Rastafarian woman wants removal from North Dakota county's child abuse registry

A practicing Rastafarian has filed a lawsuit against a North Dakota county social services agency to get her name off a child abuse registry.

Judge Todd Cresap heard arguments Tuesday in Shanika Lister's civil lawsuit against Ward County Social Services, the Minot Daily News reported.

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Child-welfare officials keep a list of people they say are a danger to kids. Even when they're not.

There are 81,000 names on an internal document at the Arizona Department of Child Safety.
These are people who, in theory, you don't want around children. 
The confidential list — known as the Central Registry — is intended to catalog people with proven reports of child maltreatment.
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Parents wrongly put on a child abuser list will get $4.1 million to settle their suit

The father and stepmother of a 15-year-old runaway girl who falsely accused them of child abuse are set to receive $4.1 million from the state and Los Angeles County to settle a lawsuit that contended their civil rights were violated when a sheriff's deputy placed their names on a list of child abusers.

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Another View: Reject short-sighted child abuse list bills

Another View: Reject short-sighted child abuse list bills

Michigan made a big mistake in adopting a broad sex offender registry, one that can't distinguish between a bona fide predator and a teenager who had consensual relations with his girlfriend. It should not compound that error by adopting a similar permanent list of those convicted of child abuse.

Public DCS Child Abuse Registry Raises Concern

Public DCS Child Abuse Registry Raises Concern

The Tennessee Department of Children's Services is now publicly posting the names of accused child abusers even if the person has not been convicted of a crime.

DCF list accused of violating due process

DCF list accused of violating due process

Vermont’s swelling child abuse registry — designed to protect the state’s children — denies some individuals the right to due process because of a lack of notice and the way claims of abuse are investigated, a Vermont lawyer claims.

Report: DCF burdened by ‘steep increase’ in abuse appeals

Report: DCF burdened by ‘steep increase’ in abuse appeals

The state’s beleaguered child welfare agency is facing an unmanageable backlog of appeals from caregivers accused of abuse and neglect that advocates say could leave at-risk kids languishing in the system and stall long-awaited adoptions for years.

Note: That's because they're full of shit and people are getting sick of it and want their names that were tarnished by lying assed baby-stealers cleared.

Report cites problems with DCF appeals process

Report cites problems with DCF appeals process

The appeals process at the state Department of Children and Families for people who are found to have committed child abuse or neglect is beset with a backlog of cases, according to a preliminary report from a consultant hired by the state to review the procedures.

DCF secret list rife with problems

DCF secret list rife with problems

Something as simple as a small cut on a child in your care can land you on Vermont’s secret child abuse substantiation list; and getting your name removed might just take a Vermont Supreme Court decision.

Child Abuse Register Ordered to Remove Father's Name

Child Abuse Register Ordered to Remove Father's Name

An appellate court has ordered removed from the state's Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment the name of an aspiring pediatrician who was reported for striking his 2-year-old son once on the buttock.

A click of a button could put you on child abuser list

A click of a button could put you on child abuser list

In Michigan no one is safe. If a Child Protective Services worker has "concern" that you have abused or neglected a child, your name could end up on the Michigan Central Registry, a database of 275,000 names.

Child Welfare Agency Settles Lawsuits

Child Welfare Agency Settles Lawsuits

Five employees who had their names added to a child abuse registry as a form of discipline by Connecticut's child welfare agency will be taken off the list, union officials told The Associated Press.

New Jersey mother fights for removal from abuse registry over prescribed methadone use during pregnancy

New Jersey mother fights for removal from abuse registry over prescribed methadone use during pregnancy

A mother in New Jersey is fighting to have her name removed from the child abuse register after she was found culpable of abuse and neglect of her unborn baby because she took methadone during pregnancy, even though the treatment was prescribed and supervised by a doctor.

Michigan Child Welfare Is About To Be Riddled With Lawsuits

Michigan Child Welfare Is About To Be Riddled With Lawsuits

For the first time in the history of Michigan, an individual can petition to be removed off the registry after 10 years.

GOP senator criticizes DCF over abuse registry removals

GOP senator criticizes DCF over abuse registry removals

A Republican state senator is criticizing the state Department of Children and Families’ decision to consider applications by people who have been placed on the state’s Child Abuse and Neglect Registry to be removed from the registry.

Note: The Republicans think they're doing God's work.  This idiot simply doesn't understand the consequences of when an innocent person gets put on the registry, and should shut up.

• (Journal Inquirer) Sen. McLachlan criticizes DCF over abuse registry removals

DCF change allows names removed from abuse registry

DCF change allows names removed from abuse registry

Controversy is brewing over a new Department of Children and Families policy that allows people listed on the Child Abuse and Neglect Registry a chance to get their names removed.

Central Registry of Abuse and Neglect database accused of ruining lives

Central Registry of Abuse and Neglect database accused of ruining lives

It’s a database with 275,000 names that’s supposed to help protect children.

But Michigan’s Central Registry of Abuse and Neglect has been described as a permanent blacklist, one that can ruin lives without giving those accused of child abuse or neglect a chance to challenge the findings of a Children’s Protective Services investigation before their names are added.

MICHIGAN CPS HAS GIGANTIC SECRET LIST OF PARENTS LABELED “CHILD ABUSERS” WITHOUT DUE PROCESS

MICHIGAN CPS HAS GIGANTIC SECRET LIST OF PARENTS LABELED “CHILD ABUSERS” WITHOUT DUE PROCESS

Hundreds of thousands of parents have been flagged as “child abusers” in a huge database maintained in secret by Michigan’s Child Protective Services (CPS) agency.   The names are entered into the database without due process, without a judicial hearing, without an opportunity for defense, without a conviction, and without even letting the individuals know they have been targeted.

Secret list: Having your name on this secret Michigan list of 275,000 people could cost you your job

Secret list: Having your name on this secret Michigan list of 275,000 people could cost you your job

There’s a secret list in the state of Michigan that can cost you your family or your job.  It’s called the Child Abuse/Neglect Central Registry, and for this secret list, it’s not a judge or a jury that can get you labeled a child abuser -- it’s the word of a state worker. 

Cleared of abuse, father sues to get off state list

Cleared of abuse, father sues to get off state list

The nightmare for Kenneth Lalley started when a state social worker showed up at his door on a late April 2012 night to take away his children, for whom he had sole custody.