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...

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...

I guess Sen. Cherry just doesn't get it yet. If this makes it through comittee and is passed she should be the first to run a test on using the new rules.

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...

In essence, this is a wonderful and novel resolution. Now, allow me to expound upon this. The Attorney General has been granted and federally funded the Medicaid Fraud Controll Unit. The state has also augmented the statutory provisions of the Mediaid False Claims Act, under much dismay and limited powers...

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

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...