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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 499715" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>I sent to my 2 state reps from the jurisdiction I live in now at the GA offices, the state commission on youth at the GA, the dept of health profs (isn't that irony- they changed our MH dept to Behavioral health, yet psychologists, SWs, etc with licenses to do 'real' therapy fall under dept of health- yet another way to disguise MH issues), the director of Department of Juvenile Justice (she can pass it off to her IG if she wants - the way I look at it, she's the one responsible), the director of public safety who doubles as the leader of prisoner and juvenile offender re-entry initiative, and the two legislative reps who lead the committee on district courts, which work in the GA and lead the committee that advises district courts, including juvenile courts; also they work under the state supreme court for matters not involving typical appeals but in matters concerning district court rules and policies. I thought that was imporatant due to the vague line between juvie CSU/Department of Juvenile Justice and the local juvie courts. I have a bit of a problem with POs having more power than dss or equal power to a judge. I find it hard to believe that's the intent of the law.</p><p></p><p>The ombudsman I spoke to is the liason in Department of Juvenile Justice who a parent is supposed to call if there are grievances about a Department of Juvenile Justice facility- I called her last week because I thought she could point me in the right direction because I couldn't find a contact person or procedure when it's not a Department of Juvenile Justice facility I'm concerned about- it's CSU personnel. She told me they have none for that- she gave me the name of the Department of Juvenile Justice person in charge of all juvie CSU personnel but after thinking about that, I decided he's the one that should get fired, not contacted. When I looked up Department of Juvenile Justice's IG online, it says he's there to investigate abuse in facilties and things like that- so I went straight to the director. It is part of my beef that they have no one to investigate and oversee CSU personnel and hold them accountable- or no one is doing it.</p><p></p><p>Next on the list are the DOJ civil rights division (fed) and ACLU.</p><p></p><p>I kind of felt like I was wasting my time with these state people however, I reminded myself that 1) they need all the feedback a person will give so they can see how bad this situation is 2) maybe it will be another seed that leads to a change in state laws or cleaning house in Department of Juvenile Justice someday, and 3) I figured the fed gov reps would want to see I made some effort on the state level.</p><p></p><p>Fortunately, I can go straight to state level since difficult child is considered a ward of the state as being committed to state Department of Juvenile Justice. I have looked and looked for others on the state level but honestly, I don't think anyone in this state has the llabs to do anything.</p><p></p><p>Crazy- if you (or anyone else) can think of someone else or another agency that could help, please let me know.</p><p></p><p>I looked up the fed office for civil rights and that's actually under doj, then I called them and they told me since it is court officers that I feels has violated my and difficult child's rights, it falls under the criminal section of the civil rights division of DOJ. Additionally, she said it sounded like there might be violations re the fed funding they are getting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 499715, member: 3699"] I sent to my 2 state reps from the jurisdiction I live in now at the GA offices, the state commission on youth at the GA, the dept of health profs (isn't that irony- they changed our MH dept to Behavioral health, yet psychologists, SWs, etc with licenses to do 'real' therapy fall under dept of health- yet another way to disguise MH issues), the director of Department of Juvenile Justice (she can pass it off to her IG if she wants - the way I look at it, she's the one responsible), the director of public safety who doubles as the leader of prisoner and juvenile offender re-entry initiative, and the two legislative reps who lead the committee on district courts, which work in the GA and lead the committee that advises district courts, including juvenile courts; also they work under the state supreme court for matters not involving typical appeals but in matters concerning district court rules and policies. I thought that was imporatant due to the vague line between juvie CSU/Department of Juvenile Justice and the local juvie courts. I have a bit of a problem with POs having more power than dss or equal power to a judge. I find it hard to believe that's the intent of the law. The ombudsman I spoke to is the liason in Department of Juvenile Justice who a parent is supposed to call if there are grievances about a Department of Juvenile Justice facility- I called her last week because I thought she could point me in the right direction because I couldn't find a contact person or procedure when it's not a Department of Juvenile Justice facility I'm concerned about- it's CSU personnel. She told me they have none for that- she gave me the name of the Department of Juvenile Justice person in charge of all juvie CSU personnel but after thinking about that, I decided he's the one that should get fired, not contacted. When I looked up Department of Juvenile Justice's IG online, it says he's there to investigate abuse in facilties and things like that- so I went straight to the director. It is part of my beef that they have no one to investigate and oversee CSU personnel and hold them accountable- or no one is doing it. Next on the list are the DOJ civil rights division (fed) and ACLU. I kind of felt like I was wasting my time with these state people however, I reminded myself that 1) they need all the feedback a person will give so they can see how bad this situation is 2) maybe it will be another seed that leads to a change in state laws or cleaning house in Department of Juvenile Justice someday, and 3) I figured the fed gov reps would want to see I made some effort on the state level. Fortunately, I can go straight to state level since difficult child is considered a ward of the state as being committed to state Department of Juvenile Justice. I have looked and looked for others on the state level but honestly, I don't think anyone in this state has the llabs to do anything. Crazy- if you (or anyone else) can think of someone else or another agency that could help, please let me know. I looked up the fed office for civil rights and that's actually under doj, then I called them and they told me since it is court officers that I feels has violated my and difficult child's rights, it falls under the criminal section of the civil rights division of DOJ. Additionally, she said it sounded like there might be violations re the fed funding they are getting. [/QUOTE]
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