Tag: CPS Defense Attorney
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Does CPS Investigate Every Single Allegation Made?
The answer is yes. And no. (Confusing, right?) If an allegation is made about a child being abused or neglected, CPS is required to investigate the claim. However, there’s a little more to it than that. Sometimes an investigation amounts to nothing, and there are usually reasons for that. Sometimes the claim obviously doesn’t warrant…
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What You Need to Know About Suing CPS in Michigan’s Federal Court
The thought of suing CPS can be a very daunting process. After all, they have access to enormous resources, and have “the law on their side” – or so they’d like you to think. But when CPS has violated your constitutional rights, sometimes you have no other option but to fight fire with fire. And…
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What is ‘Brittle Bone Disease’ And Why Does it Matter to CPS?(Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us. We’ve been talking about brittle bone disease and how it’s been the cause of so many falsely accused parents here in Michigan. As we pointed out before, in the previous article, most cases of brittle bone disease happen when worried parents take their crying babies to hospital to…
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What is ‘Brittle Bone Disease’ And Why Does it Matter to CPS? (Pt 1)
You might never have even heard of it before. Many people haven’t. But ‘Brittle Bone Disease‘, which is also known as ‘Fragile Bone Syndrome’ is a very serious condition that has made life incredibly hard for many families over the years. How, you wonder? By having innocent children with undiagnosed medical conditions torn from their…
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The House Oversight Committee Begins CPS Hearings.
If you follow our blog, then you already know that a recent audit done by the Office of the Auditor General, called CPS out on the frightening number of things they were mismanaging,. They’ve also made it plain that things need to change. But how exactly are we going to implement that change? Well,…
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Will CPS Make me Take a Polygraph During a Child Abuse Investigation? (Pt 1)
Most people have seen lie detector tests in the movies, but never in real life. Usually it’s some intense FBI thriller, and they’re trying to catch a bad guy. Because in the movies, good guys are never subjected to polygraph tests. Oh and in the movies, the polygraphs are always completely accurate and 100% certain.…
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Charges Upheld Against L.A. CPS Workers For Boy’s Horrific Death
In 2013, 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez died after being beaten, burned, and shot with B.B.s by his mother and her boyfriend. Medical staff said they removed B.B. pellets from his groin and lung in the aftermath. Horrific as his death was, however, what made it so much worse was the fact that it didn’t come as…
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Does Losing Your Water Mean Losing Your Kids As Well?
The University of Michigan recently conducted a study that looked at, among other things, the cost of living in Detroit. One of the issues addressed was the monthly water bill of most Detroit residents. What did they find? That the average Detroit family paid about $100 per month, which is twice what the federal affordability…
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Gov. Snyder Forms a Team to Address CPS’s “Unacceptable” Failures!
The fact that what CPS does is sometimes “unacceptable” might be news to other people, but we’ve been saying it for decades. So the news story making the rounds right now about the new watchdog assigned to investigate CPS and the unspeakable number of badly mismanaged cases they’ve botched in recent years comes as no…
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How a Recent Federal Law Will Change Foster Care in America!
The things that President Trump does, get a lot of press time – both from his supporters and from his detractors. However, not every bill he’s signed into law has got the coverage it’s deserved, and the Family First Prevention Services Act is no exception. Tucked into a massive spending bill that rolled out in…