Michigan Votes Forum

Michigan Children's Institute needs to be shut down. It is nothing but a negligent misrepresentation of a front man for hustling dollars to fill the hole in the state budget because community leaders are padding their pockets by breaching contracts and public trust at the expense of kids just to fund political campaigns of elected officials who

"It's called a dumpster." Someone please explain to me how it is a lawmaker can rewrite landlord tenant and contract law. Seriously. Once judicial determination is made on the breech of contractual arrangement, the tenant, being found responsible for the breech must move out. Why must the landlord take on financial burdens of a storage

Once again we must force the child to adhere to the standing structures of education. There should not be an age nor a time period of learning. Children possess the abilities to learn at a very early age, including secondary languages. If the state is to compete on a global scale, it would be in the best interests to invest in the learning process early

There are three major components missing to this piece of legislation, the first being there is no referral mechanism. If, during the audit process there are findings of violations of law, then what? If it is not reported then there is no recovery. In essences, "who cares if you are non-compliant to the grant. Nothing is going to happen."

Didn't Eric Cantor pull the same faux pas with the STOCK Act? Here you have a bill that means well but has no clue on execution. For example, where is the reporting mechanism???? Seriously, is anyone even aware of the reporting protocol in child welfare? Allow me to explain. The foster child or juvenile delinquent can file a complaint to the authority

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 contracted child welfare arms of the state. A child

Will there be training for local law enforcement on "reasonable suspicion" and protocol? Are there specific training funds appropriated to MCOLES for the purposes of executing this policy? If not, indemnification and enforcement will only incur greater costs and drain precious resources to cash strapped local municipalities. Beverly Tran

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 this legislation. Every foster care facility must

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, license revocation, and even shut down. But everyone

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