CPS: The New SS in Texas

...if SB 1064 is signed into law.

This bill is on the governors desk NOW and being considered without media attention and without public debate. Of course we all support kids that suffer true abuse- but sadly many kids do even worse in foster care.
If this bill becomes law- CPS can take children out of a loving home on a false allegation without court order. The parents would have no legal protection if this evil UNCONSTITUTIONAL bill becomes law.

excerpt from "Right in Texas"

...the bill was substituted in committee for a very different SB 1064, which was passed out of the Senate and sent to the House. The new SB 1064 gave the court authority to force parents to give CPS access to the child and/or transport the child for "interview, examination and investigation," without a court hearing or notice to the parent. Worst of all, the language in the current statute that requires CPS to prove "good cause shown" was stricken. Thus this bill would allow CPS, during an investigation in which the parents would not waive their 4th amendment rights, entrance into their home, access to medical or mental health records of their children or transportation of the child, on the simple filing of an affidavit by a CPS worker with no hearing or opportunity for the parents or their legal counsel to present their case.

http://www.rightintexas.com/

Think about it- a government agency with a history of corruption would have the right to take kids away from parents on the word of the caseworker alone. As someone who used to work in social services- I am utterly horrified and you should be too. There is also, apparently, financial incentives to take kids out of homes and put them into the adoption system.

Source: http://www.rightintexas.com/