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The attached article which concerns the San Diego jury report of the San Diego Child Protective Services is astonishing. It is astonishing in that it perfectly describes the current state of Loudoun County Child Protective Services today. Incredibly, the article was written in 1992. More than two decades later, Loudoun CPS suffers from the same issues.
The more poignant points are below.
The problems with Loudoun CPS are numerous, it stems from Sandra Glenney.
- Capping a seven-month investigation, the grand jury said the county Department of Social Services has developed a ”mind-set” that abuse and neglect are everywhere, a powerful bias that too frequently tears families apart unnecessarily rather than working to keep families together whenever possible.
- The current system, ”characterized as it is by confidential files, closed courts, gag orders and statutory immunity, has isolated itself to a degree unprecedented in our system of jurisprudence and ordered liberties,” the grand jury said. In addition, the system resists external criticism as ”inappropriate,” the panel said..
- That investigation is currently done by a social worker, who ”rarely tries to find information favorable or evidence (that exonerates) parents,” the panel said.
