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Posted at 8:35am on Apr. 30, 2008 Lemonade and electric cattle prods

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Yesterday "in the sphere" I linked to a column over at Life with Mr. O about the utter inanity of Michigan's current crop of child protection laws.  In a State and under a system where Ricky Holland and Isaac Lethbridge were sent to homes where they met tragic and violent ends without a single head rolling at DHS it's more than a little frustrating that the "system" went out of it's way to strip the Ratte family of their 7 year old son because Mr. Ratte accidentally purchased him an alcohol laced lemonade from a Comerica Park concession stand adorned with this sign...

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Posted at 8:36am on Feb. 13, 2008 Even when you give them more cash the Granholm administration can't produce results!

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

And just when it looked like they had an excuse to hang their hats on.  This has been a rough week for Governor Jennifer Granholm's bureaucracy as it pertains to at-risk children in foster homes and under State supervision.  The legislature heard testimony yesterday that a desperately needed (and pricey) computer system update that could save lives, already bought and paid for by the taxpayers, is way behind schedule.

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Posted at 9:51am on Feb. 12, 2008 Report finds Jennifer Granholm's DHS directly responsible for childrens' deaths

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

As a child advocacy group prepares for it's date taking the State of Michigan to court reports and details surrounding the tragic deaths of numerous wards of the State continue to hit the newswires.  And the more we hear the uglier things look.  The preventable deaths of five children comprise the centerpiece of a study issued yesterday.  These are kids whose interests the State of Michigan were supposed to be looking after.  The Department of Human Services didn't just fail.  At times they may have been complicit.  

The Ivory Tower reports on several of the cases in question:


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