Tag: Michigan CPS Defense
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CPS Investigates Family of 8-Year-Old Who Stabbed Another Child in Kent County
Police and Child Protective Services are currently investigating the family of an 8-year-old boy from Kent County who is accused of stabbing another, 12-year-old child. According to police records, the incident took place in Grand Rapids, at about 8 pm on November 9th. It is reminiscent of the Jamarion Lawhorn case, where an abused and…
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Children Taken From Parents, Found Mysteriously Dead
A Michigan couple have been found dead in their home, where police say that Child Protective Services recently removed two children. The situation itself is a mystery, and is still under investigation by police. Not many details have been released about the circumstances surrounding the couple’s death, nor with regard to the children taken by…
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Michigan to Start Compensating Those Wrongfully Convicted of Abuse?
Imagine this. Your three year old daughter, whom you love with all your heart, trips and falls down the basement stairs. She bumps her head at the bottom, and being a concerned parent, you take her to the emergency room and you’re told she’s fine. For a few days, everything is normal, and suddenly she…
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Foster Care: What Are The Long Term Effects?
When kids are taken from their homes by CPS workers, they are viewed as having been ‘rescued’ and will now be placed with a ‘loving family’ that will care for them. Sometimes it really does happen this way. But few people stop to think what really happens to those kids. They are all presumed to…
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Victory for the Family Defense Center in Three Civil Rights Cases
The Family Defense Center is a non-profit organization that focuses on advocating for justice for families whose children have been removed by overzealous child welfare systems. According to their website, a great many parents around the U.S. “lose custody of their children to state foster care systems primarily because they are poor or because they…
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Predictive Analytics in Child Welfare – Helping Hand, or Racial Bias? 2
Having looked at the concern that several people have expressed regarding the way in which predictive analytics may be violating civil rights when used improperly in the criminal justice system, we’re now moving on to talk about how predictive analytics would affect the fairness of child welfare. In July of 2015, the County of Los…
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Predictive Analytics in Child Welfare – Helping Hand, or Racial Bias? 1
In 2014, then-Attorney General to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Eric Holder, expressed open concern about the use of predictive analytics in the criminal justice system. For those of you who haven’t encountered this term before, predictive analytics refers to an advanced form of analytics, which is used to make predictions about unknown future events. Predictive…
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Child Welfare in Michigan – Why It’s Not Working
Michigan has a long history of poor reviews of our child welfare system. Every year, the rising numbers of children unnecessarily removed from their homes, and suffering in poverty is record-breaking. But the one fact that gets brought up again and again is the issue of child removal. Children in Michigan are regularly removed…
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CPS Takes Baby Found in Home With Dead Women
Genesee County Children’s Protective Services (Michigan CPS workers) were called to the scene of a suspected double murder recently, where investigating police officers found two dead women and one unharmed baby. The incident took place in Flint at about 9:30 in the evening on Tuesday, April 19th. Responding officers arrived at the Ridgecrest Village…
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CPS in Allegan County Accused of Screwing Up Again
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes” is an old Latin quote that means, “who watches the watchers?”, or more simply, “who guards the guards?” And when it comes to Michigan’s Child Protective Agency, this couldn’t be a more poignant question. But the answer in this case is the Office of Children’s Ombudsman. The Office of Children’s…