Your Children Are Not Safe In Public Schools

     My grandchildren have been under assault by two school teachers at Bellaire Elementary School in Killeen and one neighbor who lives behind us. The two teachers, in concert with the principle of that school have conspired together to file charge after charge against us for all manner of abuse, and publicly choose which of the children they'd like to adopt. We have inside information on this and i can assure you it is true! On one occasion the neighbor called the fire department, EMS, police and CPS to come and draw weapons because she "thought" the children were in "imminent danger." To date more than thirty-five charges have been leveled against us, all of which have been unfounded! 

     Teachers are protected by the mandatory reporting system in place. The last charge was that one of the twins had a "suspicious" bruise on his jaw. The two teachers and the principle did at that time deliberately circumspect the nursing staff at the school and when said child was taken to the hospital it was discovered that he had strep! As i have pointed out the early symptoms of Ebola and Strep are remarkably the same and so by playing doctor these people put every child in the school in danger!  The teachers had to actually walk by the clinic in order to go to the office, never letting the nurses see the child. I'm told that all they have to do is get other teachers to agree that they would have done the same thing, and they are then immune to prosecution. 

     Your public school system is no longer for education. It is a gathering system for procuring children for teachers wishing to destroy your family. Your children are not safe in a public school! This is my plea to all persons living in the Bellaire School District in Killeen to be aware of the intent of these people. Do not allow your children to be questioned by teachers. My grand children have been grilled daily, as the teachers gather "evidence" for their further adventures in family wrecking. 

     I demand that these teachers, and said principle be removed from contact with any children, and request the District Attorney of Bell County Texas look into charges against the same. While they are "immune", to create a false case and involve the CPS is a state jail felony. Furthermore, to conspire to commit a criminal act is conspiracy, and involvement in organized crime. I will not put this down, and I will not let criminals prey on school children. 

Playing Doctor

     Well, I was blessed by a visit from the CPS this week. That's where I've been, by the way, for all those  of you with inquiring minds who thought I had died. That was Spock that died, I'm fine. Anyway, one of the twins took a swing at the other twin and the school went into full NSA overdrive. Rather than taking the five year old to the clinic the teacher secreted the kid in some remote portion of the school house and called the CPS. We were hit at two-thirty in the morning, I Crappith thee NOT! 

     "Ding Dong," the doorbell went and since we never answer the door at that time of the morning, I simply waited until the patrol car pulled away and called the police station whereupon I was informed that the caller was a "well check" requested by the CPS. (This is my surprised face!) Naturally, the whole house was up by that time, and having had many precious encounters with the department before, the kids were riled up pretty good. 

     Now, for the novice out there let me explain how this works. First off public schools are revolving doors for CPS "product." Teachers pick a child they want, wait for a scratch, or bruise, and call the ever vigilant hot line to place their order, I mean report an injury. There is no such thing as a common sense factor in this. If said child bumped his butt on the school slide and got a bruise, full investigation up to and including drug testing of parents, and questions about pedophilia. In this case I was alone at the house the next evening when they showed up. Kinda like I planned this, huh? Actually I had an evil scheme . You see, the last time we went through this they sent this hot little blonde out ALONE, so, you see? Well, this time let's just say it was NOT a hot little blonde, and she brought Evander Holyfield with her! Curses! Foiled again! 

     I was polite and broke all my own rules letting the man and woman right in. I can say they were honest about the issue. Slight bruise on a twin's chin, and the other twin had confessed. You'd think the whole thing would end right there. Au Contraire. Five kids, five WHITE kids with blue eyes, all eight and under, that's a lot of money on the table there. We had to take pictures, LOTS of pictures. Fortunately everything was in order. I was expecting a young lady so the house was perfect. 

     I'll never get used to how untrained CPS workers are. They show up at a house, after dark, to possibly take children away from the family, get invited in by an old man who looks like Brigham Young, and just sit down like they've got good sense. For those of you who follow my tweets you know this was the night I was treating a sore throat with Jim Beam, and, of course I'm Packing. God bless the second amendment! So, for those of you who don't like people defending themselves I will let you know that we all had a nice chat, shook hands, and the two workers left without any holes in them. 

     Oh, I'm sorry, the investigation? As I write this the assailed twin is at the clinic. Seems the "bruise" was a shadow caused by the mumps. Yeah, remember those? When the teacher by passed the REGISTERED NURSE in the clinic this entire comedy of errors commenced from a case of mumps! Oh, it'll drag out. Like I said, that's a lot of money on the table. Speaking of money let's see what this cluster screw cost YOU Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer. Hmmmm, fully staffed, twenty-four seven call center in Austin, at Austin rates, one investigator, one guy with the investigator, car, gas, cell phone, police officer, secretary and appropriate staff down at the office to type all this up. The full physicals and psyche evals of five children you didn't pay for, WE paid for that, because when we get into one of these things we like to use LICENSED doctors NOT on the take from the CPS. Oh, and we footed the bill for the health department coming out and giving the house a clean bill of health, and the thirty five dollars for the fire department to tap all the fire extinguishers with that little rubber hammer they have. All because some school ma'arm decided to stop teaching reading, writing, and rithmatic, and chose to play Doctor! Hey, maybe I can get that teacher to come out, I mean, she likes to play doctor so much.

iJackie

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I don’t often write about Jackie, in fact I try not to dwell on her too much.  It’s just too painful. Also, I know that by hammering on your own case over and over makes you a bore, and you’re not going to win anything by doing that anyway. I’m doing this article to fill in some blanks for my friends at RER, and I’m going to be frank. 

Jacquiline Brandt Witt is (was) my daughter in law, married to my son, Timothy. More than that she was my daughter. Jackie was born in Nashville Tennessee in 1989. Her father, John, moved his family to Detroit following the Rap scene. John was an engineer/producer. Jackie grew up sleeping in her father’s studio. Over the years she would visit us here in Texas, or we would go see her. I remember one time in Nashville when I was going to Shoney’s to eat breakfast and I took a three year old Jackie with me one Sunday morning.  When I asked her what she wanted she replied, “All the eggs int he world.” Seventeen years later, at an iHop in Georgetown she winked at me and repeated that order. 

When she was seventeen years old she became pregnant out of wedlock. Her father took her to Dallas to live with his sister, but in short order Jackie was at odds with the strict Lutheran family there so John brought her to Berry Creek. Berry Creek is an exclusive golf course community in Georgetown, just north of Austin. Jackie was a dream! She was the perfect house guest. My wife, Pam, said she was the most perfect daughter we could ever have. Jackie had an issue, however. During her stay in Dallas she had apparently made an agreement to give up her child at birth. Surrounded by friends, and safety she now relented, and after we assured her that she and the child would be safe she wanted to live in Berry Creek and raise her daughter, who would be named Lydia Rose. I would like to add, the people who wanted the unborn child were not evil people. They had never agreed with John’s lifestyle and thought they were doing what was best for the child. I’ve never faulted them for their beliefs, and we remain in contact till this day. 

We approached lawyers and asked if we could get Jackie emancipated under Texas law, but were told that she was so close to having her child the legal process would out run the birth, and of course, the family in Dallas would use their paperwork to secure the baby before that could happen. A plan was arrived at. Timothy was in prison at the time. He knew Jackie, grew up with her, and told us that if we arranged a proxy marriage that would make Jackie a married woman and secure their child at birth. That was the route we took.

We were quite surprised when Timothy made parole the very next month! Seems since he now had a “family” that weighed in his favor. Tim had lots of issues, mainly drugs, but in our crazy minds we thought that with the advent of Jackie, and the baby, perhaps he’d walk a straighter line. What can I say? We made a mistake. The week before Timothy’s release Jackie was making bottles, changing diapers and making videos on YouTube. She had dubbed herself “iJackie” and made films about young single mother copes with life. The night before we went to Huntsville to pick him up Jackie and I were making a film, but she wasn’t into it. I asked what was wrong, and she told me Timothy worried her.  After I assured her that things would work out she said, “Dad, I’m as happy as I’ve ever been. I don’t want to lose it.” Those words have haunted me ever since. Jackie proved herself to be a prophet!  It took Timothy less than a month to destroy that happiness. Jackie made a mistake, too. With her Nashville/Detroit background she believed she could corral Tim and keep his nose to the grindstone. He demanded that his “wife” move out of Berry Creek and live in an apartment with him. Naturally, the drug pushers appeared and Tim was right back on the rock again, living a lawless life, up to and including jumping parole. 

Jackie left and returned to Detroit, but came back when faced with the studio atmosphere. In one film she makes the statement, “I made myself forget. I never told you about those things because I made myself forget!” She really tried to make her marriage work! She had known Timothy since she could remember, and once told me, “My husband is so hot! I can’t believe he has time for something like me!” Right about this time our son, Bobby died. He was twenty nine years old and had sever health problems, but his death had a profound effect on all of us, including Jackie. She went with her husband, still on the run, and ended up living from one place to another. Tim was assisted in hiding from the law by friends, who, of course, cut all of us out, and that separation included the kids, which were four by now. When it all came crashing down Jackie came back to Berry Creek, with the CPS in hot pursuit. 

Because of Bobby’s death, my wife and I had actually trained to become foster parents. Not in the traditional sense, we had an idea of dressing up the big house on the tenth green to provide temporary accommodations for children pulled out of their homes, needing a layover until a solution could be found. In our ignorance we believed the solution would almost always be reunification. When Jackie came home we notified our associates in the CPS, telling them where the children were and they came out. Actually, it was easy. They had already approved the home and the only problem was, so long as we had the four we could have no more because they said the home was full and could easily accommodate that number. They took Jackie to the porch to interview her and upon coming back into the house the added one more stipulation. They didn’t want her in the home. 

They reasoned that since Jackie had willingly stayed with Tim during his run from the law  that she was an enabler, and they were right. Jackie was enamored with her husband and would capitulate to him at any time. She went that very night to a friend’s house in nearby Florence. We, as a family, began to work toward putting the family back together. The CPS was all over us on a daily basis, but that didn’t bother us. Our main house (there were four) was a copy of Elivis’ Graceland. Winding staircase, huge picture windows with views of the golf course,  a theater, three living areas, five bedrooms and associated baths. The children all had their own areas and played in the yard. They were all “golden” members of the Berry Creek Country Club with unlimited golf privileges, which meant they got to ride in golf carts. Jackie could have regular “supervised” visits. 

Jackie began to change. It was one thing having to put up with Timothy, and eating breakfast at the Berry Creek Country Club, and it was quite another living with Timothy and expecting him to provide anything other than a “rock.” Although Jackie never tested positive for any drugs, her loss of weight, her attention span, and her attitude told us that she had slipped over to the dark side. The huge mental assault proved to be too much for the little girl from Detroit, and after being assaulted, and confined to the Austin State Hospital she began to wise up. If you want to see graphic images of this just look at the first clip of the above video. This was taken a few days after Jackie’s return from living with her husband, and look at all the other clips. It’s like two different people. Tim called the CPS daily with all sorts of complaints about our treatment of “his” children, believing in his crack-headed mind that he would labor the CPS into giving his kids back. They finally removed them from our home and placed them with an “Aunt” in Waco. About this time Jackie got out of the mental hospital and lo and behold, she, Tim and all the kids wound up in California! 

Due to threats of kidnapping and other things the family came back to Austin. The CPS seized the children at the airport and gave them to a foster mother. Though he never confided in me Alex Jones made a statement in a video called, “The Day Alex Jones Cried,” where he said, “They seize our kids at the airport to give them to the pedophile government, we have such a sick society!“ The CPS allowed my wife to see them at their office with “supervised” visits, but very quickly cut me out. They told my wife that if she would divorce me that she could adopt the kids. I fought this, but after Lydia went into a diabetic coma, near death, and little Bobby had to get eight stitches in his head, I, myself, drew up the divorce papers and represented both me and my wife in court. The CPS was so adamantly against me that they said I could not even see my wife to hand her the final paperwork. I had to leave it under a sugar shaker in the Monument Cafe in Georgetown and she would come in and pick them up after I left. 

She moved out of the main house and took up residence in Killeen, some fifty miles away, in one of our other homes. My now “ex” gave up her real estate brokerage, her homes, her marriage, and her health, in order to save those babies! At this time, Jackie was trying, yet again, to make a life with Tim. He was spinning yarns about a “ranch” somewhere, but in reality was living in a travel trailer on a friend’s land. At night the crack smoke was so thick that Jackie took to sleeping outside in a buffalo robe in order to breathe. She was pregnant with “New Baby,” by this time. When William (that’s New Baby’s real name) was born the CPS snatched him from the bed! My now ex had paperwork in order and took him away from them right there in the parking lot of the hospital and lawyers attached William to the existing adoptions. The only thing Jackie was good at was having babies, and she became pregnant again. She went to Dallas to live with the aunt who she had problems with years before, but this time she had to make it work. So it was church, tractor pulls, and Sunday dinners for ol’ Jackie Jo! 

I saw Jackie the last time at Berry Creek. She’d come down for a quick visit because my co-producer, Lance was in town for the summer and wanted to make an “iJackie” with her. They made the movie, “Gypsies.” We took one last ride on the golf course and I told her that I didn’t know where she was up in Dallas, but go back there. This place was no good for her. A very aged, mature Jaquiline looked me in the eye and said, “You got that right!” 

I went to California for a while, and Jackie melted into Dallas/Fort Worth. After several assaults by the CPS, in an effort to take the babies, my ex, and her new husband, Joe, bought a home in Brigham City, Utah. Believe it or not, our family has healed. Pam has the five. They are Lydia, now renamed Karrie Anne (Puck), Bobby, renamed Justin (Just a Bobby) the twins, Chris and Nick (known as the “Sumos”) and Steven Michael (New Baby.) With the New Baby CPS said that in no way could he be named after me and that all family ties to the Witt family must be destroyed, so he was renamed Steven Michael (my Catholic confirmation name!) Jackie nicknamed him “New Baby” because she was only allowed to know him for two hours. 

I will not defend Jackie’s actions. I will not say she was right in all of her decisions. Her story is not what motivates me in my actions concerning the CPS. It’s everything else! It’s 231 little dead Texans, it’s little Alex Hill, it’s the baby girl with duck tape around her face, it’s all the rape, sodomy, murder and abuse dished out by the Child Protective Services! It’s the abject human misery generated by a department dominated by Satanic, perverted, mongols, skirting the constitution, and human rights. It’s the tears of every mother who’s had her baby pulled from her arms in the middle of the night by a Godless animal, with the blessings of the state! That’s what motivates me! 

Jackie’s story is complex. There are many twists and turns. I could tell you that she is genius level. I could tell you she was the most brilliant video producer Lance had ever seen. I could tell you she was a wonderful cook, but none of that matters. She made mistakes, but let me ask you. Four babies taken out of a mansion, with caretakers, up to and including police officers, family, doctors (who were ignored by CPS), friends and no Timothy! Shouldn’t it have been time to letfamily take care of family? This is what we’ve lost, people. Family no longer matters. The stateowns our kids! 

We’ve all gone on with our lives. Jackie, herself, has moved on. The babies and my ex are safe in Utah. Timmy is the only one paying the Devil, and that is well and good because he should. Game over! The children do not remember Jackie, well, all but one. Jackie used to tell Puck she was her “Fairy Ballerina Princess.” During a video I did with Puck I asked what her name was, and she said, “Karrie Anne.” I asked if Anyone called her “Puck,” to which she replied, “My teacher doesn’t call me ‘Puck.’ My mommy calls me ‘Puck.” She called me a Fairy Ballerina Princess!” You see, CPS, you never know what’s waiting for you when you perpetuate evil. Wouldn’t you hate it if one day in the future Senator Puck convenes hearings on the Child Protective Services?

Simple Ol' Boy From Austin

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Culpability

Please watch this video before reading this article:  

When our family became involved with the CPS we went through many changes. Like so many people we had this core belief that the Child Protective Services was basically a government department that in theory at least, was charged with the protection of children. The reality is so far beyond that it boggles the mind. When you begin to learn of the abuses of the system you really believe the stories are concocted by conspiracy nuts. Indeed, whenever someone loses their child to the CPS, friends and neighbors may express sympathy, but in the back of their minds they wonder just what did the parents do?  They must have done something!

Before my journey was over I was advocating the execution of CPS case workers under the Texas Law of Parties. This is a Texas Penal Code law that allows that anyone connected with a crime in any way should have culpability. Culpability is defined as the responsibility for a fault or wrong; blame. Example: If I were to undertake robbing a bank, and brought a driver for the getaway car, and subsequently I kill a bank teller, the driver is help equal fault with me and there will  be two gurneys in Huntsville that night. How can a two year old little girl be murdered by a Foster Parent and the CPS Case Worker who put the child there in the first place not be culpable? 

This is a strong statement. This makes me look like a raving fanatic. This makes people construct elaborate scenarios, expound on the noble purpose of the Child Protection Industry, but culpability is still there! What is the life of a child worth? A couple of years ago I did an article called “The 243,” citing numbers from one of CPS’s own reports as to the number of dead or missing children who had been under their care during a certain period. I was told I had inflated the numbers. I was told my report was not “scientific.” It’s two years later. I got an email from a friend. He actually put in up on my wall on Facebook, complete with names and ages. Expanded? Not scientific? Try over seven hundred! 

It amazes me how good, decent people can see numbers like that and still go about their day as if all is fine. In Nazi Germany there were good, hard working people living within the smell of the ovens, and chose to ignore it. Today, when a police officer chokes a man to death on the streets of New York the crowds stand around afraid to speak because they know the wrath will turn on them should they speak up. Same thing here. “They won’t hurt my kids because certainly those people must have done something wrong, and I never would.” They are comfortable in that assumption, and friends, that’s exactly what it is, an assumption! The one deciding factor in the CPS quest for your children is the color of their skin, and eyes. That is a fact, ladies and gentlemen. 

A child is seven times more in danger of serious injury or death while under CPS “care” than if they’d been left with a parent mainlining heroin. That was reported in the New York Times so do tell me I “inflated” the number! My own grandson still has a scar over his left eye from the blow of a foster parent after he tried to save his sister (Puck) from dying from a diabetic dropout, a condition the CPS refused to acknowledge even over ruling doctors at Scott and White Hospital! Professional Foster Care is an industry that brings in millions by tendering children to pedophiles waiting eagerly for the child of their choice, picked from a menu. 

Extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary measures. Yes, I advocate capital punishment for CPS case workers found culpable with the death of a child. I don’t need a bunch of lawyers trying to explain their way around the commas in the penal code. I am still convinced that the first body bag that rolls out of Huntsville Penitentiary with “Miss Johnson” in it will send a very loud and clear message to the CPS, that will reverberate throughout Texas. Children’s lives MATTER! You kill one of our babies, and we will kill you back! We will rid the planet of your DNA! It’s coming, people. The grass roots movement is gaining momentum, and will catch up with the criminals within that evil system. I haven’t changed. My fervor has not abated. I wait for that body to roll out so I can look at the CPS director in the eye and say, “Now you’ve tasted my mutton. .  . how do you like it, huh?” I gave up my soul a long time ago. I pray to God to distribute what little part of heaven I ever had to little Alex Hill, and the hundreds just like her. I would be happy to burn in hell, so long as I burn beside a CPS caseworker.   

I hear about good CPS workers, and I always say that all Nazis did not work in concentration camps. Some had nice offices in Berlin and just counted the numbers. If there are any good CPS workers they need to heed my words because I’m not alone. We are legion, and some of us aren’t nice like me. Alex Hill’s blood cries out from the grave. Don’t let your apathy drown her voice out.  

Simple Ol' Boy From Austin

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The Statue in the Park

The fight to align CPS with the civilized world is a long and hard one. History has shown again and again that once a person, or group of persons has a power base they tend not to let it go. And any bureaucracy will, with time, move farther and farther away from its original intent until the only evidence or that original purpose is only the name and that in itself is a heresy. 

Combine this with the same group of people who subscribe to what they perceive to be a mandate to change society so that it conforms with some utopian vision that exist nowhere but their crazy minds. Add a mantra, "It's all about the children," mix in the possibility of huge blocks of funding, immunity, and a dash of sexual divination and there you have it. Big Brother, National Socialism and Chairman Mao all rolled into one. Dante's perfect picture of hell!

With the willing cooperation of family court judges and shyster lawyers CPS has had a good, long run, longer even than Adolph Hitler and just as depraved and deadly. If it were one child, or two here and there, even that would not be acceptable, but that is not the case. The illegal removal of children, the trampling of the constitution, the rape and deaths of children, and the ultimate dissolving of the American family has become the norm, the 

benchmark of the Child Protective Services. And why do the American people allow this?

I don't have the time or the patience to enumerate all of the crimes, offenses and lies that have been generated by this organization. One of our problems is the masses of parents who have lost their children screaming for justice just look like bad parents with a bad case of sour grapes. We must get people involved with our cause who have not previously touched by the CPS. But the veiled threat is always there. "If you come at us we will destroy YOUR family,"  because it IS all about the children. YOUR children! No one is safe, and the sooner middle America realizes that the sooner we can fix this problem!

I know that some of you think that somehow, somewhere there are good CPS workers. I wish this were so, but it is not. I remind people every day that not all Nazis worked in the gas chambers. A lot of them worked in nice offices in Berlin keeping the body count and making sure the supply of ZYCLON D didn't run out. The nicest, smiling CPS lady, the one who comes to your parties, the one who helps you coach soccer, the one who helped you arrange your daughter's birthday party, that nice lady has wrenched a baby from a young mother's arms because it's all about the children!  Wake up! You are next!

So what do we do? First, and foremost we recognize among ourselves that there is basically nothing good about the current system. The last Sunset Commission proved that. Witness after witness paraded before them and all the CPS director had to say was, "Mistakes will be made!" The unspoken truth was they need to hide the bodies a little better next time. Take the blinders off. Know these people for what they really are. Don't trust them, don't cooperate with them and let everyone you know who they are and what they do! The same with foster parents. They are just one more branch of the evil machine. They are not nice people who are trying to help, they have assisted in the destruction of an American family. Little Johnny will never see his mother again because they put in an order for a blonde haired, blue eyed little boy. The Fuhrer would  be so proud!

Next, we legislate! We destroy the system that has perpetuated this atrocity. We force CPS to abide by the law, and not just when we catch them lying and stealing but all the time. And put real penalties for those caught misusing the system. Real jail. Real cotton fields and real prison yards! Have watchdog agencies to monitor the actions of Family Court judges and when a disproportionate number of children are removed by that judge, then that judge should be impeached and jailed!  I sat and watched court proceedings just one day and the judge removed one hundred percent of the children brought before her.  I never saw a colder, more unfeeling animal in my life. She literally fed from the human misery she helped to perpetuate.  God forgives, I don't!

Then track down, arrest, and incarcerate all criminals from the old CPS system. No statute of limitations. No probation and no plea bargains! Just good old fashioned justice. But before we can do this we must sway the hearts and minds of mainstream America. We must make them see and what they eventually see will be so horrific, so alien, so damning that hopefully when it's all over no child will every be subjected ever again to the abomination we have come to know as the CPS!

I wish that one day there is a statue on the Capitol grounds in Austin. A stone bench with an old man sitting on it. Beside him there's a little girl, looking up at him, holding an ice cream cone, and on the base the words, "In memory of the unknown child," to honor all the babies who were forever lost to the CPS killing machine. 

National (Expose) Adoptions Month Is Near

There once was a time when adoptions were a good thing. Such a great thing that the month of November is “National Adoption Month.” All across the US there will be organizations and agencies that celebrate children finding a forever home. Unfortunately there will be thousands of parents filling great sorrow because adoptions has become a profitable business.

Some years back, the federal government started offering adoption incentives to attract more adoptive parents. These incentives for each state are based on an ever increase in adoptions. As a result more children had to be brought into the system. In doing so more children had to be brought in and more parental rights terminated. This presented a situation for more court appointed attorneys to collect more fees. Now many businesses make money off of these children. A practice that needs to be stopped.

So we are asking that people help us turn it into National (Expose) Adoption month. We are asking people to start posting pictures of their children to whom rights were terminated on the social media. If not pictures, post your stories. We must build awareness across this nation that adoption is not what it used to be. That now it borders on legalized human trafficking. Please expose (at the bare min) the County and State where your rights were terminated. Any addition information is up to you. All we ask is that you include the hash-tag #natexposeadoption in your post or tweet allowing all the posts to be drawn togeather.

Not All Testimony Sent to Sunset Was Posted

Public testimony sent in to the Texas Sunset Commission was supposed to be included in the public comments list. This was presented for the Department of Family and Protective Services portion. While the Angel Eyes over Texas testimony was sent in before the June 30th deadline, it was not. For that reason I am posting it here for your review.

Please take the time to read it and post comments at the bottom.

Thank you.


Jim Black, founder
Angel Eyes over Texas

515 S Bender #708
Humble, TX 77338
 281-706-0352

June 29, 2014

Attention Sunset Commission Members:

First I would like to thank you for allowing us the opportunity testify on June 25^th. I found the experience to be enlightening but a little bit disheartening.

In case you did not know it, this Sunset review of DFPS is being followed by Child Protection reform advocates nationwide. Texas has the opportunity to lead the nation in developing a workable cutting edge system that rebuilds families instead of tearing them apart.

To help you understand my testimony let me first tell you a little bit about myself and Angel Eyes over Texas. My background is not in Social Work or Law; but instead in manufacturing as a Manufacturing Engineer. My lack of a formal education (GED) resulted in my working specialty contracts for 52 companies in 32 years over a wide course of industries; often more in the capacity of Corporate Anthropology than engineering. When presented with the Discovery on the 2^nd trial against my youngest daughter; the lack of integrity and obviously bad casework, it became painfully apparent DFPS is not being operated in the manner in which it was designed.

Understanding DFPS Disposition. - Before I get heavily involved with my observations, I first ask you to look (outside the box) at how DFPS handles dispositions. For the purpose of this text and in observation of all public testimony, I beseech the Commission Members to apply Texas Administrative Code 40 TAC §700.511 to the evidence presented before you. The first subsection of that Rule is listed below.

(a) Allegation dispositions. An allegation disposition is the finding made in the investigation about each individual allegation of abuse/neglect which was identified at intake or during the investigation.

(1) Reason-to-believe. Based on a preponderance of the evidence, staff conclude that abuse or neglect has occurred.

(2) Ruled-out. Staff determine, based on available information, that it is reasonable to conclude that the abuse or neglect has not occurred.

(3) Unable to complete. Staff could not draw a conclusion whether alleged abuse or neglect occurred, because the family:

(A) could not be located to begin the investigation or moved and could not be located to finish the investigation; or

(B) was unwilling to cooperate with the investigation.

(4) Unable-to-determine. Staff conclude that none of the dispositions specified in paragraphs (1) - (3) of this subsection is appropriate.

(5) Administrative closure. Information received after a case was assigned for investigation reveals that continued Child Protective Services intervention is unwarranted as outlined in §700.507 of this title (relating to Investigation Interviews).

Determining Overall Disposition for the Investigation

Criteria for an Allegation Disposition		Overall Disposition
If any allegation disposition is:	and no allegation disposition is:	then the overall disposition is:
Reason to Believe (RTB)	(not applicable)	Reason to Believe
Unable to Determine (UTD)	Reason to Believe	Unable to Determine
Unable to Complete (UTC)	·  Reason to Believe, or   ·  Unable to Determine	Unable to Complete
Ruled Out (R/O)	·  Reason to Believe,   ·  Unable to Determine, or   ·  Unable to Complete	Ruled Out
Administrative Closure (ADM)	·  Reason to Believe,   ·  Unable to Determine,   ·  Unable to Complete, or   ·  Ruled Out	Administrative Closure

Table 1: Appendix 2472.1-A: Determining Overall Disposition and Overall Role (CPS Handbook)

In an early observation please notice how this table from the CPS handbook does not match the Administrative Code Rule.

But for the purpose of this text I will be using Reason to Believe (RTB),Unable to Determine (UTD) and Ruled Out (R/O) in presenting a number of my observations.

Early Observations

When a person first looks at the child protection system in Texas they see what appears to be one of the best systems in the nation. But when that same person looks at the delivery side and it is observed that same system is being grossly misapplied.

Texas has most of it's DFPS related handbooks online and they are updated monthly. This simple transparency makes Texas makes it unique among the other states. The only handbook that appears to be missing is the Administrative Management Policies and Procedures handbook. Through the Texas Public Information Act, all government information that affects a Texas citizen is to be made available to them. I feel that it should be also made public so that Rule 201 of both the Texas and Federal Rules of Evidence can be applied allowing it to be used as a quality control element in the courts.

Quality control is a major problem with DFPS. The agency has operated with such of a high turnover rate and lack of tenure that it has lost it's knowledge base. The lack of proper training has pushed the agency farther and farther away from it's intended mission. Remember that anytime a DFPS employ fails to follow the guidelines, statutes and rules set forth by the state they are actually insubordinate to their employer, the people of Texas. When it comes to statutes in many cases that insubordination results in down right criminal behavior, which violates Article 1 Section 30 of the Texas Constitution. Criminal behavior by caseworkers needs to trigger compensation under the Crime Victim Compensation Act of 1979.

Wednesday morning Rep. Dutton commented, “This is government at its worse.” A bit later in the morning his quizzing the Sunset staff revealed a major problem. While on the surface the question only appeared to address rather or not the complaint process was effective or not. There is far deeper rooted problem here. Is DFPS delivering what it is supposed to be? And isn't that the reason for Sunset?

On Tuesday we heard the staff report, Stephens and agency response. All of which focused on the operational side of the agency, but I heard very little about the effectiveness of outcomes and service delivery. Then on Wednesday we heard a great deal about service delivery, but very little (almost none) of it was positive.

We also heard a great deal about culture and a need for change. Tyrone Obaseki hit it pretty close when he said the key word is “paradigm”. I agree it is going to take a paradigm shift, change in focus and totally different mind set to make the system successful.

To show just how dysfunctional the system has become let's look at the job Reunification Safety Services (RSS). Angel Cook mentioned it in her testimony. I in mine. This job function is described in Section 3500 of the handbook and managed by rule under 40 TAC §700.703. It was mentioned as a FBSS function on pages 78-79 of the self evaluation, but NOTHING in the staff report. With a vague mention of it in the Stephens Group assessment as functions of CVS. The handbook shows it to be a standalone job function not to be tied into caseloads from CVS or FBSS.

We feel that the failure of this job function from appearing more than vague mention in the Stephens report is a clear indication that it is being by passed all together. No other DFPS job function has a more direct effect on Recidivism; which in turn effects caseloads. If you are looking for something that inflates caseloads, here is a place to look.

But it is not just RSS where this is a problem. Families report the lack of actually receiving a list of services from any stage of service. It appears the department would rather keep the child needlessly in the system while collecting Title IV funds than to actually follow the process and return the child when possible.

Very often it is very hard to determine who or what DFPS is protecting. In many ways it appears the agency is exploiting the very people it is to protect.

Recommendations

It has long been my contention that DFPS had far too much power for the quality of service it delivers. For that reason my recommendation is to Sunset DFPS as we know it. In it's stead create two new Sunset agencies to be reviewed on *6 year cycles with one in sync with operational related agencies such as the current with the next synchronized with Judicial related. (* Should be considered for even if DFPS remains)

1. Department of Services Protecting Families. Answering directly to the Governor.

• Face time is of utmost importance. Develop procedures allowing maximum interaction with those being served.
• Make maximum use of technology to improve contact.
• Develop case management around GPS technology.
• Move as much management functions to hand eld devices.
• Adopt rules based Enterprise Resource Management into case management.
• Re-purpose law enforcement squad cars for caseworker use. Set up motor pools in each region with gas and maintenance contracts through out. Replace prisoner rear bench seats with ones containing 3 integrated child seats. All vehicles should be equipped with printers.
• Develop casework pools where work is shared.
• Have law enforcement conduct the initial investigation. Current investigations convert to Safety Assessment workers keying in safety assessment real time into their hand devices. Printing various documentation before leaving.
• Use parallel case management when ever possible.

2. Office of Independent Ombudsman for Department of Services Protecting Families. Answering directly to the Attorney General.

• Write legislation insuring that workers know the limits of their immunity.
• Strengthen the immunity statute making it a violation to fail to collect information that would clear a family or points to criminal activity within the agency.
• Make the illegal removal of a child an offense under Penal Code §39.03 with min jail time for second offense.
• Amend the statute of limitations for a caseworker committing crimes against a child to “Age 18, plus 10 years.” along with a child aging out automatically gets a copy of their records.
• Make records required for discovery self redacting. Allowing them to be made available before the 14 day Adversary Hearing.
• Make discovery ongoing and presented at each PMC review hearing.

Numerous other things that need to be presented.

Understanding that a working family is a safe family. It is better to offer services that repair the broken families and reduce recidivism. The only way to do that is take a fresh approach. In the Sunset's staff missing the reunification I can't help but wonder how much more has been missed. In the past, reform and redesign efforts have been made with the Ombudsman's office and Office of Consumer Affairs internal and it has been ineffective at curbing improper and illegal behavior by employees. Currently the ACA refuses to collect information while a case is open. In the case of DFPS getting Permanent Managing Conservator-ship the case is never closed as long as the child is in the system.

As in our case. We know that the two initial investigations were falsified. Caseworker and supervisor were instructed to close the case 7 months before removal. The only exigent circumstance that existed the day of removal was the conditions they created would not exist later. After refusing the caseworker entry they sent an apartment maintenance worker through the window to open the door. It was never revealed what the danger they entered the home to stop was. Caseworker lied and put in her report claiming eldest son did not live there; instructing dad to not allow contact with mom there by placing child under Official Oppression by failing to hold a proper §262.106 hearing. From the time of removal on June 25, 2009 to children's return on March 14, 2014, caseworkers only made two visits: December 16, 2009 and January 28, 2014. Never any contact with a RSS caseworker. We believe the intent was to delay as long as possible to collect child support and Title IV funding.There are more details within my 4-15-14 testimony in attachments.

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Jim Black

Angel Eyes over Texas

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