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Hawaii family police agency sinks to misrepresentation and blackmail - and that’s just how they treat the State Legislature!

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The Hawaii State Capitol As regular readers of this blog know, many states are swiping money from foster children to reimburse themselves for giving those youth the “privilege” of living in foster care. It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending January 2, 2024

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● Want to see how easy it is for the foster care system to become the ultimate middle-class entitlement – step right up and take a poor person’s child for your very own? All over the country, states and localities have been swiping Social Security Survivor and Disability benefits to which some foster youth are entitled.

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A Pennsylvania case illustrates again why, for children, “best interests of the child” is among the most dangerous phrases in the “child welfare” lexicon

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But once home from the hospital, the children still are left in foster care – with foster parents who are eager to adopt. Presumably this also would rule out a large proportion of those providing kinship foster care, since they tend to be grandparents. For starters, there’s another caretaker in the home.

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What Does KVC Stand For?

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.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter foster care in the first place, we’ve helped states recruit and train thousands of relatives and foster families, ensuring children live in the context of a close-knit family.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 28, 2023

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. ● Also in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh’s highly-touted predictive analytics family policing algorithm reportedly is under investigation for bias against the disabled. Sarah Lorr’s new article about pervasive family police discrimination against disabled families, reviewed here (with a link to the full article) by Prof. Josh Gupta-Kagan.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 5, 2022

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Roberts, Kassandra Frederique, executive director of Drug Policy Alliance and Dr. Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor ; (the book the Allegheny County Department of Human Services hopes you will never read!)

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending May 21, 2023

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From the story: The Hackneys, who have developmental disabilities, are struggling to understand how taking their daughter to the hospital when she refused to eat could be seen as so neglectful that she’d need to be taken from her home. Justice Department is asking the same question. … Yes, they really do that.)