not disclose material exculpatory evidence under this rule, and prejudice has ensued, the evidence will be suppressed. The evidence will be suppressed regardless of whether the prosecutor knew the evidence was in his or her possession, or whether or not the prosecutor intentionally or inadvertently withheld the evidence from the defense.
Further, in cases subsequent to Brady, the Supreme Court has eliminated the requirement for a defendant to have requested a favorable information, stating that the Prosecution has a constitutional duty to disclose, that is triggered by the potential impact of favorable but undisclosed evidence See Kyles v. Whitley 514 U.S. 419, 434 (1955); United States. v. Bagley, 473 U.S. 667 (1985).
The defendant bears the burden to prove that the undisclosed evidence was both material and favorable.  In other words, the defendant must prove that there is a “reasonable probability” that the outcome of the trial would have been different, had the evidence been disclosed by the prosecutor. See Kyles, 514 U.S. at 433 (1955).  Bagles and Kyles Court further defined the “materiality” standard, outlining the four aspects of materiality.  First, the “reasonable probability” of a different result is not a question of whether the defendant would more likely than not have received a different verdict with the evidence, but whether the government’s evidentiary suppression undermines the confidence in the outcome of the trial.  The second aspect is that it is not a sufficiency of evidence test, and the defendant only has to show that the favorable evidence could reasonably be taken to put the whole case in such a different light as to undermine the confidence in the verdict.  Third aspect is that there is no need for a harmless error review, because a Brady violation, by definition, could not be treated as a harmless error.  Fourth and final aspect of materiality the Kyles Court stressed was that the suppressed evidence must be considered collective, not item by item, looking at the cumulative effect to determine whether a reasonable probability is reached.  See Kyles, 514 U.S. at 433-438. 

Waiting on the Detroit Land Bank Authority to come up in the orders.

2 witnesses maintain Carmack didn't pay for land he sold

A real estate attorney and a former staffer for the city of Detroit maintained Tuesday that Robert Carmack did not pay for the southwest side property he sold for $1 million to an Illinois developer.

Bruce Goldman, an attorney for the city who oversees real estate transactions, and a former city employee who worked on real estate transactions were called back to court to face questions from Carmack's defense attorneys about emails they wrote in 2017 concerning the disputed Melville Street parcel.

Chidi Nyeche, a former staffer for the city of Detroit's planning and development, acknowledged writing in a  2017 email to Goldman that Carmack had closed on the property.

But Nyeche testified Tuesday in 36th District Court he later retracted the email, saying he made the comments in error because he found that the sale was rescinded and that $70,000 was refunded to Carmack.

 Carmack's co-counsel Lillian Diallo also asked Nyeche about a later email in which Goldman said the sale of the Melville property was approved by Detroit City Council and that the $70,000 refund was for another property and not the site at 7751 Melville.

Nyeche said "there was no check in my file" for the Melville property from Carmack but did not dispute a closing settlement.

Goldman testified it would have been "impossible" for Carmack to have closed on the Melville property because he had not paid for it.

"There was no closing," Goldman said. He said for real estate to be conveyed to a new owner, "funds would be exchanged and the deal would be closed."

Judge Cylenthia Miller asked Goldman why there was no notation of the words "copy" or "draft" on the deed that Carmack's attorneys say he has on the property, noting that the city maintains the document is not official.

"This is a copy," Goldman replied.

Carmack, 59, of Woodhaven is charged with four felonies in connection with his 2016 sale of the 10-acre property in southwest Detroit. Authorities contend he never completed a $250,000 purchase of the site but used draft documents from 2007 to fraudulently represent that he owned the land before selling it.

Both sides rested Tuesday and closing arguments are expected when the preliminary hearing continues Friday.

But what if a Judge violated the Brady Doctrine like Nancy Edmunds did by letting Gasper Fiore off and not allowing him to testify, as a witness with exculpatory evidence, considering that he was just sentenced for just about the same charges she dropped?

hmmmmm........

U.S. v. Kwame Kilpatrick OP... by on Scribd

Here is another interesting opinion on a case dealing with Voting Rights of Members in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Nancy Edmunds said the Chairman of the U.S. House of Judiciary, John Conyers, and 10 others had failed to state a claim on a law, The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, being signed by POTUS without having concurrent language of both chambers.

Plaintiffs claim that the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (“the Act” or “the Deficit Reduction Act”), Pub. L. No. 109-171, § 10001, 120 Stat. 4, § 183, is invalid and did not comply with Article I, Section 7 of the United States Constitution because it did not pass the House in the form in which it was passed by the Senate, signed by the President, and enrolled as a Public Law.

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That is a just a blatant violation of the Brady Doctrine because the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 was about the expansion of Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare, (oops, I mean child welfare services because it would be a violation of due process to accuse someone of participating in the implementation of a Medicaid fraud scheme in foster care and adoption services, without giving them the ones I accuse the opportunity to tell their side of their stealin' story) and I had filed a False Claims Act, along with many other legal actions, well documented on my blog and databases, where this was just another trafficking of tiny humans appropriation operation.

On a side note, my False Claims Act was tossed on a pile of to-do stuff that I had to go off on the court to at least send me an order of dismissal for not having an attorney.

I was planning on taking that one all the way to SCOTUS, but, you know, there was a bit of economic and financial logistic situations that prevented me from castigating the court, like maintaining my socioeconomic status of being one of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth).

As a matter of fact......it seems Nancy Edmunds should have known about the fraud because she has been sitting on the Children's Rights case, Dwayne B. v. Granholm, where Michigan has been under federal oversight of its Child Welfare System, where Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare, not just continues to flourish, but is being re-engineered, preparing for that delicious Faith Based Funding to sell more wares, or rather the children of "The Poors" into a life of eternal servitude, for they are being put under the legal auspices of foreign corporate parents.

No wonder nothing has been done during the 10 years of federal monitoring of this case.

I wonder if a judge can be stripped of the same immunities as the attorney client privilege.

I think that process would be called expulsion, or impeachment, or war crimes, depending on how you prosecute it.

They were all stealin' the children, the land and the votes.

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Nancy Edmunds was mean to my Sweetie and now I know why.

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JooYeun Chang Saves The Day For Michigan SACWIS, Then Gets A Promotion To Launch The Re-engineering Of Trafficking Tiny Humans Databases

SACWIS is the State Automative Child Welfare Information System.

I like to call it an asset forfeiture database.

So, for almost 15 years, Nancy Edmunds has just allowed Michigan to continuously dump millions into privately contracted failures, UNISYS, having to dump more money to improve the system to improve performance.

When there is a need to improve performance, that means there are errors in the system.

Errors in a child welfare system are called kidnapping, human trafficking, drugging, rape, torture, beating, attempted and successful suicide.

Errors in a child welfare system are also called Medicaid fraud, but whatever you do, do not tell Nancy that.

Once again, Michigan has successfully slithered through the court, again, to continue another year of trying to figure out how to do more stealin' of the children, the land and the votes because JooYeun Chang has saved the day and is now running Michigan's Children's Services Agency!

She is clueless and so is Vivek.

She sounds like she just graduated, full of passion and propaganda.

FYI: Absolutely nothing she identified as her goals for the Children's Bureau ever happened, but it surely did sound pretty.

At least she mentioned the overuse of psychotropics, but made no mention about using foster children as lab rats.

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Michigan to scrap child-welfare computer system

Detroit — Michigan’s child-welfare agency will phase out a troubled computer system that has cost the state $231 million over the past five years, officials told a federal judge Thursday.

State child welfare officials announced the decision while briefing U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds on how the state is caring for children who were removed from homes due to abuse and neglect.

Edmunds heard from attorneys and the state welfare officials on improvements and progressas part of a court-oversight update in connection with a lawsuit brought by the New York-based Children's Rights child welfare rights organization 13 years ago.

Computers that caseworkers use to document cases and log intake of children as were highlighted as a major concern at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The computer system, which went online in 2014, has cost the state $231 million,

JooYeun Chang, the executive director of the state Children's Services Agency, told the judge the old computer system will be phased out and will be replaced by a newer one.

"We're going to build a new system one area at a time so that they make sure the new system works," Chang told Edmunds.

The judge told Chang: "I hope that can be accomplished quickly. This has been a hindrance (to the state's child welfare system)."

Chang told reporters following the hearing she expects a new system will be in place within five years.

Robert Gordon, director for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, said he will seek funding for the new system from the Michigan Legislature. He said half of the cost for the computer system is paid for by the federal government.

"We need to perform better as a department in the way we manage technology," Gordon said after the hearing. "We're focused on improving our performance."

Simple glitches such as having to input data multiple times are among the problems plaguing the system, said Gordon.

Replacing the troubled computer system is among the reforms MDHHS is pursuing to resolve the lawsuit, which was filed in August 2006 by Children's Rights to address concerns about the state's foster care system.

The lawsuit alleges that children's constitutional rights were being violated because the state failed to move them quickly into safe, stable permanent homes, provide them with medical services, and prepare youths who age out of foster care.

in addition, the state's child welfare system was poorly managed, underfunded and lacked sufficient staff, which further put children at risk of harm, according to the suit.

Chang told Edmunds the children's welfare agency is making changes that include helping relatives of children in the foster care system get licensed and become providers for the youths.

Other changes in the works: eliminating the state’s compliance reviews of cases up to two years old, focusing efforts to prevent child maltreatment on the activities most directly related to stopping it, and getting youth into effective programs, such as the Young Adult Voluntary Foster Care program.

Samantha Bartosz, the deputy director of litigation strategy for Children's Rights, told the judge she feels the group and the state have reached a "sound resolution" in moving forward on the issues that prompted the lawsuit.

"The modified approach will deliver sounds results for children," Bartosz said.

After the proceedings, she said the reforms reflected a more than decade-long struggle to have the system regulated to better serve children and protect them.

"There are safety regulations in the agreement now," Bartosz said. "They are committed to staying on top of important safety measures."

JooYeun Chang, Child Welfare Leader for Obama Administration, Now Heading Up Michigan’s System

JooYeun Chang

JooYeun Chang, a veteran of child welfare policy and practice, is now the senior deputy director in charge of the Children’s Services Agency at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Chang joined the agency, which is led by Robert Gordon, in late May.

“With JooYeun’s deep knowledge of what works, her diverse experiences, and her passionate commitment, we can help many more children achieve safety, gain permanency, and ultimately realize their potential,” Gordon said, in a statement announcing her hiring.

Chang got her start in child welfare policy as a staff attorney at the Children’s Defense Fund, a Washington, D.C.-based organization founded in the 1970s by Marian Wright Edelman. Chang was then brought on by the Seattle-based grant maker Casey Family Programs, which is focused on reducing the number of youth in America who come into foster care, as its senior director of public policy.

In 2013, Chang left Casey to join the Obama administration as its associate commission for the Children’s Bureau, the agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that administers most federal funds for child welfare. The bureau oversees Title IV-E, the central entitlement program for federal funds to support foster care payments and adoption subsidies, as well as federal spending on family preservation and independent living programs.

Chang left in the final year of the administration, and resumed her role with Casey Family Programs.

“JooYeun Chang is an incredibly talented and committed leader and change agent. I have had the opportunity to work with her in a variety of ways since 2007, and over those 12 years, her commitment to the well-being of all children and families has remained her focus and has never wavered,” said Casey CEO William Bell, in the statement announcing Chang’s new position. “Michigan will benefit greatly from her leadership.”

In Michigan, Chang inherits a state that has been under a court-monitored settlement agreement since 2008, the result of a class-action lawsuit filed against it by Children’s Rights. Last September, an audit of the agency she now leads found it had often failed to complete background checks or conduct proper interviews in the course of investigating maltreatment claims.

Unlike many of its Midwest brethren, Michigan has not seen its foster care totals skyrocket in recent years as the opioid crisis fueled a spike in removals. In fact, according to federal data, Michigan’s foster care total declined from 14,522 to 11,918 between 2012 and 2017.

JooYeun Chang, testifying at a 2014 Senate hearing about child trafficking and re-homing. Photo: Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
The state has indicated its intention to delay implementation on a federal law aimed at keeping more youth out of foster care. The Family First Prevention Services Act, signed into law in February of 2018, enables states to use the Title IV-E entitlement for certain substance abuse, mental health and parenting services to avoid the removal of children from their parents. The law also puts limits on the use of IV-E funds for the placement of youth in group homes and other congregate care environments.

States have the option of delaying implementation of the law until 2021. As of June, 27 states including Michigan had formally notified the Children’s Bureau of an intention to delay.

Casey Family Programs was a key player in fomenting support for the law, and continues to support efforts to help states move toward implementation of it. Chang was front and center in those efforts, so it will be interesting to see if Michigan now moves more quickly on Family First.

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It Takes A Child To Educate A Federal Judge - Will Nancy Edmunds Finally Figure Out After 10 Years That Michigan's Child Welfare System Sucks?

Nancy Edmunds, the judge presiding over the decade lingering Children's Rights case, Dwayne B. v. Granholm, has yet to figure out that nothing has changed.

Every time Kevin Ryan submits another court monitored report on the progress of Michigan's child welfare system, he only reports on microcosmic duct taped repairs to the conditions of its operations, or, rather, in more realistic terms not reported to the court, the drugging, rapes, beatings, torture, suicides, unsuccessful or successful, oh, and that pesky issue of child trafficking.

Now, mind you, Derrick is only a teen.

He is not a lawyer.

He is not a judge.

He is not an accountant.

What he is, is a young man with a keen eye and a quick response for a brave solution, skills necessary to preside over the Michigan federal case on conditions of foster care and adoption.

So, riddle me this.

How come foster kids get passed around to lots of different places, with their worldly possessions in a plastic bag, with no shoes?

The last time I checked there was federal funding appropriated to the States to provide for the necessary needs of the child.

FUN FACT! CPS CAN REMOVE YOUR CHILD AND PLACE THEM IN FOSTER CARE BECAUSE FAILURE TO PROVIDE FOR THE NECESSARY NEEDS OF THE CHILD IS CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT

It seems we have two issues here, the first being an instance of some form of defalcation in funding, because I would really like to know why a young man has to step up and shed light upon the fact that these kids have no shoes.

The second being that Michigan is abusing and neglecting the children in its care and no one cares but this young man.

Rock on, Derrick, I see a very bright future for you.

I wonder if Nancy Edmunds can finally see that the Michigan Child Welfare System Sucks?

Perhaps, Derrick can educate Nancy.

Holly teen collects shoes for foster children

(FOX 2) - Seeing the need for foster children in our area, a Holly teen decided to do something about it.

He doesn't know what it's like to walk in their shoes, but he is trying to make sure they have a new pair of their own.

"I just thought helping the community would be a good thing to do," said Derrick Newman.

"Once he kids an idea, it is forward ho!" said his dad Steven Newman.

His dad isn't exaggerating. You first met Derrick Newman in August of 2017 when he began collecting patches from police and fire departments all over the world

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After FOX 2's story aired. his collection grew from 1,000 to almost 5,000 - with people sending them to him from as far away as Australia. His patches were sewn onto blue banners paying tribute to the officers and firefighters who put their lives on the line every day.

Now at 14, Derrick has a new mission - his dad and step-mother are in the process of adopting a foster child which got Derrick thinking.

"Most people will give them tooth brushes, toothpaste, shirts stuff like that," Derrick said. "Not shoes."

Learning about the tough times foster kids experience like often moving from home to home, Derrick decided he wanted to help.

He started a shoe drive on Facebook called "Going Somewhere (Shoes for Children in Foster Care). He is asking people to donate new pairs of money so they can purchase footwear for kids in need.

"I think that kids that are going to need a little more time to be adopted, should be able to have new pair of shoes when they need it," he said.

"A lot of foster kids - they are kids - they grow out of shoes quick, just like any kid," Steven said. "But they don't have the support to get new shoes all the time. Hopefully this will help."

Slowly the shoes are trickling in - but with the help of his dad, Derrick refuses to give up. He visits stores, posting videos and hoping people will find it in their hearts to help.

"I think it is awesome that we have gotten so much donated to us, to be able to get shoes," Derrick said.

They are in the process of choosing foster homes to donate the shoes to. Anyone is welcome to contact them on their Facebook page. Derrick sending a message to others if you are able to - do more in your community. CLICK HERE to go to the Facebook page.

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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.

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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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The Time Has Come To Terminate The Michigan Corporate Parental Rights

Matt Hall

At the threshold, waiting for that moment when Nancy Edmunds figures out that Michigan's Child Welfare System is the international model for modern day trafficking tiny humans.

Yes, that is correct, it all started in Detroit and it was transposed around the world as the Child Protection Michigan Model.

So, what we have here is another one of those placating proposed recommendations legislative actions in hopes of kicking the can down the road, once again, for Nancy Edmunds to allow the continuance of federal court ordered oversight of a system, Kevin Ryan, nor Children's Rights have no clue on how it operates for their substantial failures to address Medicaid fraud in child welfare, let alone the nefarious operations of the Michigan Children's Institute, the Michigan Children Trust Funds or the systemic problems of child trafficking, drugging, rapes, torture, suicides, attempted suicides, simply for the fact that Matt Hall knows that ruling is coming down to release the State from oversight.

How can you possibly fix a system that was originally designed to traffic children?

Seriously?

These "fixes" will do absolutely nothing because it does not address the public corruption and the Medicaid fraud in child welfare?

The time has come to terminate the corporate parental rights of Michigan, otherwise known as privatization.

There is no parallel jurisprudence in child welfare with due process.

Child welfare in Michigan is re-engineering itself to be a predictive modeling crap civil asset forfeiture system of a public debt to a foreign, private corporation to pay off their Social Impact Bonds.

Chair Hall, House Oversight Committee recommend legislative fixes regarding CPS performance audit

 State Rep. Matt Hall (R-Emmett Township) and the House Oversight Committee he chairs unanimously recommended today several proposals to protect Michigan’s most vulnerable children from abuse and neglect.

The recommended amendments to Michigan’s Child Protection Law came after the House panel conducted multiple hearings on the Michigan Office of Auditor General’s (OAG) September 2018 Performance Audit of Children’s Protective Services Investigations. The audit found 17 material conditions that called into question the effectiveness and efficiency of Children’s Protective Services (CPS) and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Hearings included testimony from the OAG, CPS, and DHHS.

“The Auditor General’s findings revealed Child Protective Services was failing to operate effectively,” Hall said. “This is a serious matter because our state’s most vulnerable children need CPS to protect them from abuse and neglect. These children have nobody else. CPS has a duty to these children to get this right.”

The Oversight Committee’s recommendations to improve Michigan’s Child Protection Law include:

• CPS should verify the well-being of all children in a home where suspected child abuse or neglect has occurred within 24 hours of reported child abuse or neglect.

• When a CPS investigation finds that a family needs to receive community-based services to alleviate a child’s risk of abuse and neglect, CPS must monitor the family to verify that they are participating in the community-based services. A license-exempt child care provider should be added to the Central Registry if a preponderance of evidence exists that he or she committed child abuse or neglect. This would treat license-exempt child care providers the same as owners, operators, volunteers, or employees of licensed or registered child care organizations, who have direct and regular contact with children in much the same manner.

• Centralized state oversight should exist to verify each county is properly developing and implementing its required child abuse and neglect investigation protocols. These protocols are intended to improve cooperation among professionals and agencies that are commonly involved in child abuse and neglect cases.

• CPS should document reasons it abbreviated an investigation and develop an abbreviated investigation checklist. Abbreviated investigations occur when an investigator discovers early on that no child abuse or neglect occurred. CPS should provide periodic reports measuring its compliance with conditions raised in the Auditor General’s September 2018 report to an appropriate oversight authority.

The Oversight Committee also recommends further investigation, perhaps by workgroups, to address CPS worker safety and potential Central Registry improvements.

 “As chairman of the House Oversight Committee, I worked closely with my Democrat and Republican colleagues to review the Auditor General’s findings and identify new laws and policies that will better protect our state’s most vulnerable children from abuse and neglect,” Hall said. “Now that the Oversight Committee has adopted this report, I will incorporate the report’s recommendations into a bipartisan package of bills to strengthen the Michigan Child Protection Law.”

 The report has been referred to the House Families, Children and Seniors Committee for further action.

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OVERSIGHT: Gosar Makes History By Asking About Child Protective Services, DHS & The Trafficking Tiny Humans Databases - SACWIS, NCMEC

Start @23:26 where Representative Paul Gosar asks McAleenan about ICE detaining children.

He asks about Child Protective Services.

He sets up the caveat of a children being taken across state lines where someone cannot provide water and safety, like ICE.

I want to see someone calling in California, Texas, Arizona Child Protective Services come in and execute their process of legally kidnapping children.

How come children in ICE do not get CPS intervention, considering CPS will snatch a kid if the wind blows in a different direction.

Elijah Cummings is not happy because ICE refuses to release information about the children.

Elijah does not know that "in the best interests of the child" DHS does not have to release anything.

Those kids are being fast tracked on concurrent planning, which means adoption.

Chatter on the streets, as Michigan got those contracts, is new identities are being assigned.

DHS cannot even mesh with SACWIS, well, at least not in Michigan because Nancy Edmunds allowed the state to dole out more money, to try and fix a human trafficking data base, that was never designed to do anything but to generate false claims in modern day residuals of the peculiar institution.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has a database, too.

Thank you, Paul, for making history.

For McAleenan to say he does not know what to do, is ground for his removal from office because all he had to do was to use google because I have databases, unless I am suppressed by Google in searches, which would mean he is being improperly advised in search results, but I digress.

The U.S. has other borders, but no one is talking about the trafficking of tiny humans from our ports or Norther boarder, or our other Southern border, in Michigan, or children from other countries, like Russia, Ukraine, Kosovo, Poland, Haiti, Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya....and the list goes on.

What is going on is the policy of Lebensborn.

I broke this down to its most simplistic factors for understanding about the industry of the residuals of the peculiar institution called Foster Care & Adoption.

Just close your eyes and allow the imagines of The Good Ship Jesus, whose cargo was tiny humans, trafficked across borders.

Once a border baby is placed in the privatized contract of a state, Michigan, the financial ratlines commence for a life of hell for these children... under Michigan laws, where MIED Judge Nancy Edmunds will not do a damn thing about for the last 15 years or so about Michigan, Child Welfare System, because it all started in Michigan.

How come no one asked the State Department to come in and discuss USAID and its foreign, child welfare corporate NGO contractors like the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops?

DWS got real on McAleenan not knowing about interior children being picked up and placed in Un Accompanied Children policy care.

This is more CPS activity of privately contracted Child Placing Agencies.

This is about parental rights.

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Michigan Praised For Covering Up Its Child Welfare Horrors

It is a very sad day when there is praise and that praise is accepted on the state of affairs in Michigan's foster care system.

Youth are still facing the reality that there is a lack of mental health services in placement leaving them without educational services or records.

No one is speaking about the rapes or suicides in child welfare.

No one is speaking upon the youth getting pregnant in foster care.

No one is even mentioning the questionable billing, the overmedication or the lack of due process in the courts.

What about the lack of oversight for contractual debarment, license revocation, or recovery of false claims.

But these items were never part of the Children's Rights action.  The case was about children in the foster care system.  No one mention was made of the Michigan Children's Institute in the legal proceedings.

So, let's stand up and give Madame Maura Corrigan her due credit for painting another pretty masterpiece to distract the world of the fact that very little has really changed.

If these changes are to be praised, let's see if there someone is going to do a longitudinal study to measure these improvements. Ask yourself this question: Would you trust your child in Michigan's foster care?

Much more needs to be done and we need to begin by letting the truth out for all to see.

State wins praise for improvements to child welfare efforts

Michigan continues to move forward with a top-to-bottom overhaul of its child welfare system four years after it settled a lawsuit that accused the state of running a "depleted and overburdened" system that threatened children's lives.

In a federal courtroom Monday afternoon, both a court-appointed monitor and the group that brought the lawsuit, New York-Children's Rights, lauded several recent measures by the Michigan Department of Human Services.

Among them:

• Extending foster care until youths are 21

• Establishing a centralized hotline for abuse and neglect reports

• Ensuring that youths transitioning out of the system have health insurance

• Hiring more than 700 child welfare workers

Just 18 months ago, the state repeatedly had failed to meet benchmarks set out in a settlement agreement signed in 2008 by DHS officials. The agreement, which dictated sweeping reforms in the system, settled the suit by Children's Rights. U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Edmunds said she wanted to give the state's new administration a chance to address the chronic problems. By July last year, Edmunds said changes were back on track.

DHS Director Maura Corrigan told the judge Monday that she hoped Edmunds would dismiss the agreement by the end of 2014.

Edmunds noted what she called "a different day, a different mindset, and a different atmosphere" in the courtroom compared to the struggles at the beginning of the reform efforts.

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Clueless In Michigan: More Trafficking Tiny Humans Lawsuits - Will St. Vincent Sarah & Bethany Christian Move To Enjoin To Nancy Edmunds' Court?

If St. Vincent and Bethany Christian can sue Michigan over new gay adoption rules, well, by golly, Michigan can sue St. Vincent and Bethany Christian, and all the other Foster Care & Adoption Agencies for Trafficking Tiny Humans.

It is only logical considering the fact that they are the ones who are trafficking tiny humans.

I wonder if the Michigan GiGi Interlopers, DHHS Robert Gordon and Garlin Gilchrist, will show up, or at least publicly admit that child trafficking is foster care and adoption.

Oh, wait.

I forgot.

Nancy Edmunds is supposed to decide if Michigan is all better when it comes to its child welfare system.

Perhaps, St. Vincent and Bethany Christian can enjoin in the Dwayne B. v. Granholm (now Gretchen Whitmore) action.

Probably not.

Trafficking tiny humans through foster care and adoption is how St. Vincent and Bethany Christian maximizes their revenues.

As for the LBQRSTUV adoption issue, it is just a legal property ownership argument under the law of chattels.

Welcome to Foster Care & Adoption in Michigan, oops, I mean, human trafficking.

Happy Child Abuse Propaganda Month!

Adoption agency sues state over new gay adoption rules

Michigan DHHS Director Robert Gordon,
& Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist - Clueless in Michigan

An adoptive mother, a former foster child, and a Michigan faith-based adoption agency are challenging a recent state settlement that bans state contracts with foster and adoption agencies that refuse to work with gay couples.

St. Vincent Catholic Charities, former foster child Shamber Flore, and Melissa Buck, a mother of five special needs kids adopted through St. Vincent, filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging the new rules violated the group’s First Amendment rights. The agency is represented by religious liberty group, Becket Law.

The lawsuit is filed against Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Robert Gordon, Children's Services Agency Director Herman McCall, Attorney General Dana Nessel, the federal Health and Human Services department and its secretary, Alex Azar.

The lawsuit asks the court to issue an injunction on the settlement's provisions that would require the state to stop contracting with agencies that, because of their religious beliefs, refuse to work with same-sex couples.

Nessel's office declined to comment until officials had a chance to review the lawsuit. 

In a Monday statement announcing the lawsuit, Buck, of Holt, said her family still relies on the support of St. Vincent “in every step of our journey together as a family" and could have problems should the family look to adopt siblings of their adopted children through St. Vincent in the future.

“We are hopeful that the courts will step in, do the right thing and allow faith-based agencies to continue to help vulnerable families like mine,” Buck said.

In March, Nessel reached a settlement with the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and two gay couples who had sued the state when they were rejected by agencies with religious objections to same-sex couples. The agencies were St. Vincent Catholic Charities and Bethany Christian Services.

The settlement required the state Department of Health and Human Services to maintain non-discriminatory provisions in foster care and adoption agency contracts by ending state contracts with agencies if they discriminate against same-sex couples.

Because the settlement was between the state attorney general's department and the ACLU, St. Vincent as an intervenor in the lawsuit had no option but to file a separate action, said Nick Reaves, a lawyer for Becket.

Without the state contract, St. Vincent would be forced to close its doors and the settlement could have a similar effect on "any other organization that shares their religious beliefs," Reaves said. He added that he is not aware of any contracts being dropped so far in light of the March settlement.

“Faith-based agencies like St. Vincent consistently do the best work because of their faith, and we need more agencies like them helping children — not fewer,” Becket President Mark Rienzi said in a statement.

Catholic agencies make up a small portion of the 58 private agencies that contract with the state for adoption and foster care services, proving "there really isn't any access problem" for gay couples seeking an agency through which they can adopt, Reaves said.

For example, in Ingham County, 17 other adoption agencies besides St. Vincent are available to parents seeking to adopt, he said.

Agencies already can refer couples to different adoption agencies for various reasons, including geography, wait lists or a family's search for a specific type of child.

Further, a same-sex couple still can adopt a child within St. Vincent after receiving a home study and becoming a certified pre-adoptive home through a different agency, St. Vincent said in its lawsuit.

Nessel’s office maintained a 2015 law passed by the Republican-led Legislature only protected faith-based agencies that declined to provide services based on religion when it came to “private action.” The protection did not carry over into state-contracted services, she argued.

Such a conclusion is in "serious tension" with previous interpretations of the law and the language of the law itself, Reaves said.

Republican former Attorney General Bill Schuette had defended the state against the ACLU lawsuit when it was filed in 2017. But even before taking office Jan. 1, Nessel had signaled she would not continue to support Schuette's position on the lawsuit.

As of mid-February, St. Vincent and Bethany were responsible for nearly 10% of the more than 13,000 children under state supervision.

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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

Statement of Stephanie Jezowski in the Michigan Children's Rights Case MIED - Synopsis for Release - 8-09-2... by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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Why Orlene Hawks Needs To Leave Michigan Businesses & Children Alone - MIED Status Conference 3-13-2019

It was under Orlene's watch why nothing has happened to end Medicaid fraud in child welfare.

Michigan Child Welfare System Needs To Be Put Under Federal Emergency Management

Hopefully, Nancy Edmunds will finally realize that it is time for federal intervention because this case has been going on for over 10 years, with no improvement but lots of attorney fees for Children's Rights, not one penny for the kids, without one mention of Michigan Children's Institute Superintendent, the legal guardian, the one and only corporate parent for over 10,000 children in foster care.

I wonder if the Court will address the Michigan Children's Trust Fund, Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children, which is what DACA and the border children issues are about since Congress is clueless, but then again, we are dealing with UCC and Corporate Shape Shifters, so I have no idea.

Perhaps, the Court should have someone ask Orlene to explain about the Corporate Shape Shifters and the fake billing in Michigan Child Welfare, considering the fact that she really, really wants that job as LARA Director.

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NOTICE TO APPEAR: Status Conference set for 3/13/2019 11:00 AM before District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds (LBar) (Entered: 01/02/2019)

State director moves to avoid pot conflict because of lobbyist spouse

Orlene Hawks
Clueless in Michigan

Lansing — The director of a sprawling state department said Wednesday she has agreed to take extra precautions to avoid potential conflicts of interest related to the regulation or licensing of businesses her lobbyist husband may represent.

“I pride myself on honesty and integrity,” Orlene Hawks, director of the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, told lawmakers who are considering her appointment by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Hawks’ husband, Michael Hawks, is a registered lobbyist and an owner of Governmental Consultant Services, Inc., one of Lansing's largest lobbyist firms.

GCSI represents companies and associations for industries overseen by the department his wife now leads, including businesses entering Michigan’s burgeoning marijuana industry that must obtain state licenses to operate.

Hawks said she does not anticipate significant ethical complications in her role but has adopted a conflict "avoidance" plan and would delegate authority to deputies should issues arise.

“When I make a decision as director, it will be based on the interest of the public and not any private interest,” she said.

The 10-page compliance plan, signed by Hawks on Tuesday and provided to The Detroit News, specifies that she will not hold any financial interest in her husband's lobbying firm and will not personally participate in contract negotiations or permit decisions for any business that employs GCSI. The agreement includes other general conflict-of-interest provisions.

Whitmer last week issued an executive order that will abolish a politically appointed medical marijuana licensing board and create a new Marijuana Regulatory Agency within the department to regulate both medical and recreational marijuana.

Because it will be a “type 1” agency, the new licensing authority will operate autonomously from the department, aside from budgeting and administrative services, Hawks said.

“Everything else, decision making and otherwise, will be with the executive director that is appointed by the governor,” she told reporters after the hearing.

Michael Hawks was named the second most effective multi-client lobbyist in the state by a 2017 MIRS/EPIC-MRA Insider Survey.

Clients at his lobbying firm include the Michigan Cannabis Development Association, Cannarbor, Medifarm and PSI Labs. Other GCSI clients include the Michigan Beer and Wine Wholesalers and Consumers Energy, which are regulated by other type 1 department subsidiaries, the Liquor Control Commission and the Public Service Commission.

Director Hawks testified before the Senate and Advice Committee, which is considering most of Whitmer’s cabinet-level appointments. The Republican-led Legislature has not yet challenged any of the Democratic governor’s picks.

Chairman Pete Lucido, R-Shelby Township, asked Hawks about the potential conflict of interest, citing speculation on “the streets of Lansing” and said he was satisfied with her avoidance plan and commitment to her oath of office.

“That’s all we have to go on up here,” Lucido said. “There’s no law that permits or discriminates against her taking the position.”

Hawks described herself as a dedicated public servant who has worked in various state government roles for two decades, including as the director of Children’s Ombudsman under former Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican.

Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr., D-East Lansing, praised Hawks and noted he worked for her 17 years ago in what was then known as the state Department of Community Health.

“Having known Orlene for as long as I’ve known her, I don’t think she would ever let anyone influence from the outside. I think she’s a confident public servant. I’m satisfied with (the conflict policy) they put into place, and I’m sure they have to do that for some reasons, but I wouldn’t be concerned either way.”

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Why Michigan Child Welfare System Sucks - SACWIS Is Run By The Foreign Corporation UNISYS & No One Is Willing To Talk About What Happens To The Data

I need someone to explain to me why the State of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is not under federal receivership.

Reports on Michigan child welfare ‘depressing,’ says judge

Not one penny went to help the parents who raise their kids in state manufactured poverty that is legally considered abuse and neglect.

The only thing Children's Rights has done is bill the State of Michigan for attorney fees and oversight contract monitoring that has done absolutely nothing.

Not once has the Nancy Edmunds Court mentioned UNISYS, the private, foreign corporation that keeps one billing, and billing, and billing for a jacked up system that they are trying really hard to set up that jacked up predictive modeling for the purposes of having a go to database for asset forfeiture to the corporate parent, who, in this instance, we have no idea, because it is a foreign corporation.

Children have no civil rights when it comes to privatized foreign corporations doing human services in Michigan.

Perhaps, someone in that Children's Rights case could ask Peter Altabef or Shalabh Gupta if they could shed some light about their understanding that these errors in SACWIS are called rape, torture, suicide, and result in modern human trafficking.

Who knows, maybe Michigan will one day be under federal receivership so we could just pull all the data and financial transaction to find out why we even need a child welfare system and what they do with the data.

State of Michigan Taps Unisys to Build New Child Welfare Services System

Unisys will design and maintain integrated system to meet new data quality and information-sharing requirements

The new contract was awarded in the first quarter of this year and will run three years, and the State of Michigan may extend it for two additional one-year periods at its discretion. This contract has a value of approximately $30 million, and the State may order additional services that could bring the total potential value of the contract to approximately $47 million. ~ 2011

Troubled DHHS software improves

And, while MiSACWIS cost about $18 million more than the original contract, Wheaton said those expenses were all planned and unrelated to any bugs: A $10.6 million second-year contract extension with Unisys Corp., the Pennsylvania-based company that built the software, and about $7 million to add the state’s juvenile justice and County Child Care Fund agencies into the system. 

Some 8,000 people in public and private agencies use the software. ~ 2015 

Yes, private, foreign corporations have access to our children's data and they use it for fraudulent billing in Medicaid through foster care and adoption.

Unisys Corporation

DUNS:  005358932     CAGE Code:  09975    Status:  Active

801 Lakeview Dr Ste 100

Blue Bell, PA, 19422-1961 ,
UNITED STATES

Expiration Date:  10/03/2019
NAICS: 334111 - Electronic Computer Manufacturing

Registration Date: 01-08-2002

ID Number: 800990841

Summary for:  UNISYS CORPORATION              

The name of the FOREIGN PROFIT CORPORATION:   UNISYS CORPORATION

The prior true name in home state: BURROUGHS CORPORATION changed on: 12-05-1986 The prior true name in home state: BURROUGHS DELAWARE INCORPORATED changed on: 06-28-1984

Entity type:   FOREIGN PROFIT CORPORATION Identification Number: 800990841 Old ID Number: 605095

Date of Qualification in Michigan:   04/02/1984

Incorporated under the laws of: the state of Delaware


Term: Perpetual

Most Recent Annual Report: 2018

Most Recent Annual Report with Officers & Directors:   2018

The name and address of the Resident Agent: Resident Agent Name: CSC-LAWYERS INCORPORATING SERVICE (COMPANY) Street Address: 601 ABBOT ROAD Apt/Suite/Other: City: EAST LANSING, MI 48823 State: MI

The Officers and Directors of the Corporation:

Title Name Address PRESIDENT PETER ALTABEF 801 LAKEVIEW DRIVE, SUITE 100 BLUEBELL, PA 19422 USA TREASURER SHALABH GUPTA 801 LAKEVIEW DRIVE, SUITE 100 BLUEBELL, PA 19422 USA SECRETARY GERALD KENNEY 801 LAKEVIEW DRIVE, SUITE 100 BLUEBELL, PA 19422 USA DIRECTOR LEE ROBERTS 801 LAKEVIEW DRIVE, SUITE 100 BLUEBELL, PA 19422 USA

Total Authorized Shares:  140,000,000
Shares Attributable to Michigan:  3,265,920
Most Recent Apportionment %:  2.0600%
Year Ending: 2016

These flaws in SACWIS lead to the trauma of children being legally kidnapped, drugged, raped, tortured, suicided, murdered, and a substantial maximization of profits.

Someone needs to be held accountable.

Someone needs to stop this madness.

Report: Flawed state software program could hurt Michigan children

Shalabh Gupta, UNISYS Corporation, Treasurer
(There are lots of Shalabh Gupta's out there)
[The face of a man who cares about profits over kids]

Correction: This article has been updated to reflect that the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services will take until June 27 to decide how to respond to a report recommending it replace a $231-million computer system. A spokesman provided incorrect information for an earlier version of this article.

LANSING — The computer system Michigan child welfare workers use to track neglect and abuse cases is deeply flawed and could lead to issues that hurt children and families, a report released Wednesday in federal court states.

The report recommended Michigan abandon the computer program, which has "persistent and significant defects" despite $231 million in state and federal investment in the program since it launched in 2014.

The Michigan Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System, or MiSACWIS, is used for cases in the state's child protective services, foster care, adoption, licensing and juvenile justice system.

Peter Altabef, UNISYS President

"[Michigan] should procure or develop a new child welfare information system that does not rely, in any significant way, on the infrastructure, design, and data model of the current MiSACWIS," the report states.

DHHS will study the report in coming weeks to decide how to address the issues, an official said.

"We know MiSACWIS has major problems, as the court report and the hearing highlighted," said Geralyn Lasher, senior deputy director for external relations and communications at DHHS.  

"The court has given us until June 27 to determine the appropriate next steps. We will take that time to do so."

Report follows 10+ years of court oversight

Federal court monitors continue to review the quality of the Michigan's child welfare programs, which came under court oversight after the settlement of a 2006 class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of children in the foster system who attorneys argued were mistreated in state care.

Last year, Judge Nancy Edmunds ordered a review of MiSACWIS because poor data quality had "prevented, delayed or stymied efforts by court monitors to verify the state's progress" in improving its child welfare system, according to the report written by consultant Kurt Heisler.

In the report, Heisler highlighted four key issues with MiSACWIS: 

• Flawed design and launch causing continued problems. Those problems include "an unmanageable backlog of defects, incidents, and data fixes that are likely to persist indefinitely, inhibit effective casework, contribute to data entry errors, negatively affect outcomes for children and families, and impact MDHHS's ability to collect and report accurate and timely ... data for both the monitors and field staff.
• Conflict hindering fixes. There is "significant conflict and tension" between the software integration team and Children's Services Agency, which have made it difficult for caseworkers to improve MiSACWIS.
• Not enough time to fix backlogs. Developers don't have the time or resources to find or fix the root causes of problems with MiSACWIS.
• Not enough time for quality review. Limited resources, a big workload and tight deadlines means there isn't time available for workers to run quality assurance checks. 

Although he recommended developing an entirely new system, Heisler said Michigan could fix the current system and update it to match a newer federal model.

New report, old problems

The department launched MiSACWIS in April 2014, pitching it as an improved, "real-time" case management tool child welfare workers would use for CPS, foster care and adoption cases.

The tool was supposed to make it easier for those workers to monitor cases, track progress and services offered to clients and ensure better safety for children. It was supposed to help more than 6,000 DHHS, private agency and court workers share case data.

Three years after its launch, state auditors uncovered problems with the MiSACWIS system. They reported the state did not properly merge records in MiSACWIS before launching the program, left 208 child welfare cases unassigned, issued thousands of potentially inaccurate payments and more.

Auditors again pointed to problems with MiSACWIS in a report issued last year. They reported workers were inconsistent in documenting case work in the system, the system did not retain certain documents and inaccurately filled in information about the risks children faced, among others.

DHHS officials announced they would make changes to protocol late last year in response to that audit, including implementing a thorough checklist they said will ensure case workers follow department protocol and document their work.

Those changes are not related to MiSACWIS, Wheaton said.

The state's response

On Wednesday, department officials said they are making changes to address the flaws highlighted in court, including:

• Providing financial incentives for relatives to become licensed foster parents
• Strengthen review at local child welfare offices of maltreatment that occurs while children are in foster care
• Add oversight of child abuse and neglect complaints that don't meet the criteria for investigation under state law

DHHS director Robert Gordon, who was appointed in January, said child welfare workers can use data to improve their work despite the problems with MiSACWIS.

"Our staff are deeply dedicated to serving children and families in crisis," he said in a press release. "They need the tools and the systems to succeed. That’s what we must offer them."

Wheaton said the department will determine how it will fix the MiSACWIS program before the next court hearing, scheduled June 27.

More: More Michigan kids die despite 10 years of trying to fix the system meant to protect them

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