Author: Robert Latham
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Florida Senate unanimously passes lawyers for disabled children bill
This is phenomenal news. I’ll post more about it later. CS/CS/HB 561, 2nd Eng. (2014) Attorneys for Dependent Children with Special Needs http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2014/0561 SENATE – Read 3rd time SENATE – CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0
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Mike Carroll, new DCF Secretary, speaking at National QPI Conference in 2012
“If you’re in the business of child welfare and you’re not mission driven, this thing doesn’t work.”
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Florida House passes bill authorizing attorneys for special needs children
This is a first in Florida. The corresponding Senate bill just cleared Appropriations. CS/CS/HB 561, 1st Eng. (2014) Attorneys For Dependent Children with Special Needs http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2014/0561 HOUSE – Read 3rd time HOUSE – Amendment(s) adopted HOUSE – CS passed as amended; YEAS 118 NAYS 0
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Why we need many voices in the law
Let’s take a moment: And race matters for reasons that really are only skin deep, that cannot be discussed any other way, and that cannot be wished away. Race matters to a young man’s view of society when he spends his teenage years watching others tense up as he passes, no matter the neighborhood where he grew…
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Second DCA rules against DCF on imminent risk of harm. Was DCF being strategic at the expense of future cases?
Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there. —Anton Chekhov Let’s continue our look at legal…
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Do not revictimize human trafficking victims in residential facilities
When discussing whether to put victims of child trafficking in lock-down facilities, let’s not forget this: Teens Tied Down and Shot Up With Drugs at Pembroke Pines Facility. And this: Video Shows Pembroke Pines Cop Punching Mentally Ill Girl. And all of these: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Kids-choked-stripped-beaten-at-Texas-treatment-1700591.php http://myfox8.com/2014/03/24/alleged-child-abuse-at-omega-treatment-center-in-greensboro-conditions-inhumane/ http://www.bloomberg.com/video/finr-patient-allegedly-abused-by-staff-members-ZKkfZvi4TJOgw9LedauA4g.html Those may be extreme cases, but the day-to-day workings of…