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Bill targeting FLDS larded with unintended consequences

The Lege will revisit the Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup this morning, the Austin Statesman reports:The House Human Services Committee will meet at 10:30 a.m. in E2.016 to look at how the state handled last year?s child-welfare operation at a West Texas ranch owned by a polygamist sect. The Statesman?s Corrie MacLaggan wrote yesterday on the Postcards blog, ?Testimony is expected from people invited by the panel, including Anne Heiligenstein, commissioner of the Department of Family and Protective Services; Willie Jessop, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Scott McCown, executive director of the Center for Public Policy Priorities; and Kevin Dietz of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, which represented some of the FLDS mothers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).