TEAR's for Family Continuity

Letter to M. Lundstrom from the Sacramento Bee attempting to correspond with her regarding my experience with CPS. I have contacted M. Lundstrom several times but it seems that the Sacramento Bee is bias in their reporting and unwilling to address ALL of the issues regarding Sacramento County CPS and the family court system.

I'm writing to you in regards to your investigation of Sacramento County Child Protective Services (CPS). Your investigation and follow-up is extremely valuable to expose the corruption from within CPS. Sacramento CPS has "bent" the policy and function of the agency so often, that they believe they can do whatever they want, whenever they want, and it's ok because it's in the "best interest of the child". They have no shame when they are confronted with violations on their part, even when they are blatantly obvious. Changing documents, ommitting vital information, and cover-up for prior social workers and their "investigations" happen more frequently than many are willing to admit. I have first hand knowledge of CPS and their corruption because I have been fighting with them for 3 years now.

The so called "investigations" conducted by CPS go far beyond the children that are returned to unsafe homes with their lives at risk. They cannot conduct investiagations at any level. If CPS makes a visit to a home because of a report, an investigation should follow. However, in my case, one never occured. Here I am, 3 years later, fighting the system for my children back when they never should have been taken in the first place. I had no CPS history, criminal history, and provided them with more than enough info to prove my innocence. Not one time, was I able to provide that information. It was omitted from documentation, and along the way encounter several "altered" documents covering up for other social workers who did not do their job properly. It is a very important issue that puts children in the system when there is no need to. Which in turn, creates more cases and more work for CPS when their focus needs to be on children in real danger and literal life or death situations.

I'm sure in your investigation, you found a lot of these situations. There has also been investigations of the "system" that come to the same conclusion. I'm not sure if you are familiar with the investigation conducted by the Blue Ribbon Commision. They too concluded that the system is loaded with children that never needed to be removed in the first place. Another investigation of Sacramento County CPS found the same issue. In addition to some findings that discussed CPS inability to admit their mistakes when they are wrong. Children being improperly removed are among those findings.

A local man by the name Don Lyons wrote a book called WARNING! The Truth About Child Protective Services and the Staggering Impact on Society.  If you have not done so already, I reccommend that you do read it.  It provides detailed info about his experiences with "the system".  I'm sure you already know that what he describes in his book are daily happenings, "business as usual" for Sacramento County CPS. Almost everything he encountered in "the system" are almost identical to my experiences.  Something I did learn while reading his book was the responsibility of the judges/referees/court system.