Del Norte County Department Of Health And Social Services, Children's Protection Services, CPS, California Repeatedly violated various rights and committed state and federal crimes against our family Crescent City California

I have read the reports regarding the actions of CPS in Del Norte County, CA and am currently assisting my daughter in a long battle with the same individuals in the same CPS office.  I need any information anyone can provide about their own situation.  We have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Del Norte County for their actions and need to bolster our allegtiions by showing that CPS in Del Norte County has engaged in this kind of corrupt activity over time and that our situation is not unique.  Please contact the attorney who is representing us, Tom Peterson at Black, Chapman, Webber and Stevens (541) 772-9850.  Mention the federal civil rights case filed against Del Norte County by Mr. Peterson.  Thank You!

To the poster that said this: "Violence is a learned behavior...you are responsible as a parent...obviously your child is not safe with you"
What makes you think her daughter learned it from the OP? Children are hard to raise nowadays. They get to be teenagers and want to hang out with their friends, but their firends do bad things. How do you know this? How do you tell your child they can't hang out with these people, but you still want to give them their freedom to make their own mistakes. Doing the right thing is a learned behavior too. Anymore, it's a lose lose situation for parents anyway. You tell your teenager they can't go out somewhere, they sneak out anyway. You tell them they can go but have a curfew, they stay out later. I know, I was one of them. I would stay out for days at a time and my parents would never know where I was. Ya know how you tell your kids that if you're ever stranded somewhere and need a ride or have been drinking and need a ride that you can call them and they'll pick you up, no questions asked? Yeah, I abused that privledge. I never did drugs or tried to kill myself, but I did hit my mother once. Then at 15 I got pregnant. My world crashed down around me. At that point, my mother was my best friend. I expected her to kick me out and never speak to me again. She didn't. She came to every appointment with me and even came to help pick out my daughters new parents. I did put her up for adoption. I realized that my parents did teach me well and I abused their trust. I told my mother that she had already raised 3 children and she didn't need to be raising her grandchildren too. I saw myself living as trailor trash if I had kept her and I don't regret giving her up. It was the best thing I could do for her and myself. I graduated highschool and am about to graduate with a BS degree in Business. She is 10 now and doing great. I had an open priovate adoption which allowed for me to keep in contact. I have another child now who's almost 7 and he's a perfect angel. Probably because I wasn't afraid to spank or embarrass him in public. I've always told my son that if he wants to raise his hand to me in anger, ever, that he better be prepaired to take the beating he'll get. I have taught my son how to fight with honor and respect. he knows the difference between self defense and fighting just to fight. I honestly think the OP should have beaten her daughter more often and what the hell is up with Granny? The daughter needs to stop hanging out with her grandmother.

yup, it is tiring, isn't it. FIghting aganist the conspiracy of peopel who have been given god like privledges and are abve the law because the law says they can do anything they want so that the legalized child theft rink stays in business. The biggest cahs cow on the market and their product is stealing human lives.

Amazing isn't it. If only there was an organization that was not affraid to get our children back and that could clear family names of truck loads of made up crap by DSS.

We send our troops over seasees to fight for foreign families freedom. How does that sound when our gov endoreses child theft rinks through DSS in the US, no freedom here!!

a men cps in georgia is just if not worse as bad
we will pray for u & situation
weve have a story u wouldnot believe

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As a very competent and committed CPS social worker, I have dealt with plenty of parents like yourself. You are in need of serious intervention!! You need to accept responsibility for the position you have put yourself and your child in. Violence is a learned behavior...you are responsible as a parent...obviously your child is not safe with you...can't you see that??? Kids Come FIRST....you need to have empathy for your child and you have to be willing to change and be less defensive. That is the ONLY way you will get your child back....you are wasting your time doing anything other than what I have stated above...if you only put as much effort into personal growth and change as you have trying to FIGHT the system, you would most likely already have her back. The State DOES NOT want your child....that is not the goal...you should both be working on the same end result...reunification!!!

Gary Blatnk or Blahnik, I'm not sure of the spelling, but how many of these guys can there be working for CPS in California? Check and see if he's from San Luis Obispo County. He left due to some sort of scandal. I know in my case, he allowed my son to be placed in a home where the foster parent let my son leave the home and run wild for three days while he lied to me and said he was at a ballgame. At the same time he was marking his meds (ritalin) as being given when they obviously weren't. Federal offense.

But duh...it got sort of got swept under the rug. Maybe the sheriff got wind of it and dug it up again. Guess who got the @#$% end of the stick...moi.

They did have to send my son back home though. Just as well, he was bored with his little foster escapade and he had worn out his welcome.

Check into the archives of our local New Times and Telegraph Tribune. The head of CPS at the time got busted for shoplifting. It was years ago, but it goes to show you the metal they are made of: Junk tin.

My daughter has a mental disability that makes it hard for her to verbally communicate with others. So when she made an off-the-cuff remark at school one day, I had to deal with Sacramento County CPS. I had a little advance warning, so I did some research...

Firstly, most CPS agencies are "Black Boxes". Nobody knows what happens in them. We just see what goes in and what comes out.

Secondly, the rate of injury and death due to abuse in foster homes is significantly higher that in the population as a whole. This is also true for sexual abuse.

Third, CPS agencies get a free pass on criticism because "they're doing it to protect the children."

You need to have some factoids ready to undercut the workers smug sense that they fight for children. Tell them the statistics. Educate them to the evils that the system perpetrates in the name of good.

Finally, don't sign anything! Don't agree to anything! Make them prove their case based on what they have. Cooperation=Surrender. In my case they wanted me to take a drug test once a day for 120 days. I agreed to one, right then. They pushed for the daily testing, I told them to do their worst because I was not going to cooperate anymore, you can leave now thank you very much. I never heard from them again.

I am a mother of six. Unfortunately, CPS especially in California feels they are God when it comes to protecting the actual 3% of truely abused children. Many families fall victim to their assumption of how a child should be diciplined. Interestling enough they do not. Now isn't that funny. I Turned the tables in my family as my kids were and are growing up oldest is 19 and 1/2. My kids were raised to fear CPS rather then me. I told them CPS would take them from me and I would not fight to get them back if they ever said that I abused them. Then I confirmed that with a back up and if you call them and lie I will beat the crap out of you and make it worth my while prior to my arrival.

This has resulted in them never calling and one lie to them on one occasion. I had to fire an employee and his wife threatened me on the phone while I was working. She stated that she was going to get me back. Low and behold CPS at my door in two days. I had a habit of grabbing my sons ear to get his attention when he was out of control.I never spanked in public. The ear was to get his attention and that the bahavior was unacceptable. She told this to CPS. CPS told me that that was abuse. Give me a break. I showed my kids shows, talk shows, and movies of abuse. I told my son to lie to CPS to protect the parental control I had. He was about 7 years old and OMG a stinker to say the least.

However, he did lie. He is now an adult and we laugh about it. I have moved into the state of Nevada and the rules are much different here. They do not want to deal with undicilined teenagers and therefore allow some pretty major parental control including, locing your children in their room, spanking, and CPS allowes bruises all over kids bodies and does nothing. I have pictures of an abused child here and CPS returned the child right back in the home. This is a extreme, but I have found the laws that protect our rights to dicipline unfortunately also place other children in danger 3% to be exact. The way I raised my children could be considered extreme or abusing, but I will tell you what my kids listen and they for the most part obey and they too are teaching their children that CPS is very horrible and will take them from the very thing they love so much and watch your children avoid them like the plague.


My next suggestion is to get an attorney. That attorney will be able to win your case against the state. make sure you find a great civil attorney well informed of the CPS practises. At the very leaset get a consultation, usually these are free.On the other hand if it was my child I'd would walk away and never ever look back. Let them have her. She will crawl back eventually and you will have the great oppertunity at that time to tell her she is on her own, she might shock you and apologize and tell you she screwed up, but it will be up to you how you want to enter back into a relationship with her if at all. Good Luck

Susan, if DHS can convince you to relinquish your parenting rights, they can adopt your daughter to someone of their choice.

When she is adopted, California DHS will be given $10,000 BONUS MONEY because your daughter is more than twelve years old. And, if she is considered handicapped in any way, they'll get an additional $6,000 in Bonus Money.

It does absolutely NO good to ask DHS for help. They WILL NOT help you or anyone else.. They only help themselves.

They hire contractors to counsel parents but they will NOT tell you about them. You'll have to find those workshops on your own. Usually local guidance centers know how to locate the classes. If the two of you could have attended an Anger Management Course, this would likely not have happened. The grandmother probably need to attend, too.

Susan, in October 2005, DHS agencies were paid more than $17 TRILLION dollars of Bonus Money for adopting children in 2004. They'll get $16,000 for adopting your daughter. They'll get that money one year after she is adopted. The adoptive parents will get Adoption Incentives of $1,000-2,000 Per Month until she is eighteen or twenty-two if she's still in school.

IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY. Read the Adoptions and Safe Families Act of 1997. The BONUS MONEY comes, unlimited, from our Social Security Fund. That's why reports are out that our Social Security Fund will be broke by 2008. The ASFA is in effect through 2008.

DHS will do nothing to help you with your daughter because it would mean they would not get the Bonus Money. Even if your daughter and you were to attend Anger Management Classes in a local center, those classes will NOT be acceptable to DHS. It's a NO WIN with DHS!

Hopefully your daughter will realize what has happened to her growing up years when she has children of her own. When she finds out that DHS has adopted her (sold her) for Bonus Money, it may upset her. The adoptive parents bought her for the money they'll get each month!

Susan, if DHS can convince you to relinquish your parenting rights, they can adopt your daughter to someone of their choice.

When she is adopted, California DHS will be given $10,000 BONUS MONEY because your daughter is more than twelve years old. And, if she is considered handicapped in any way, they'll get an additional $6,000 in Bonus Money.

It does absolutely NO good to ask DHS for help. They WILL NOT help you or anyone else.. They only help themselves.

They hire contractors to counsel parents but they will NOT tell you about them. You'll have to find those workshops on your own. Usually local guidance centers know how to locate the classes. If the two of you could have attended an Anger Management Course, this would likely not have happened. The grandmother probably need to attend, too.

Susan, in October 2005, DHS agencies were paid more than $17 TRILLION dollars of Bonus Money for adopting children in 2004. They'll get $16,000 for adopting your daughter. They'll get that money one year after she is adopted. The adoptive parents will get Adoption Incentives of $1,000-2,000 Per Month until she is eighteen or twenty-two if she's still in school.

IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY. Read the Adoptions and Safe Families Act of 1997. The BONUS MONEY comes, unlimited, from our Social Security Fund. That's why reports are out that our Social Security Fund will be broke by 2008. The ASFA is in effect through 2008.

DHS will do nothing to help you with your daughter because it would mean they would not get the Bonus Money. Even if your daughter and you were to attend Anger Management Classes in a local center, those classes will NOT be acceptable to DHS. It's a NO WIN with DHS!

Hopefully your daughter will realize what has happened to her growing up years when she has children of her own. When she finds out that DHS has adopted her (sold her) for Bonus Money, it may upset her. The adoptive parents bought her for the money they'll get each month!

Susan, if DHS can convince you to relinquish your parenting rights, they can adopt your daughter to someone of their choice.

When she is adopted, California DHS will be given $10,000 BONUS MONEY because your daughter is more than twelve years old. And, if she is considered handicapped in any way, they'll get an additional $6,000 in Bonus Money.

It does absolutely NO good to ask DHS for help. They WILL NOT help you or anyone else.. They only help themselves.

They hire contractors to counsel parents but they will NOT tell you about them. You'll have to find those workshops on your own. Usually local guidance centers know how to locate the classes. If the two of you could have attended an Anger Management Course, this would likely not have happened. The grandmother probably need to attend, too.

Susan, in October 2005, DHS agencies were paid more than $17 TRILLION dollars of Bonus Money for adopting children in 2004. They'll get $16,000 for adopting your daughter. They'll get that money one year after she is adopted. The adoptive parents will get Adoption Incentives of $1,000-2,000 Per Month until she is eighteen or twenty-two if she's still in school.

IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY. Read the Adoptions and Safe Families Act of 1997. The BONUS MONEY comes, unlimited, from our Social Security Fund. That's why reports are out that our Social Security Fund will be broke by 2008. The ASFA is in effect through 2008.

DHS will do nothing to help you with your daughter because it would mean they would not get the Bonus Money. Even if your daughter and you were to attend Anger Management Classes in a local center, those classes will NOT be acceptable to DHS. It's a NO WIN with DHS!

Hopefully your daughter will realize what has happened to her growing up years when she has children of her own. When she finds out that DHS has adopted her (sold her) for Bonus Money, it may upset her. The adoptive parents bought her for the money they'll get each month!

Susan, if DHS can convince you to relinquish your parenting rights, they can adopt your daughter to someone of their choice.

When she is adopted, California DHS will be given $10,000 BONUS MONEY because your daughter is more than twelve years old. And, if she is considered handicapped in any way, they'll get an additional $6,000 in Bonus Money.

It does absolutely NO good to ask DHS for help. They WILL NOT help you or anyone else.. They only help themselves.

They hire contractors to counsel parents but they will NOT tell you about them. You'll have to find those workshops on your own. Usually local guidance centers know how to locate the classes. If the two of you could have attended an Anger Management Course, this would likely not have happened. The grandmother probably need to attend, too.

Susan, in October 2005, DHS agencies were paid more than $17 TRILLION dollars of Bonus Money for adopting children in 2004. They'll get $16,000 for adopting your daughter. They'll get that money one year after she is adopted. The adoptive parents will get Adoption Incentives of $1,000-2,000 Per Month until she is eighteen or twenty-two if she's still in school.

IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY. Read the Adoptions and Safe Families Act of 1997. The BONUS MONEY comes, unlimited, from our Social Security Fund. That's why reports are out that our Social Security Fund will be broke by 2008. The ASFA is in effect through 2008.

DHS will do nothing to help you with your daughter because it would mean they would not get the Bonus Money. Even if your daughter and you were to attend Anger Management Classes in a local center, those classes will NOT be acceptable to DHS. It's a NO WIN with DHS!

Hopefully your daughter will realize what has happened to her growing up years when she has children of her own. When she finds out that DHS has adopted her (sold her) for Bonus Money, it may upset her. The adoptive parents bought her for the money they'll get each month!