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It is part of a day-long blitz of several Ontario municipalities calling for equal rights for both parents in divorce and separation proceedings. All Equal Parenting supporters are asked to join them at Broadway and John at 7: Children and adults will receive bracelets promoting truth, justice and equality, temporary tattoos with a message about M and the opportunity to have their picture taken with some of our now famous Everyday Superheroes and the F4J Barney Mobile.

Getting Away with Murder August 29, permalink The press has discovered that four children died in Arkansas foster care this year, but DHS refuses to provide details, shielding themselves behind a law protecting the confidentiality of children.

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In any other situation a person concealing evidence of a death would be charged as an accessory after the fact, but not a bureaucrat. Even at that, Arkansas is ahead of Ontario, where we have nothing better than statistical estimates of the number of children dying in foster care.

Our list of foster deaths includes only one in Arkansas during the last year. Keyundra Smith, 22 months old, died in Eudora Arkansas on May 28,attributed to the dubious shaken baby syndrome. Foster mom Eleisha Sykes has been accused. But DHS has refused to release information about the nature of the deaths except to say that two of them are under investigation as maltreatment cases.

Even after the State Police made an arrest in one of those cases on Aug. Which raises the questions: When is DHS justified in withholding information about foster-child deaths?

What sort of information should it be able to conceal? Is the public's need to know about the circumstances of the deaths outweighed by DHS's need to complete an investigation before putting details out in the open?

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The Times asked DHS for basic information about the deaths: What caused each child to die? What distinguishes a case that apparently involves child maltreatment from one that doesn't?

DHS said it can answer none of these questions. Past court rulings have drawn a line between information that can be considered part of an investigation and that which must be public record. Lawyers for DHS have denied that the case is precedent for its own child maltreatment investigations.

Though the results of investigations may be revealed if they are determined to be true, the law makes it illegal to disclose unsubstantiated accusations of child abuse.

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DHS lawyers argue that any information released about an allegation under investigation may violate that provision. Though it would be an uphill battle, said Rick Peltz, a professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Bowen School of Law who has written on the FOIA, the nondisclosure law might be challenged in court by arguing that information about child maltreatment cases analogous to that contained in a police report should be publicly available.

But Peltz doesn't think the law as currently written allows even basic information to come to light. Jennifer Ferguson, deputy director of the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, said that, while AACF doesn't deal with individual cases, it believes specific details about the deaths should be made available as quickly as possible.

She said she felt DHS' refusal to provide information suggests that the agency is covering something up. Policy Change in Texas August 29, permalink A lawsuit resulting from the seizure of children from Gary and Melissa Gates in has produced purported policy change in Texas.

Now children will get a court hearing before child removal, except in emergencies. We are skeptical, because that has been the policy all along. Social workers nullified the policy by always checking the emergency box on the form. Will this announcement really change things?

The new standards, lauded by parental rights advocates and decried by prosecutors, arose out of a ruling late last month by a three-judge panel of the U.

The court found that state and local officials who removed the children during a child abuse investigation may have acted improperly but were protected by government immunity.NFPCAR is concerned with the problem of child abuse and neglect allegations made against All families, relatives and care takers throughout the country.

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Child Abduction: A Theory of Criminal Behavior On July 31, the lifeless body of 7-year-old Megan Kanka was found in a localNew Jerseypark (Hennessey, ). She had been abducted, murdered, and left in a weeded area; a parent’s worst nightmare. Bride kidnapping, also known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, is a practice in which a man abducts the woman he wishes to marry.

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