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| Date: From: Subject: | 2/16/2005 1:09:01 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Wyoming--Calls Needed Now To Protect Parental Rights |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== February 16, 2005 Wyoming--Calls Needed Now To Protect Parental Rights Dear HSLDA members and friends: We need your calls now! Senate File 39 is scheduled to be voted on tomorrow, February 17, 2005 on the House Floor. This bill includes HSLDA's amendment requiring social workers to inform those being investigated of the specific allegations made against them. However, there is one problem, and we need your help to solve it before this bill is signed into law. The House Judiciary Committee amended this bill on Tuesday, February 15, and reduced the rights of parents whose children have been taken into temporary protective custody by the government. The bill, as amended, now requires officials to "make reasonable efforts, WHEN IT IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD, to inform the parent... that the child has been taken into temporary protective custody" [emphasis added]. This is a problem. Imagine how you would feel if you left a teenager alone at home while you went to the store and you returned to an empty house. Under the current version of SF 39 a social worker would decide whether it would be in the child's best interest to inform you about why your child was missing. This is intolerable. Representative Watt will offer an amendment on the House floor to correct this problem. His amendment will replace the current language in SF 39 with a requirement that officials "make reasonable efforts, UNLESS ORDERED OTHERWISE BY A COURT WITH JURISDICTION OVER THE MATTER, to inform the parent... that the child has been taken into temporary protective custody." This amendment will ensure that courts, not social workers, decide whether a parent is informed about their own children. ACTION REQUESTED 1) Please call your own Representative and urge him or her to vote "Yes" on the Watt Amendment to SF 39 when it comes to the House floor. Please give your Representative this message, "Parents need to know where their children are. Don't let social workers take children from their homes without letting parents know why they are missing!" To find your own Representative, go to HSLDA's Legislative Toolbox http://www.hslda.org/toolbox/ . Sincerely, Scott Somerville HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> How long are you in for? Some families are facing what seems like a lifelong commitment to homeschooling, with children at both ends of the spectrum-some graduating and some just reaching school age. If you're going to be "in" for a while, consider a lifetime membership with HSLDA. 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