TEAR's for Family Continuity

From the moment you give birth to your child

And hold them in your arms

A circle forms around the family

And produces the strongest of bonds

The invisible ties that bind you,

Are stronger than any steel

When one of you is being ripped away

That bond becomes stronger still

If your like me,

And you understand these bonds

Than the child thieves

Don’t have free will

The invisible chains that link our hearts,

Our bodies, our memories, our souls,

Don’t simply dissolve because you believe

You have the right to seize and control

Our family is not broken…

Or it wasn’t until YOU came

And just let me state for the record

There’s nothing here for you to gain

So you can continue to throw stones at our castle

But we will never refrain!

Written by: Heather Hoover (10*25*2009)

CORRUPTION OF CALIFORNIA COURTS CONTINUES
 Sturgeon v County of Los Angeles
Judges paid by LA County for illegal rulings to steal children, property and assets.

County of Los Angeles - who was paying Ca. judges an extra and illegal $46,000 a year on top of their state salary of $178,000., when the payments by California counties were ruled unconstitutional in the Sturgeon v County of Los Angeles case in October last year, Chief Justice George hired a lobbyist at $9,000 a month - from taxpayers no less - to bludgeon the state legislature to pass a bill in February of this year in the dead of night, to allow counties to continue those payments and to grant retroactive immunity to all those who had been receiving those payments for the last 20 years. Just in Los Angeles County alone, that amount is estimated to be about $300 hundred million out of the pockets of taxpayers. In the rest of California, that amount could well be in the $1 billion range.

What I call the "cloak of confidentiality" that Sacramento County CPS hides under has been directly addressed in Finding #2 of the Grand Jury investigation into Sac County CPS.  Although this has been addressed by the Grand Jury, it remains to be seen how it is addressed by CPS.  In finding #1 the Grand Jury addressed CPS "absence to accept responsibility and accountability". The Grand Jury recommended that CPS provide a "public report" of the progress that has been made.  Perhaps they'll address the fact that they hide under "confidentiality" that leads to questionable practices for which the public should be well aware of.  I seriously doubt the issue will ever be addressed by CPS. I also question whether another 10 years will go by w/o change until more children are hurt and more families are torn apart.  When it's in their best interest, they commonly say "its confidential" which to me is code for "uh-oh, I can't answer that, I don't have an explanation or justification for that". Just as quickly as they say it, they revoke when they have the need to publicly humiliate you with allegations that are mostly false. 

Below is finding #2 taken directly from the Grand Jury report:

Finding 2: A shield of privacy and secrecy that surrounds much of the operations of CPS is unwarranted. This lack of transparency serves to raise questions and leads to inaccurate conclusions being made regarding what takes place in CPS. The acknowledged need to protect the confidentiality of case information can be accomplished without adopting a “closed door” attitude.


Recommendation 2: Greater transparency of CPS operations must be exhibited on the part of CPS management. They should do more to aggressively open the doors of CPS activities to the eyes of the public, the County Board of Supervisors, non-profit organizations, K – 12 schools and universities, the Legislature, the medical community, and the media. Transparency does not prevent possible negative publicity, but does mean that questions can be asked and answered in an atmosphere of openness and honesty.