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I’m from the government and I’m here to help:” When Should the State Intervene in in the Family?

I was honored to be on the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s discussion panel with Judge John Schmude of the 247th Court in Harris County. The topic: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help:” When Should the State Intervene in in the Family?

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  1. I need help. My kids were removed 2 months after moving here because the same teacher we asked for resources from called. I live in McLennan county, CPI lied on the report OR the stand-we don’t know which. Probably both. She also did not record the interviews with my children OR my husband. Kids were drugged in the emergency foster care, as well as bullied. Now back in Vegas they are being coached and conditioned by my family. New allegation. CPS dragging their feet, deemed me u protective so I can’t even have my kids. I don’t understand. All we did was ask the school for resources. . . This has been going on May 23, 2019 with no end in sight.

  4. In Texas… Bosque county… Does Case worker go to the parents residence if the child does not reside there? Also if you have never failed drug test in your life for any reason and are willing to take mouth swab and UA…. But the case worker is wanting to send for hair test, does Case worker have the right to demand hair follicle? I mean probation doesn’t unless you failed UA

    • What should I do if I past every drug test got a clean record but the mother did all this she the reason cps is here but as a dad been good and never got any paper work stating what he did or has to take a drug test every time he wanna see my kid

  5. The judge and lawyer caught Keystella May CPS caseworker on the stand in March of 2016 lying on the stand and threw the case out
    The judge told them to leave us alone. They have harrised us for 3 years until she lied so much and got my grandchildren. I dont see how she can comment purgery on the stand and no one does anything to her
    They broght the cops to my home barged inside and threw my granddaughter on the ground while holding her two children ages 4yrs and one 17 months and her being 5 months pregnant. I asked to see the papers and I was told they did not need any. This caseworker fabricated so many lies on paper that I can prove false. I need to sue CPS and this worker. She even got a hold of files that had been esponged and that in itself is illegal. . What can I do to get my granddaughter out of jail on trumped up charges and harrring our famuly. This person needs to be stopped.

  6. Yes, My grandchildren were taken by cps and placed into foster care where my mentally challenged granddaughter was abused by the foster people who had her. The transportation personal reported to her supervisor that my granddaughter was being abused like everything cps do. They swept it under the rug.They wouldn’t give me custody of them because of my past criminal record.Which i think shouldn’t even be a factor because my past record has nothing to do with kids. My daughter did everything they wanted her to do. They where doing so many illegal things to her. Drug testing test goes missing then whenever it was time for her hearing to get her kids back this test that had been missing for months out of nowhere reappears of course it’s dirty.Her lawyer allowed for this drug test to be used against her. The final nail in the coffin came in September of last yr. Whenever her Attorney coerced her into signing her parental rights away she never went before a judge nor did she ever receive any paper’s from the courts. I have researched I know her civil rights where violated as well as her kids but the area inwhich we live. The lawyer’s here act as if they are afraid to take on cps.I think they should be placed in jail for what happened to my special need granddaughter.

  7. I HAVE A CPS CASE. I WAS TOLD TO PUT MY CHILDREN (AGES 7&10) IN SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES BECAUSE THE CPS WORKER SAID THEY HAVE MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL ISSUES AND IF I DIDN’T COMPLY I WOULD HAVE MY CHILDREN TAKEN FROM ME. I DISENROLLED MY CHILDREN FROM TURNER ELEMENTARY/WILLIS ISD AND HAVE BEEN HOMESCHOOLING MY CHILDREN NOW FOR A MONTH. IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL MY 5TH GRADER WAS BULLIED (PUNCHED IN THE HEAD MULTIPLE TIMES) AND THE PRINCIPAL MADE HIM HUG HIS BULLY. MY 2ND GRADER WAS SAT IN A CORNER AFTER ONLY HIS 2ND DAY, I COMPLAINED TO THE SCHOOL THAT THEY WERE STIGMATIZING MY SON, CPS PUT IN THEIR REPORT MY SON WAS WITHDRAWN AND SAID I EMOTIONALLY ABUSED HIM. HIS GRADES WERE FALSIFIED. MY 5TH GRADER WAS YELLED AT BY HIS TEACHER. MY SON ASKED HIM TO STOP YELLING AT HIM. THE TEACHER STATED HE WOULD CONTINUE YELLING AT MY SON DAILY. I COMPLAINED AND TOLD THE TEACHER HE WAS WILLFULLY YELLING AT MY SON AND IT WAS CAUSING EMOTIONAL DISTRESS. CPS PUT IN THEIR REPORT, I WAS CAUSING EMOTIONAL HARM TO MY CHILDREN. MY FAMILY WAS TARGETED DUE TO OPINIONS (NOT FACTS) BEING PLACED IN THEIR SCHOOL RECORDS FROM TEACHERS. WE HAVE DEALT WITH RACISM. DISCRIMINATION. CPS BLACKMAILED ME. I HAVE A MASTER IN HIGHER EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION, AN EDD IN ORANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP WITH EMPHASIS ON EDUCATION REFORM WITH NACADA CERTIFICATION IN ACADEMIC ADVISING AND CPS IS DEFAMING MY CHARACTER BASED ON NON FACTUAL INFORMATION. CPS PUT IN HER REPORT THAT MY SON TOLD HER WE TRAVELED TO OKLAHOMA SO THAT I COULD PRACTICE WITCHCRAFT AND DURING THE THREE DAY TRIP I DIDN’T FEED MY CHILDREN SO MEDICAL NEGLECT. NEVER BEEN TO OKLAHOMA AND HAVE BEEN A MEMBER OF SADDLEBACK CHURCH ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA FOR 11 YEARS. PER THEIR DOCTOR, MY CHILDREN ARE IN THE 95TH PERCENTILE – HEALTHY. I CONTACTED THE TEA AND OCR ABOUT THE HATE CRIMES AGAINST MY FAMILY AND HOW THE SCHOOL IS USING CPS TO RETALIATE. TEA STATES THEY WOULD INVESTIGATE THE TREATMENT -NEVER HEARD BACK FROM THE TEA. THE CPS WORKER PUT IN HER REPORT I HAD MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE DUE TO MY VETERAN STATUS. CPS SAID I WAS PHYSICALLY ABUSIVE, MEDICALLY NEGLECTED MY CHILDREN, SEXUALLY ABUSED MY CHILDREN – GAVE NO EXPLANATION BUT MY CHILDREN TOLD ME SHE CAME UP TO THE SCHOOL, TOOK THEM OUT OF SCHOOL FOR A FORENSIC INTERVIEW WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE AND FOR THIRTY MINUTES SHE ASKED THEM IF ANYONE TOUCHED THEIR BUTT OR PENIS – MY CHILDREN STATED THEY THINK SHE WAS USING NEURO LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING – AFTER THE CPS WORKER DROPPED BY CHILDREN BACK OFF AT SCHOOL SHE GAVE THEM TEDDY BEARS AND LATER ON THAT DAY THE SCHOOL SAID MY 5TH GRADER TOOK THE TEDDY BEAR GIVEN TO HIM BY THE CPS WORKER, TURNED TO A LITTLE GIRL WHILE ON THE BUS (RECORDS) AND TOLD THE GIRL TO SUCK THE TEDDY BEARS PENIS. THE SCHOOL KNOWS THAT IT CARRIED OUT ILLEGAL ACTIVITY TOWARDS MY FAMILY AND WHEN I SAID THAT I WAS SUING, THEY RETALIATED USING CPS. THERE IS NO FACTUAL INFORMATION IN THE ENTIRE CPS REPORTS JUST CHARACTER BASHING OPINION/PERCEPTION- NO FACTUAL EVIDENCE.

    • Hi Sabrina, If I may ask. What is the name of your CPS worker? I know someone in the same county that is having a nightmare of a time with a CPS worker who has been lying through this whole ordeal. It is so sad, they get away with this?

  8. mr chris branson ,
    my name is brandy moore and I feel my children were removed from care for false alligations . they have removed my 8 year old daughter for a positive drug test . my daughter has been on Adderall since she was 3 years old.plus other medication

  11. Hello my names is keonte nettles. I need help tremendously. Cps has tooken my kids for false allegations. Basically saying that we were in a unsanitary environment. We was over at a friends for just a month. Then we moved back to my mothers house. Me and my spouse. They came out there and stated well since the case was created at that address they will have to treat as we were at that address. But that wasnt our permanent residence. Then my fiance family called and made false accusations saying that were are mentally unstable amd cps has deemed us unfit without and evalutaion done to prove that statement. They gave us a choice in the fbss to either move out and my kids stay with my mother or we stay and our kids go. We had no choice but to move out. Me and my spouse slept in our car continuously asking to start the services and they told us they cant start services until we have a resident. We looked for shelters and none of them him had availability. I got incarcerated. And came back home aug 27th this year. We went to court on 29th. So now the case has been switch to cvs. We have limited visitation and everytime i go to visititation my daughter has marks on her. My son was born july 29th and he is 1 month old. My daughter is a year old. They both are in daycare and my son was not able to visit us because they stated the foster parent forgot his diaper bag food and his car seat. I have apoken with a cps transporter and they stated that this case should have mever gotten this far. My kids are going through this for no reason at all. How do i fight back.

    • Please call my office. My assistant, Janis, will attempt to put you in contact with an attorney in your area.

  12. Mr.Branson, I need some council in bosque county tx. Cps out of Hillsboro county came to my house on bogus accusations and my son failed a drug test, me and my husband were not tested, they removed the children from my home because my son left and my grandson threw a fit. This was over a year ago,since then my sons girlfriends mother has had them,on Tuesday she could now longer handle them and now there with my sons girlfriends sister. I want these kids- I love them and I want to adopt them. They are my grandkids. I’m stable, I’m not a drug addict , been married for 10yrs ,my husband an electrician, the case worker on this case won’t return my calls,she has moreless black balled me. What’s really sad is these children want to live with me. You can ask my grandson whose 4 yrs old if you could go anywhere in the car where would it be and he says pumas house. I have a little farm out here on 200 acres. Cps won’t even consider me,I have no criminal record. I’m ready to fight these folks and get these children where they belong – I’m in it for the long haul.please help me or give me a recommendation of somebody that can.

    • Please call my office. My assistant, Janis, will attempt to put you in contact with an attorney in your area.

    • I am so sorry that you are going through this as my family is also. We have battled for 8 years to no avail. I pray that your grandchildren are now with you. I haven’t seen my granddaughter in 21 months. We do not know where she is and my daughter has joint custody of her daughter. It is a living nightmare. We also reside in Bosque county

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