It's time for American family's to stand together against CPS and family court corruption. Over the past two years I have been investigating CPS cases that are effecting families across this nation. And what I have found in my investigation will shock and surprise you. After looking into the allegations of many families from across the nation about CPS overreach, misconduct, and civil rights violations I have discovered some facts that about the organization that will shake you to your core. I have personal knowledge of the issues families are facing as they struggle while navigating their cases in the family courts. Lack of effective counsel and denial of due process rights in case after case. These are just a few of the ongoing systematic violations against families across this nation with CPS and the family courts.They say there are oversight committees and people that hold them accountable for their activities but in my experience and the experience of the families I have worked with, there is no oversight. The judges and commissioners involved in these cases also not only condone but facilitate the injustice in their courtrooms against families and children without the batting of an eye. They say the things they do are all in the best interest of the child but what I have seen indicates different. Now could it be in any childs best interest to be removed from their entire families without cause? We aren't talking about just one bad parent or even two bad parents, but their entire families. We are talking about aunts uncles cousins grandparents all being excluded. I have witnessed parents being threatened to lose their visits for protesting to the actions of CPS in the courts. I have seen the support networks of families destroyed by family court and case workers across this nation forcing parents to stop relationships with long term family support networks. With familial ties and advocacy on behalf of parents and children completely ignored. In there FST meetings they are supposed to be facilitating theunification of children with their families yet at these FST meetings the children are usually not present and are not a part of the planning of their case. Any advocates on behalf of the parents and children are usually excluded from these meetings as well. I have even seen grandparents be disallowed from attending hearings regarding their grandchildren. Not only disallowed from coming to the hearing but completely disallowed from even coming into the cour house at all. We're talking about tax paying citizens that have every reason and every right to be in the court house, even if they're not allowed to go into the hearing. I have witnessed and have first hand evidence of court records being fudged and changed and clear acts of judicial overreach and biased and unfair hearings. I have personal knowledge of grandparents being issued restraining orders with their grandchildren for nothing more than fighting for their grandchildren and children's rights. The courts use these protective orders as punitive actions against parents and grandparents for advocating for their rights. Some of the things that I've seen in MANY of these cases shock me to my core. I question, how can these things happen in America? I even have knowledge of families being put out of their homes that they have been buying for several years through pressure by state and city officials on their landlords and property managers. Often their children have been taken into custody unlawfully. Many entities across the state, county and city come together to conspire to systematically violate the civil rights of parents and families. The time is now to stand and take action. For the safety and future of our children. These people are stealing the innocence of our children and they do not lose a bit of sleep over it. It's time to hold them accountable. Stop immunity for unlawful acts by the judges case workers prosecuting attorneys and anyone that's involved in any type of civil rights violations or unlawful activity against families and children across the nation. Let's bring forth legislation to hold them accountable for their activities. Including jail time and fines when they are found to knowingly and purposely conspire with others to violate the rights of children and families. Systematically removing children and isolating them from their entire families without cause, is not invest interest of any child. Providing families with no due process and no equal protection cannot continue. Stop them from threatening to remove visits from parents who protest against their unlawful acts and make them follow the policies that they have set in place. It has been my experience from what I have seen that they do not even follow their own policies that they have in place to protect families and children and to mitigate the reasons for children to be removed from their homes. They have come accustomed to taking children into custody unlawfully and putting them into foster care to support their six-figure incomes. It isn't about the best interest of the children in any of the cases that I have seen. It is about the federal funding and it is about their six-figure incomes. I'm pretty sure there's very few children on the planet, that it is in their best interest to be removed from their entire families in the blink of an eye, without cause. No one (in some of these families) has any reason to have their familial rights severed. And the hardest hit victims are the children. They don't understand what is taking place and there's little they can do to control the situation. Their families and parents are fighting the state with all they have and all they can but the state is relentless and gives them no opportunity to prove their innocence or to counter the (often times) total lies that the state is asserting. Without the guarantee of due process rights in a court of law we cannot have faith in our judiciary. These parents aren't giving due process and only given court appointed attorneys that do not advocate for them. No justice can be found. And then after all this they try to terminate parental rights without providing any due process whatsoever. Having your parental rights terminated is like the death penalty in a civil case. I know 90% of the parents that I have spoken with say they would much rather do time in jail than to lose their children forever to the state. I agree. If it's so fundamental that we give them proper counsel in a criminal trial is just as fundamental in a civil trial when you're parental rights are threatened. So the need for effective representation in these cases is crucial. We need legislation that makes the state prove the allegations of abuse and neglect. This predominance of the evidence bar is not cutting it. They can throw just about anything in under the blanket of neglect and facilitate the removal of children for next to nothing and sometimes nothing at all except allegations and lies. Caseworkers often lie and misrepresent the evidence and perjure themselves without any consequences whatsoever. They are not reprimanded, fired or anything for their egregious activities. I have seen them violate their own policies time and time again and when you bring up any of the abuses they have brought upon your family they retaliate against you and cause you more damage. Threatening to remove your visits and everything you can possibly imagine that someone could be threatened with when it comes to the care and safety of their children. Please help me in standing now. Let's show these people they will be held accountable for their activity and that we want them to follow the policies they have set out before them to protect children and mitigate the reasons for out of home placements. I mean these are their policies The least they could do is follow their own policies.
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