Ohio considers egregious violation of parental rights

[Balog]

http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/12/18/ohio-lawmakers-want-social-workers-to-have-veto-power-over-decision-to-homeschool/

Homeschool rights are up there with firearm rights in terms of "reasons I would emigrate." This is absolutely insane. CPS ignores multiple reports of abuse, kid dies. Rather than enforcing existing laws, lets add a new one that tramples the rights of the innocents. Sounds familiar eh?

[Sergeant Bob]

stripping parents of their constitutionally guaranteed right

That is their ultimate goal, as with everything else.

Relatives and neighbors say they reported the abuse to the children services board (CSB) on repeated occasion but were rebuffed. Widdersheim’s sister was one of them. “We called, multiple times we did,” she said, sobbing. “They wouldn’t do anything. They told us we were lying.”

So, the cure for a lame *expletive deleted*ss govt agency not doing their job is to place more restrictions on private citizens taking over for another lame *expletive deleted*ss govt agency (public screwls) not doing their job?

[Tallpine]

“We called, multiple times we did,” she said, sobbing. “They wouldn’t do anything. They told us we were lying.”

Sometimes people are crazy and making things up 

[Hawkmoon]

And sometimes the agencies charged with investigating reports of child abuse ignore the reports, or conduct perfunctory "investigations," or simply go out for coffee and fabricate their "reports" out of thin air.

[RoadKingLarry]

Sometimes people are crazyevil and making things up 

We never had any first hand experiences with CPS/DHS with our kids but we saw enough with some of our relations to convince me that at least in Oklahoma DHS (dept, of Hman Services) is staffed with some of the most corrupt, incompetent and purely evil I have ever had the misfortune to know.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Mostly issues with stupid ones here

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[T.O.M.]

Looks like this bill was DOA, and the State Senator saw the writing on the wall...

http://www.wkbn.com/news/local/cafaro-withdrawing-teddys-law


This isn't the first time some Ohio state senator or rep has introduced what can only be described as moronic legislation that would give social workers more and more power, in some cases even more authority than the courts.  I can't recall the bill number, but there was a bill introduced that would allow a social worker to do an emergency removal of a child from parental custody for up to five days without need for a court order or hearing.  Ohio law now requires a court order prior to removal, and there must be a hearing within 72 hours.  No offense to the good social workers, but I've seen plenty of bad ones in the last 19 years that make me darn nervous about that kind of authority...