Elusive Justice

• A party for the city of Lexington

  Questapalooza! [...]
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  Posted: August 25, 2009, 10:20pm EDT
  by elusivejustice

• Personal Soap Box: Insight Communications, Inc & the “bundling” trap

  Number of comments: 9
  First of all, Insight is engaging in poor business practices in that they effectively punish people who become loyal customers. The second lesson then is that our reluctance to change is our enemy. The third lesson is that when a company gets large enough, they no longer have to reckon [...]
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  Posted: January 17, 2009, 2:06pm EST
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• Best Practice in Dependency, Abuse & Neglect Matters

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  I am writing this to correct any idea that I inadvertently promoted that being adversarial with the Cabinet is the way to win your case (I mean adversarial in the sense of ones attitude rather than in the sense that the court process is an adversarial process). Those criticisms are [...]
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  Posted: January 02, 2009, 9:00pm EST
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• Stall Tactic - Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights

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  Kentucky sets forth the grounds for a court involuntarily terminating parental rights in KRS 625.090. The statute basically gives the essential elements, all of which much be proved by the heightened standard of “clear and convincing” evidence: the child has been abused or neglected (and there are three wasy to [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2008, 3:06pm EDT
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  Posted: August 30, 2008, 5:49pm EDT
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• Accountability by the courts

  A decsion rendered by the Kentucky Court of Appeals on May 16, 2008 reveals that the appellate courts are prepared to hold the Cabinet for Health and Family Services accountable in termination of parental rights cases. There are very few published opinions in Kentucky reversing involuntary terminations initiated by the [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2008, 7:16pm EDT
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• Crisis brewing

  The Fayette County office of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Protection and Permanency, is already in crisis mode and headings towards disaster. According to one source, there are only a dozen investigating workers and, due to budget constraints, none are being hired. This means a either referrals that [...]
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  Posted: July 23, 2008, 9:42pm EDT
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• Cabinet practice has huge unintended (or is it?) consequence

  Number of comments: 5
  A routine practice by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in Fayette County seems innocuous to the untrained eye, but it has a huge unintended consequence for certain parents. I wonder if this consequence is actually unintended, but absent confirmation, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. Although [...]
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  Posted: May 15, 2008, 6:34pm EDT
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• The Irony of No Child Left Behind (and Untested)

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  The Herald Leader ran this story about one ex-Principal, Peggy Petilli, allegedly (and believably) being driven to do questionable to downright crappy things to bring up her school’s test scores. The schools my own children go to focus so much on testing really high and the teaching is incredibly focused [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2008, 8:55pm EDT
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• You can fight City (or State) Hall, Ms Hall:

  I’ve been wanting to comment on the antics of Cabinet for Health and Family Services’ Service Region Coordinator, Grace Akers, for some time. You can find out more about the events here and here from the Herald-Leader. Basically, Jami Hall, a social services worker from Jessamine Count cooperated with an [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2008, 8:45pm EDT
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• New Christian Legal Society forming:

  A chapter of the Christian Legal Society is forming in the Bluegrass area of Kentucky. For more information about this forming CLS chapter, contact Gregory A. Napier in Lexington, Kentucky. Integrating one’s walk of faith with their practice of law, so that they are one and the same, will make [...]
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  Posted: March 23, 2008, 5:13pm EDT
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• �Reasonable efforts� has real meaning

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  A recent decision of the Court of Appeals illustrates a an omission of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services that seems all too common. In the unpublished opinion, M.G.F. II v. CHFS, 2006-CA-002093-ME (March 21, 2008)(NOT to be published), the Court remanded an involuntary termination of parental rights case [...]
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  Posted: March 23, 2008, 5:06pm EDT
  by elusivejustice

• Off Topic: The silver lining of pharmaceuticals in water

  George W. Bush goal of cutting $15 billion from Medicaid expenditures may be easier than he imaginied. Apparently medications are increasingly being found in our drinking water . These are apparently chemicals that pass unused through the humans taking the medications. Water companies are claiming the pharmaceuticals are in such [...]
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  Posted: March 10, 2008, 6:47pm EDT
  by elusivejustice

• Improving Child Protection in Kentucky (Moment of Silence) postscript:

  Number of comments: 5
  I followed up regarding my concerns, posted here, about Representative Stan Lee’s sweeping and innaccurate portrayal of ALL the family court judges in Fayette County being against ALL of HB 151. I have confirmed from a very knowledgeable and reliable source that ALL of the Fayette family court judges were, [...]
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  Posted: March 09, 2008, 10:24pm EDT
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• Improving Child Protection in Kentucky Postscript (or - a moment of silence, please)

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  The title of this article from today’s Herald Leader was a bit too prophetic to be accidental: “Child protection revisions all but dead“. The impetus for this bill began back with the Office of Inspector General’s report many long months ago. Let’s parse through this article: A bill that would have [...]
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  Posted: March 06, 2008, 8:16pm EST
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• Systemic apathy and the attorney�s charge

  Apathy is the predominate risk with judicial venues where the majority of defendants are guilty of what is alleged against them, such as criminal court or dependency, neglect and abuse court. This systemic apathy leads to the few truly innocent people who come through those courts to be shuffled along [...]
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  Posted: February 22, 2008, 9:58pm EST
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• The Cabinet takes a stand for the �best interest of the child (umm - no) . . . Cabinet/Worker�

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  I try to take at least 24 hours to calm down over a topic before I write a post about it. This time I took about 96 hours. I recently had a conversation with Cabinet worker’s in Fayette County. The topic was reunification services to a parent whose child was [...]
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  Posted: February 17, 2008, 7:22pm EST
  by elusivejustice

• An example of resistance to change:

  I encourage everyone to read this full article on an interview with Professor Robert G. Lawson in the Courier Journal. Bob Lawson is that rare individual who is willing to go against the popular tide and critical examine a position most take for granted and it was an honor to [...]
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  Posted: February 17, 2008, 6:42pm EST
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• The enemy, resistance

  Number of comments: 2
  Its an obvious truth that people resist change. Systems resist change too. Resistance for the sake to resisting change is the enemy to individuals and to systems. We shut out possibilities and shut down creativity by resisting new perspectives and ideas. This leads to decreased justice. The image that comes [...]
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  Posted: February 17, 2008, 6:21pm EST
  by elusivejustice

• John Adams said it better

  Thanks to the US Post Office, I found the following quote that said my point in my prior post far more concisely: “Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.” John Adams, 1765. [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2008, 6:07pm EST
  by elusivejustice