New DCF leader pledges to let Kansans ‘hear the rest of the story’ on child deaths

The new leader of Kansas’ child welfare system said Monday that her administration will propose a legislative change so more information is released after a child’s death or serious injury.

Gina Meier-Hummel, secretary of the Department for Children and Families, said her administration is working with attorneys on what wording needs to change in the current law to allow for additional transparency.

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Manitoba child welfare system hiding behind privacy law: Nepinak

Manitoba child welfare system hiding behind privacy law: Nepinak

The head of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs says the provincial child welfare system is using privacy laws to avoid dealing with families who want to reunite.

The Top 5: Most Secretive Child Welfare System's in the United States

So this past Sunday, I took sort of a snap shot of the US Child Welfare Systems, and what they had been up to or what the people have been concerned with over the last few months.  Based on the information I collected in my notebook, I have uncovered certain trends.  The first of those trends I wrote about on this past Sunday.  Not everybody agrees with my findings, but they are subject to change at any time and are only a reflection of the most recent information.

Today I would like to bring your attention to another trend I noticed in the data I collected.  That would be the opposite extreme, the quiet or more secretive states.  All Child Welfare systems should have some level of transparency so that the public knows what's going on.  Many of these systems however, have systematically been able to avoid public scrutiny for years.  Some more than others and the Top 5 will be listed here now.


Number 5: Idaho

We haven't actually heard very much from this state as of late and when we do it's usually an opinion piece or somebody getting arrested for abusing a foster child.  I'm not saying that this state doesn't have it's share of problems, just that they are really good at sweeping them under the rug.

Number 4: North Dakota

North Dakota was having some issues with child welfare on an Indian reservation and turnover rates a couple years back but that has faded into the past.  We haven't heard much from them since.  

Number 3: Delaware

Because I'm running a news blog, I can only work with what CPS gives me.  I try to give every state or country the opportunity to make this blog with their fraud, failures and fuck-ups and I do so as fairly as I can.  Delaware comes in at Number 3 because in the last 5 years, there has been nothing to come out of that state in terms of news.  Nothing.  With the exception of a ban on spanking back in 2012, a case where a CPS Agent said, give me sex or I'll take your kid, and a couple of foster care abuse cases, we wouldn't know the states child welfare system even exists.

Number 2: New Hampshire

New Hampshire could be compared to a trap door spider, waiting for his prey or a cop hiding on a dark road waiting for a speeder to go buy.  The New Hampshire child welfare system is a state of pure evil that hides in the shadows and pounces on it's victims leaving a trail of heartbreak and anger.  Thanks to the work of Unhappy Grammy we know this, but you can forget about staying informed via any major news paper.

And the Number 1 most secretive child welfare system in the country is...

Number 1: Wyoming 

Wyoming's CPS has flown under the radar for as long as I've been at this.  Making Legally Kidnapped a whopping 17 times, since the beginning, the state keeps it's secrets well.

The First Amendment of the Constitution is put into place so that the government would be subject to checks and balances.  The people need to know.  If they aren't aware of what a mess Child Welfare in the United States really is then the agencies will continue to get away with it for a good long time.

Vt. Divided Over Confidentiality in Child Abuse Cases

Vt. Divided Over Confidentiality in Child Abuse Cases

Attorney General Bill Sorrell said that limiting confidentiality around family court could improve transparency and accountability in the child protection system, but others are not convinced.

Changes may ease secrecy in child abuse cases

Changes may ease secrecy in child abuse cases

The special legislative Committee on Child Protection agreed to add several proposals for lawmakers to consider in January in an ongoing effort to boost the state’s child protection laws after the deaths of two toddlers this year.

Top judge’s war on secret courts: Family hearings must be exposed to ‘glare of publicity’

Top judge’s war on secret courts: Family hearings must be exposed to ‘glare of publicity’

One of Britain’s most senior judges vowed yesterday to expose family courts to ‘the glare of publicity’ after decades of obsessive secrecy.

Social workers may be targeted online following Munby video footage ruling

Social workers may be targeted online following Munby video footage ruling

The risk of aggrieved parents posting defamatory material will only increase following Lord Justice Munby's decision

Note: Not to state the blatantly obvious or anything, but these social workers are stealing children.  That pisses people off.  Parents are starting to speak out against the practice.  The judge just gave them permission to do so.  That gives everybody else the opportunity to see the kind of crap that these social workers are pulling and contrast that with all the bullshit the media has been telling them over the years.  

It's interesting that social workers don't like it.  They can say it's for the child's privacy all they want, but I don't buy that for a minute.  The only reason social workers would be upset by such a decision is because they know what they did.   If I were them, I'd be scared of people finding out too.

Gove: 'Absurd' secrecy left care children at mercy of paedophiles

Gove: 'Absurd' secrecy left care children at mercy of paedophiles

Some of Britain’s most vulnerable young people have effectively been handed over to paedophile gangs because of “absurd” and “bewildering” secrecy rules surrounding children’s homes, Michael Gove warns on Friday.

Could this be the end of secrecy in 'child protection’?

Could this be the end of secrecy in 'child protection’?

Sir James Munby, an unusually humane and intelligent judge, is bent on rolling back the blanket of secrecy that has concealed many horror stories from public view

Vietnam media violate child’s right to privacy in reporting abuse: experts

Vietnam media violate child’s right to privacy in reporting abuse: experts

Many Vietnamese newspapers “rudely” violate children’s right to privacy when reporting cases in which they are victims of domestic violence and rape, experts say.

Social workers say releasing full details of child-abuse deaths would harm families

Social workers say releasing full details of child-abuse deaths would harm families

Child-protection workers told a Franklin Circuit Court judge Tuesday they feared people would not report child abuse and children would be psychologically scarred if uncensored social-worker case files were released to the public.

New family court guidelines won’t improve a rotten system for children!

New family court guidelines won’t improve a rotten system for children!

Excitable coverage was given last week to new draft guidelines issued by Sir James Munby, the judge in charge of our family courts, which it was claimed would be a groundbreaking move towards lifting the blanket of secrecy that has allowed our “child protection” system to become such a national scandal.

Editorial: Government must commit to openness in preventing harm in foster care

Editorial: Government must commit to openness in preventing harm in foster care

The latest report from Alberta's department of Human Services contains deeply disturbing statistics about the fate of children in care during the 2012-2013 year.

NC DHHS head: Transparency can be “dangerous”

NC DHHS head: Transparency can be “dangerous”

Here’s video on the unusual tangent N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Aldona Wos went on earlier this week in which she called government transparency “dangerous” during a press conference about contracting out the state’s Medicaid services.

State Shuts Off Child Abuse Info

State Shuts Off Child Abuse Info


A joint newspaper investigation shows the Missouri Department of Social Services’ practice of releasing information after the deaths or near deaths of children has come to a sudden and unexplained end.

Missouri falls silent in children’s deaths, declining to release records

Missouri falls silent in children’s deaths, declining to release records


Thirteen years ago, the state of Missouri failed to save the lives of two Kansas City boys whose mother was torturing and slowly starving them.

Tenn. fights transparency for child welfare agency

Tenn. fights transparency for child welfare agency

Note: FYI: Keeping everything secret is how they get away with what they do.  Confidentiality is a tool used to help cover their tracks.  It is in the best interest of those involved, from the low life CPS Agent, all the way to the highest profiting System Suck.

Therefore it should come as no surprise that they want to keep everything secret.


DCS refuses to divulge anything but bare details about the deaths, such as the child's age, gender and home county. It won't release what actions it took in the cases. DCS even keeps the names of the children who died secret.

Foster care: Why the debate over open courts matters

Foster care: Why the debate over open courts matters

An underreported debate among foster care advocates and court watchdogs has been quietly brewing across the country. At issue: whether courts that handle foster care cases should be open to the press.

Time to draw back the curtain on child welfare system

Time to draw back the curtain on child welfare system

in Maryland, the courts, documents, records and lips of everyone who has any say in the lives of nearly 7,000 children who have been taken from their homes are sealed.

California falling behind in child abuse death disclosure

California falling behind in child abuse death disclosure


Imagine a 7-year-old child, starved by a parent, shrinking from 60 to 50 to 25 pounds before dying, despite periodic visits by local social workers. Imagine a child dying from a potentially curable disease whose family is withholding treatment and who is known to local officials. Imagine a child who has been repeatedly and severely beaten, yet remains under the roof of a stepfather with a long record of violent assault.