A couple of House bills signed into law recently here in Michigan hope to increase transparency and accountability by the Office of Children’s Ombudsman. The idea behind the bills came from Representative Matt Hall, who believes that the needed transparency for investigations into the state’s child welfare system was missing. And so he decided to…
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Welcome back, and thanks for joining us for the wrap up of this discussion on the ridiculous amount of power given to CPS by the Central Registry. As we’ve already discussed in previous articles, Michigan’s central registry is worse than the sex offender registry in some ways, and if your name gets put on the…
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again for this discussion on the ridiculous over-reach of CPS in Michigan. More specifically, the ability of a CPS to label someone a child abuser and put their name on the Central Registry – a list just as condemning as the sex offender registry! If you’re just joining…
Michigan’s Central Registry, also known as the “child abuser registry” is a classic example of the terrifying and seemingly limitless power that CPS is sometimes granted by the state. The fact that they can simply decide that you’re a neglect or abusive parent or caregiver, and then label you as such without ever having to…
Erica Hammel was convinced that her son, Wyatt, was being abused by her ex’s new girlfriend, Rachel Edwards. But had no way to prove it. Without proof, the court refused to deny Edwards access to Wyatt. As a result, he ended up being shaken hard enough to cause permanent brain injuries. This left him facing…
Michigan’s Child Abuse Registry is slowly getting closer to becoming a reality. “Wyatt’s Law,” as the bipartisan trio of bills is known, would require that the Michigan State Police set up and maintain an online registry similar to the Sex Offender Registry that Michigan already uses to keep track of convicted sex offenders after release….
Welcome back and thank you for joining us against for this discussion on “Wyatt’s Law” – the pending child abuser registry currently being considered by the Michigan legislature. In our previous article we talked about some of the consequences that sex offenders live with as a result of the state’s sex offender registry, and…
Picture this: Your spouse is accused of child abuse. The two of you do everything you can to fight the charge – hire the best attorney you can afford, deny the allegations, work to discover the truth – but to no avail. Your spouse is convicted and heads to jail. Thankfully the charge is…
Currently in the works for Michigan, is one of the biggest and most controversial laws ever proposed by lawmakers. The child abuse registry is a searchable database including the name and personal information of every person ever convicted of child abuse in the state. A good idea, right? After all, as a parent, who wouldn’t want to…
Michigan, like every other state, has a sex offender registry which allows the public to conduct searches on individuals regarding any prior sex-related convictions. But there is a significant chance that we may also be the first state in the US to also get a child abuse registry, facilitating searches for any history of child…