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There is no one more passionate and involved in DCFS, CPS, Juvenile Dependency cases in California than Vincent W. Davis and his crew of dedicated and focused, like-thinking associate attorneys.
There are attorneys in CA who are willing to sue CPS and often they win their cases. I would like to know the name of the female lawyer who sued the welfare in Utah and won the case.
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors has paid out millions in legal settlements and attorney fees in the child welfare system.
According to the suit filed in San Diego County Superior Court on Wednesday, attorney Dan Gilleon requested dozens of documents connected to his client’s civil case — first on Aug. 19 and again on Sept. 6.
San Diego County has paid more than $8 million in settlements and legal fees for child welfare cases over the past 5 years. By Greg Moran.
He said this week that he was optimistic about the changes that are starting to take hold in the system, including more training for social workers, better data collection and a revised hotline system that gives closer attention to calls.
But the Manns’ case remained active on another issue: whether the exams themselves violated the constitutional rights of any parents or children who were subjected to them. In the fall of 2018, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled they were and the policy had “harmed families in Southern California for too long.” The U.S. Supreme Court declined in October to review that decision, clearing the way for the settlement approved Tuesday.
The mother, Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick, who lives in Seal Beach, claimed that CPS workers took her two young daughters in February 2000, and ‘intentionally misinformed the court’.
The County of Los Angeles settled a civil rights action brought by the grandparents of two minors for the warrantless removal of the children from their home in violation of the family’s constitutional rights to familial association free from unwarranted government interference.
We would cut off 90% CPS employees to save tax dollars for assistant poor family rather than let CPS do harm to our children of good parents. CPS uses their power to do harm to our kids such as to remove our kids from homes to terrify our kids in front of good parents and make good parents felt heart breaking because our kids being removed their home. CPS system is a devil system it should be changed and stopped immediately, not benefit for American family. Why do we let CPS’ take our tax money and do harm to our kids and destroy our feeling in front of our kids? How many tips is truth of child abuse receiving from CPS? If 1% or 2% truth, why let many CPS employees do stupid harm to our kids and our family? We should take CPS out of the system and finish them is the right way for Americans. CPS does physical and emotion abuses to our kids and to our family.
We encourage CPS system needs to be changed immediately because it does harm to our kids more than help our kids. They investigate our kids and parents even they received the bad tips. CPS is paid by tax dollars should be stopped it now. We knew lots of family got hard time because of CPS investigation and some kids removed from good parents, should we let CPS continues to harm to our kids and our family? We must do the right thing for our kids and stop CPS now.
Over 1,800 people from all 50 states have signed the White House petition asking the President to establish a Corruption Commission…. We need to keep shoving the corruption in the face of those who are corrupt and/or those who don’t do enough about the corruption. Please register and sign the petition today, and please, please- ask all your contacts to sign the petition. Many thanks….
Cps is bogus, unconstitutional, and is federally law, cps can do nothing without yr consent. I have been through this nightmare. Sign NOTHING!!!!! court
There need to be more lawsuits against CPS. Since some of their decisions are based on the mighty dollar, more lawsuits might motivate them to change! http://www.angelfire.com/film/4tyler
If you have an emergency Juvenile Dependency hearing with the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), or your County’s Child Protective Services (CPS) agency, attorney Vincent W. Davis & Associates will prepare the necessary legal paperwork and be ready to help you on very short notice. Vincent or one of his associate attorneys are in multiple Juvenile Dependency Courts from san Diego to Santa Barbara on a daily basis. Remember, there are very strict time limits that you must meet in order to take advantage of all legal opportunities for regaining custody of your child/children.
Mr. Davis acted as both trial and appellate counsel in the published cases of: Marriage of David and Martha M., (2006) 140 Cal.App.4th 96 and Papakosmas v. Papakosmas, (2007) 483 F.3d 617.
Defeat? Sorry, but yes, that is the truth of being nothing more than a number in the bureaucracy of the very specialized Juvenile Dependency Courts! Unfortunately, once taken, you might not see your kids returned in a full year — or ever .
Contra Costa County Counsel Patricia Lowe and social worker Edyth Williams have been exposed in their attempt to exert undue influence on the county approved doctor who was appointed to this case. In doing so, they hoped to reverse the findings in reports where he wrote glowing assessments of the mother of the child in question. This doctor was appointed by the county and we can presume that it was based on his medical credentials. To our knowledge, neither Ms. Lowe nor Ms. Williams, have any medical qualifications. Yet Ms. Williams saw fit to privately contact the doctor via telephone so that he could “get her input”. Ms. Lowe had full knowledge of this and admitted in an email that Ms. Williams had contacted the doctor in order that he would “understand the court’s perspective/perception”. She further admitted to attempting to convince the mother’s lawyer to contact the doctor for the purpose of sharing the court’s opinion with the doctor.
Children faced “incredible pain and suffering” when a Madera County social worker intentionally discarded hundreds of child abuse reports last year, according to government emails uncovered in a Fresno Bee investigation.
Officers of the court in Contra Costa County are violating Federal Law in attempting to adversely influence the findings of a prominent doctor in a case involving a child with special needs. The County receives federal funding every time a child is seized and retained and they are further incentivized in cases of children with special needs. Could this be why they are so resistant to returning special needs children to their families?
Plaintiffs believe that the proceedings authorized under Section 300 of California’s Welfare and Institutions Code are criminal in nature, in that they can result in the loss of family unity, a well-recognized fundamental constitutional right.
The actions of Lowe and Williams are illegal in many respects. Under HIPAA legislation it is unlawful for the doctor to turn over the patient’s confidential data to a third party without the consent of the patient. HIPAA rules are the cornerstone of American privacy legislation and under Federal Law violations and are punishable with financial penalties and imprisonment. As Ms. Lowe is a licensed attorney, her deliberate violations constitute an even more serious breach of HIPAA Law.