The state of Washington will pay six people a total of $11 million to settle claims they suffered horrible abuse as children at the hands of their state-appointed guardians. Alexander Gonzalez, Michelle Harris, Elizabeth Tapia and Aurora Tapia filed suit against the state last year. Rebecca Miranda and Anthony Winton joined the suit later. They [...]
Californians exonerated of child abuse charges remain on the state’s official list of offenders. It has been nine years since Craig and Wendy Humphries were arrested by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy and listed as child abusers on California’s state index, based on a false report filed by Craig Humphries’ teenage daughter. The charges [...]
www.washingtontimes.com Iowa child protective services have been removing children from their homes at a rate twice the national average. Roughly 50,000 of the state’s 3 million residents have been placed on a “child abuse registry”. There are millions of Americans on such child protection registries in at least 45 other states that reflect the same [...]
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In Iowa, it’s far too easy to get on the child abuse registry and far too difficult to get off of the registry. NYS OCFS had this problem too. NY’s solution was to shred 25,000 name clearing hearing petitions. See Story. Next session, Iowa lawmakers must finally tackle the state’s child abuse registry. They need [...]