08-11-2012, 05:18 PM
I have a request to the Big Island residents to help me amend the Child Protective Act to prevent unlawful and unreasonable removal of children from families and placed into foster care in Hawaii.
This kind of atrocity happens all over the country because parents are not aware of the application of the 4th Amendment right to be secure in their homes when CPS comes calling based simply upon
a child abuse hotline report that is too often a false allegation. If you have not, or don’t know anyone who has been subjected to a sudden removal of a child to foster care that results in a complicated legal nightmare, I would implore you to take my word for the fact that this happens in communities all over the country. Many times, the children are never returned simply because the parents are not informed of their rights and are coerced into signing away their rights. I have a packet of information and evidence to show legislators why a change in the existing statutes needs to tighten the liberties that are now taken by child welfare services to remove children from their parents based upon information that does not qualify for a warrant. Child removal IS child abuse unless the situation is a dire emergency for the well-being of the child. The current law does not guarantee that.
If you are willing to give this information to your legislator, email me and I’ll send it to you.
This kind of atrocity happens all over the country because parents are not aware of the application of the 4th Amendment right to be secure in their homes when CPS comes calling based simply upon
a child abuse hotline report that is too often a false allegation. If you have not, or don’t know anyone who has been subjected to a sudden removal of a child to foster care that results in a complicated legal nightmare, I would implore you to take my word for the fact that this happens in communities all over the country. Many times, the children are never returned simply because the parents are not informed of their rights and are coerced into signing away their rights. I have a packet of information and evidence to show legislators why a change in the existing statutes needs to tighten the liberties that are now taken by child welfare services to remove children from their parents based upon information that does not qualify for a warrant. Child removal IS child abuse unless the situation is a dire emergency for the well-being of the child. The current law does not guarantee that.
If you are willing to give this information to your legislator, email me and I’ll send it to you.