Help STOP the WAR on 'KIDS'

  • by: Jerri Dutton
  • recipient: Jerri Dutton, Supervisors and CM of DFCS, DFCS
Many organizations who promote change limit their participation to "passing along information," making referrals, organizing and basically making a very stable living off of the situation as it is and truly have no desire to see the changes needed being made. As long as there is confusion, discontent and suffering these advocates will make a substantial living and exist on the status quo. What is really needed is a group to form that will use the financial resources to take some of these cases to court and get these cases into the higher courts and make these changes that the lower courts will have to abide by if the legislators can't seem to get the message. Many of these groups will never do anything more than promote change, pass out fliers, pamphlets, and make referrals. Change can come about, look at what Ralph Nader has done for the consumer; look at what the American Civil Liberties Union has done for the rights of some individuals and many organizations. It should be said that the rights of children are not a priority of the American Civil Liberties Union. Change is not likely to come about until it is needed by the many instead of the few, that is the way the system works in this democracy. If corruption was confronted and dealt with because it is the right thing to do, there would not be much corruption.
I have found that there is an extreme amount of resistance in the legislature to even acknowledge that the taxpayers are funding this fraud, corruption, official misconduct and negligence. I very strongly suspect that the reason for this is that many of the agencies, individuals and professionals who profit at the expense of the taxpayer and the welfare of our nations children are also heavy contributors to the campaigns of the elected who pass the laws that promote this profit.

I also suspect that any elected legislator who does take a stance of these issues and acknowledge that there is a need to investigate this fraud, corruption, official misconduct and negligence in the child welfare system would be committing "political suicide."

From time to time the news media does indeed touch upon these issues and it is even more true that since the popularity of the Internet there is an abundance of web sites that cover many of these issues that the press appears to "back away from."

I also highly suspect that one of the main reasons there is not the level of public scrutiny these issues demand is that the majority of the population just is not directly affected by fraud, corruption, official misconduct and negligence in the child welfare system and the politician is actually personally better off not to acknowledge these problems and issues.

I have been praying, watching, waiting, and hoping for the day when those appointed, and elected,
individuals who have accepted the public trust realize that there is a need for "open public hearings" regarding fraud, corruption, official misconduct and negligence in the child welfare system on a State and more specifically on the Federal level and that congressional hearings would be most appropriate.

As I very strongly believe it is only a matter of time when these issues cannot be ignored any longer and that there will be a time when these injustices will no longer be tolerated by this society for the truth is that these problems and issues are not going to go away and they are getting worse as time goes by and those agencies and people who are not being subjected to competent oversight and review are eventually going to be an embarrassment and an outrageous "black mark" in this nation's history when the public finally realizes the scope and extent of what the taxpayer has been funding in the name of child protection.

When the current child protection laws are "corrected," to not only protect children from actual abuse situations, but to also protect children from negligent and incompetent social workers, psychologists, judges, and prosecutors, as well as many of the court appointed attorneys involved then we will have effective and just child protection laws.

Any law that can effectively protect children must also effectively acknowledge system abuse, incompetence, and negligence in order to protect children. If the government cannot, or will not, protect children from its own negligence and incompetence, then many of these children will not be protected and when this happens while the government intervenes in these cases the government and its many taxpayer funded agencies then becomes responsible for promoting the child abuse it presents to the public it intends to prevent. These children suffer the injustice and indifference promoted by those presumed to protect the best interests and the rights of children who profit from the current laws, procedures, and public policies.

Fraud, corruption, official misconduct and negligence in the child welfare system is not a popular subject with the elected or there would have been much more recognition of the problem and the issues by now. I can only hope that your awareness and intertest of these issues will make a difference and that children's rights will someday cease to be mere rhetoric and politics as usual.

I want to thank you for your valuable time by allowing me the opportunity to communicate with you on these issues and I pray that you will listen. I also want to thank you for considering that these issues are important to the needs and rights that our nation's children deserve.
It has been most disturbing to discover the extent to which this nation's prosecutors are given wide discretionary authority to fabricate allegations, manufacture evidence, and even participate in instructing state's witnesses how to commit perjury against US citizen's accused of crimes the prosecutor knows are false while these prosecutors have totally immunity from civil lawsuits when prosecutors are caught applying these tactics against a citizen, or even in cases involving a child's welfare during child protective proceedings in courts.

(Substantive Due Process Under The Georgia State Constitution)
(Asserted by all Plaintiffs and Class members against DFCS Defendants)
193. Each and every allegation of the Complaint is incorporated herein as if fully set forth.
194.
The foregoing actions and inactions of DFCS Defendants constitute a failure to exercise an affirmative duty to protect the welfare of all Plaintiffs and Class members, which is a substantial factor leading to, and proximate cause of, the violation of the constitutionally protected liberty and privacy interests of all of the Plaintiffs and Class members. The forgoing actions and inactions of DFCS Defendants constitute a policy, pattern, practice and/or custom that is inconsistent with the exercise of reasonable professional judgment and amounts to deliberate indifference to the serious and constitutionally protected rights and liberty and privacy interests of all Plaintiffs and Class members. As a result, all Plaintiffs and Class members have been and are being deprived of the substantive due process rights conferred upon them by Article I, Section I, Paragraph I of the Georgia State Constitution. Defendants have arbitrarily and capriciously deprived Plaintiffs and Class members of their due process rights in the absence of any countervailing state interest.
195.
These substantive due process rights include, but are not limited to: the right to protection of their person and from unnecessary harm while in government custody; the right to a living environment that protects foster children's physical, mental and emotional safety and well-being; the right to services necessary to prevent foster children from deteriorating or being harmed physically, psychologically, or otherwise while in government custody, including but not limited to the right to safe and secure foster care placements, appropriate monitoring and supervision, appropriate planning and services directed toward ensuring that the child can leave foster care and grow up in a permanent family, and adequate medical, dental, psychiatric, psychological, and educational services; the right not to be deprived of liberty by retention in government custody or locked detention facilities beyond necessity; the right to treatment and care consistent with the purpose of the assumption of custody by DFCS Defendants; the right not to be retained in custody longer than is necessary to accomplish the purposes to be served by taking the child into custody; and the right to receive care, treatment and services determined and provided through the exercise of accepted, reasonable professional judgment.

Do Not Allow this to CONTINUE to happen to any more Families....Please the future of our world is in the hands of the children. So what good are we to them if we DON'T do something to end this war on DFCS and CM? Help is NEEDED, NOW! Our President isn't going to do it, our elected officials are cowards, and DFCS, as if! Sign this petition not only for yourself but for ours TOO! !
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