Attended the Rockwall Republican Men’s Club breakfast June 14 where State Rep. Jodie Laubenberg (R-Rockwall) called on about 80 members to contact Governor Rick Perry’s office right away to ask him to veto Senate Bill 1440, which will clear the way for CPS to arbitrarily enter homes and take children away from parents without a court order.
The legislation has already passed the House and Senate and is sitting on the Governor’s desk. It will become law unless he vetoes it before June 21, 2009.
The bill is unnecessary because there is already a mechanism in place to protect children in emergency situations, according to Laubenberg.
“I do not want to allow unchecked arbitrary access by CPS into Texans’ homes,” she said.
She cited the CPS seizure of 462 children living in the “Yearning for Zion” polygamist community in El Dorado TX as an example of what can go wrong if CPS is allowed arbitrary access. All but one of the children were returned after the CPS raid was later ruled “unwarranted” by the Texas Third Court of Appeals and Texas Supreme Court.
The whole incident was based upon several anonymous phone calls, without thorough investigation by CPS before seizing the children, as it turned out.
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That’s the problem – no investigation – that is required by law for CPS to receive funding from the Federal Government for the children that are removed illegally.
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2009/06/madden-expects-veto-of-bad-cps-bill.html
We will know by Sunday.
Thank you very much, Representative Laubenberg, for standing against SB 1440.
YOU rock Jodie!!!!! Great job. Hmmmm Palin/ Laubenberg….. Got my vote.
I also thank you, Representative Laubenberg, for standing against SB 1440. CPS has too much power already. The state should limit the power and authority CPS has. There should be a checks and balance system to make sure parents’ rights are not violated.
On behalf of the 465 children on the YFZ Ranch that were so traumatized by CPS and CASA, I want to personally Thank You for standing up for what is right and not throwing the Constitution of the U.S. into the toilet.
Bill Medvecky