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Will Lege revisit Family Code after the Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup?

This post from Kurt Schulzke over at Contraries (formerly I Perceive) questions whether the Texas Family Code may allow authorities to too easily remove children without cause, as happened in the Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup.The fact that appellate courts threw out most of those cases might lead one to think the law was fairly plain, but instead it was state agency actors and local jurists who engaged in such sweeping overreach. Maybe so. But there were many problematic aspects to that absurdist incident and the courts only ruled against CPS on one of them. It's still troublesome that CPS would even think they could take so many kids without the slenderest reed of specific evidence about their families, all based on what turned out to be a hoax phone call...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 11, 2008 (boomark / email).