Michigan Votes Forum

Our non-profit organization....CITIZENS for PARENTAL RIGHTS applauds Senator Rick Jones for all his efforts in legislation to protect the children and families of Michigan. However, in discussion of SB 320, our organization found that the bill as it is presently proposed, leaves too many loopholes where...

If a charitable organization is licensed through the Bureau of Children and Adult Licensing, it does not have to go through the Attorney General's office charity licensure requirements. The Attorney General contemporaneously advises and advocates fraudulent patterns of practice for the privately...

This will not include child placing agencies nor residential institutions. The Bureaua of Children and Adult Licensing will take down any damaging report of a facility, and in many situtations, will not, even under a FOIA, produce the report. Any facility regarding child welfare should be included in...

Will this include child placing agencies and residential institutions in the realms of foster care? Allow me to answer this one: No. The reason is if foster care contracted entitites are mandated to be transparent, then they will have to be accountable, which means they would be contractually disbarred...

As this arrangement is to address the notification of eligibilty for child care subsides, focus should be directed to the core of the statute, and that is to the criminal element for Medicaid fraud. Medicaid fraud in child welfare has been allowed to flourish in the state due to absolute ignorance in...

Will "reasonable efforts" be defined within the scope of this legislation or will it mean that the "Reasonable Efforts" box was checked on the court petition. That is normally all that is done child protective proceedings. Beverly Tran An Original Source

After a bit of checking around, the true purpose of this bill is to prevent the public and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from finding out that the entire process and the existence of the Michigan Children's Institute is illegitimate and to cover up the state's Mediciad fraud...

So the Office of Children's Ombudsman is now, "allowed" to provide to the Legislative Child Fatality Examiner copy of "suspected child abuse and neglect", with redatction, FOR THE PURPOSE OF A REVIEW OF A CHILD'S DEATH. Great. So, the Office of Children's Ombudsman is...

Why is that all state licensed child placing agencies and child welfare facilities are not held to the same standard as proposed in this bill. Why will Michigan not come into federal compliance and hold all state licensed child welfare entities accountable through license revocation, contractual debarment...

SENATE ALTERNATIVE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 32.5 A concurrent resolution to memorialize the President, the Congress, and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to enhance provisions of the final version of federal health care reform legislation that would reinstate Medicaid regulations...