The State Of Florida Is Kidnapping Children

By 12-10-13 By

Raquel Okyay

The state of Florida has a Republican governor, Republican AG, Republican controlled legislature, what good has it done? Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero.
The Florida GOP are hypocrites. They have grown government dramatically, added intrusive, communist-type (without expiration date) laws to the rolls.
AG Bondi has simply forgotten what the Constitution means even though she pretends to support it. In fact, I have compelling evidence to show that Bondi is directing her police force and department of children and families to literally kidnap children from loving homes.
Is this a serious accusation? Yes of course it is. It’s a serious crime to steal children and it’s about time someone with power does something to STOP it. So far Bondi has failed to step-up to the plate, unfortunately.
The state of Florida is kidnapping children because the more children they have in state custody the more federal dollars are handed over to them. They use “excess” funds to balance the budget. So in other words, it’s more important to break up families and destroy lives to make money, than to actually protect children.

AG Bondi

“Each child in the state of Florida has a bounty on their head.” ~ former guardian ad litem volunteer

Editorials: On Giving DCF More Funding

We hope state lawmakers get serious about fixing problems in the Department of Children and Families. Protecting vulnerable children should be the priority of any society and an essential function of government.
The department’s failure has come to light with the horrifying news of the deaths of children who should have been protected by the state, not put at risk.
On Tuesday, the department’s interim secretary, Esther Jacobo, discussed with lawmakers a report by the Casey Family Programs, a private group she asked to review the deaths.
The Casey staff looked at 40 recent child deaths suspected to have been caused by abuse or neglect.
A disturbing aspect of the report was that a “number of babies in these families later died from asphyxia resulting from co-sleeping with parents under the influence of drugs or alcohol,” noted the Casey group.
The people given the responsibility to care for the most vulnerable were clearly unfit parents. Unfortunately, no one was watching.
Senators were told that family oversight was the problem. Christina Spudeas, executive director of the advocacy group Florida’s Children First, said quality-assurance staff has been cut by 72 percent.
While government spending continues to be scrutinized, we urge caution when it comes to cutting money budgeted to protect children.
We agree with professor Pam Graham, of Florida State University, who told senators that what is needed are well-trained, professional social workers dealing with troubled families, not cuts. Overworked social workers can’t perform effectively when they each have dozens of families to track.
It’s just asking for more trouble and more death.
Pensacola News Journal
http://www.news-press.com/article/20131111/OPINION/311110018/

Palm Beach County's New Anti-Corruption Inspector General Selected Sheryl Steckler

By Jennifer Sorentrue Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Updated: 7:53 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011
Posted: 5:50 p.m. Wednesday, May. 5, 2010  
WEST PALM BEACH — The woman responsible for ferreting out corruption for the state's Department of Children and Families was chosen today to serve as Palm Beach County's first-ever inspector general.
Sheryl Steckler, 48, was one of eight finalists for the newly created post, which will watchdog over the kind of waste and misdeeds that have sent five local elected officials to federal prison.
A seven-member selection panel consisting of the county's ethics commission, State Attorney Michael McAuliffe and Public Defender Carey Haughwout chose Steckler after two days of interviews.
The selection marked one of the final steps in a year-long effort to rid the county of its corruption-tainted image.
"I think it is meaningful benchmark of success," McAuliffe said after the selection. "…We are on are way. What a difference a year makes."
County attorneys plan to meet with Steckler Thursday morning to begin negotiating the terms of her contract. County commissioners will have to sign off on the contract before it becomes official.
Steckler has spent seven years working as the inspector general for DCF in Tallahassee, where she oversees a staff of as many as 150 employees and makes $107,000.
Steckler could not be reached for comment Wednesday. She graduated from Twin Lakes High School in West Palm Beach. In her application for the post, she pointed to her decades of management experience and work with the National Association of Inspectors General, where she currently serves as second vice president.

"My responsibility has always been to enhance the public trust in government," Steckler wrote. "My integrity and strong work ethic have never wavered, even in the most difficult times."
DCF Secretary George Sheldon praised Steckler's work for the department, saying she has been "very aggressive" in ferreting out "all kinds of issues." She has also worked to close loopholes that have led to fraud and waste, he said.
"When you have 4,500 employees you are going to get some bad apples," Sheldon said. "What you have to do is put some systems in place that identify when it does happen without putting the good employees in jeopardy."
In Palm Beach County, Steckler will lead a newly created inspector general unit. She will have the power to conduct audits and require reports from all county offices. She will also have unrestricted access to county records.
County commissioners agreed to create the inspector general post last year, after a grand jury convened by McAuliffe recommended the county enact tougher ethics laws. The inspector general and ethics commission topped that list.
Last month, the county's ethics commission chose Alan S. Johnson, the county's top corruption prosecutor, to serve as its executive director.

"It is hard for me to believe that we are where we are today," said attorney David Baker, who helped create a coalition to push for county ethics reform.
Baker said the coalition is also working on amendments to the county's charter that would allow the inspector general to investigate cities and towns, and not just county offices.
"There is still a lot that the new inspector general and the new executive director are going to have to do," Baker said. "They will need some help."

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/countys-new-anti-corruption-inspector-general-selected-672448.html  

Alan S. Johnson

Governor Rick Scott Which man are you going to be the man that stands up or the man who allows evil to prosper?

Rick Scott,

Department of Children and Families–DCF has devastated and destroyed hundreds of thousands of families in America, leaving a trail of broken hearts, broken dreams, and shattered childhoods.

Rather than helping families, government agents have used unconstitutional laws  to rip children away from their loving parents, break asunder God-given, natural, parent-child bonds, and adopt the children of the grieving out to others who profit financially with large monthly adoption subsidy payments.

DCF must be stopped!  We must work tirelessly to inform the public of this very dangerous travesty of justice. We must keep faith knowing that if there is a God, there is an answer and a way to end this heartache.

DCF Agents – need to  come to their  senses! Family destruction on false or trivial grounds is wrong, reprehensible, and and inhumane.

Fosters – need to be aware that for the money they get they are holding much-loved children away from their grieving families while the parents are forced to perform a service plan that is anything but a service to them. I call this hostage holding for the government. This is not kindness – to help misguided government agents destroy family relationships and break loving bonds.

Governor Scott – I ask that you now let the children of the innocent return to their homes where they are truly valued, adored, and loved by the parents God gave them.
Family rights are God-given rights. And they should not be ignored or postponed. Every moment these loving parents and children spend separated from one another is a torment beyond what anyone should ever have to bear.

It is unworthy of human dignity to allow this terrorism and torture of families to go on without saying something, speaking out, and trying to make a change.

Governor Scott you can be the man that makes a difference in the lives of thousands of families, you can be the man that saves thousands of children, you can be a man that stands up. All it takes for evil to prosper is for a good man to do nothing. Which man are you going to be the man that stands up or the man who allows evil to prosper?

Send your thoughts about DCF abuse of power to Govenor Scott today!
rick.scott@eog.myflorida.com

Please go to the site below and sign petition.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/florida-department-of-child-and-families-dcf-power-abuse/
Thank you

Randy Kluge