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Civil Rights Attorney Shawn A. McMillan @attyshawn w/@RescueFosters and @did_Gi_no discussing CPS "If you're a human being you should be outraged...the way that the child protection system is being run... it's an outrage, and the taxpayers fund it" "It's a huge, huge industry" https://t.co/QyEG3VyqCN
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The speaker expresses outrage at the child protection system's mismanagement, funded by taxpayers. In a case against Los Angeles County, it was revealed that $2.2 billion was spent in 2016 alone. This amount was for one county in one year, highlighting a nationwide issue of excessive spending on a flawed system.
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Speaker 0: You know, whether you have kids or not, it's not even a parent should be outraged. It should be. If if you're a human being, you should be outraged. The way that the child protection system is being run. It it's it's an outrage, and the taxpayers fund it.
I can tell you in one of our cases we did against County of Los Angeles 2016, it was Duval versus County of Los Angeles. We we had discovery both on the county and on the state DCSS. And the the question was, how much money how much money are we spending every year on this jacked up system to go out and take kids, not, you know, have adequate investigations, then we put them in foster care, and we don't treat them properly. How much money? In 2016, just County of Los Angeles, $2,200,000,000 Oh my gosh.
That's one county. 1. One county. That's the problem. In 1 year.
So it's extrapolate that out over the entire country. How much money is that? That's insane. I I can't even believe that. So so it's a huge, huge
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"Licensed shelters and host homes in Washington had generally been required to notify parents within 72 hours when a minor came into their care. Under the new law, facilities can instead contact the state Department of Children, Youth and Families..." ⬇️ https://apnews.com/article/washington-transgender-health-care-minors-parents-296005ba7c084db94e241283067d2dff
Trans minors protected from parents under Washington law
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Minors seeking gender-affirming care in Washington will be protected from the intervention of estranged parents under a measure Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law Tuesday. The new law is part of a wave of legislation this year in Democratic-led states intended to give refuge amid a conservative movement in which lawmakers in other states have attacked transgender rights and limited or banned gender-affirming care for minors.
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