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ABA, APA, AFCC, AAML, . . and others: Reconceptualize This! [Some Ohio Councils, Commissions, and Headlines, Incl. Basic Links][Chosen to represent 2012 in my 2017 Retrospective, includes its own]
ABA, APA, AFCC, AAML, . . and others: Reconceptualize This! [Some Ohio Councils, Commissions, and Headlines, Incl. Basic Links][Chosen to represent 2012 in my 2017 Retrospective, includes its own] [Words in italics added during 2017 update (adding an intro with images)/formatting cleanup]. {With case-sensitive Short-link ending “-101”}
So here’s the deal: I have been reviewing early (January)-year posts back to 2009 and was looking for a representative one, or at most two, for each year.
The “Reconceptualize This!” phrase came from having observed how hard certain types of professionals, and their associations, in their conferences (and publications, presentations) etc. were working to “reconceptualize” assault & battery behavior, and the other criminal behavior that accompanies (1) domestic violence and (2) child abuse, and (3) other related felonious behaviors – as something else.
ANYTHING but calling it what it is, and attributing cause to the actual perp, as opposed to say, his or her spouse (for lack of communications skills), society (for prejudice against, in this case, his race or gender), or his lack of a biological father in the home growing up (i.e., blame it on his single mother, or conditions which discouraged women from getting and staying married when they have children), and so forth.
“Coincidentally” in the process of reconceptualizing the criminal laws defining what is and is not a crime in the country as needing some serious behavioral modification makeovers for actually holding perps and lawbreakers responsible for their own actions, the presence of bad childhoods, missing daddies, difficult divorces, or poverty, notwithstanding, [the language also changes.]
So, in this post, you’ll find its own internal retrospective — and along the way naming MANY key entities, organizations, and personalities still at work in the same lines of work, that is, to make the justice system work for their mutual, private purposes, and calling it the public interest.
Year 2009: Development of a Framework for Identifying and Explicating the Context of Domestic Violence in Custody Cases and its Implications for Custody Determinations
Year, 2008: Reconceptualizing Child Custody: Past, Present, and Future—Lawyers and Psychologists* Working Together A Continuing Education Conference (in other words, basically ABA & APA memberships) (Chicago)[*see “notes2008 below the quote”]
Year 2007: Changing the Culture of Custody (Pennsylvania)
(more on this, below, in fact most of today’s [1/22/2012]post is on this).
Year, 2006: Rethinking Domestic Violence (Donald Dutton, book, Canada) [**See “notes2006 below the quote”]
Year 2005: Batterers’ Intervention Programs still going strong:
Year, 2002: Batterers As Fathers: Rethinking and Reconceptualizing Policy and Practice (book, Lundy Bancroft/Jay Silverman)
[I commented] ~ ~ ~ How many people can actually “reconceptualize” a world in which the habit of battering automatically precludes the habit of parenting, of participating IN a family, and of having anything at all to discuss in the custody courts?Not going to happen. Too much profit in the less-effective alternatives & case-churning.The truth of the matter is, too many believe that the sky would fall, government wouldn’t work right, and the economy would go under IF men’s (AND women’s including mothers, stepmothers, and new girlfriends) rights to be around children, or romantic partners, would CEASE, QUICKLY and PERMANENTLY – — over the crime of what would be a crime if perpetrated upon a stranger.[My 2018Oct18 thought added, though it’s not a new thought]… In effect, preserving the “right-to-abuse” and commit crimes upon relatives & family members as basic and intrinsic to the concept of “FAMILY,” and infringing upon said “right (of men) to abuse (esp. women & children)” as a true human rights outrage, while the abuse itself, apparently, isn’t REALLY so outrageous…But, it not being politically correct to say this outright, ways and rationales to “work around” the system are found. Distractions — and professionalizing “father engagement” qualifies — abound.
[**”notes2008 below the quote”]
In moving this summary to the top of the page, I unearthed more information from the 2008 reference, screen-printed and linked/captioned it, included more from 2006, and threw in just for good measure two screenprints from the “Batterers’ Intervention Programming link to BISCMI.org, a situation and organization (because of what it’s doing and who shows up at its conferences!) I’ve been paying attention to over time, and have done some major drill-downs on conference attendees. Particularly when I found the recently-renamed “Family Justice Center Alliance,” which public/private collusion in combination with “theDuluthModel” and the associated DV cartel has done more to set up women for the take-down than, perhaps, the violent men they were fleeing in individual situations, generation after generation, including up to today.
That model for the uninitiated isn’t just “globalist” it’s socialist. FYI not all women protesting personal violence wish to become socialists simply to escape the same, and not all women who are adamantly more in favor of the US Constitution then a UN-based world order in which national boundaries, for almost any key subject matter (cause, values) area just doesn’t matters, are necessarily avid, say Donald Trump followers.
In fact if there’s anything women in, for example, my situation MIGHT wish to do is to quit being forced to join cults in order to survive other cults, and I’m referring in my case to the so-called Christian ones in particular. (Another flavor there is just how much Unification Church, then and now, still permeates what many may think is actually some version of right-wing Christianity…) We would LIKE to live peaceably in our countries, wherever that is (and mine happens to be the USA) and from that perspective have a good understanding of What The F _ _ _ our country (adjust according to which is yours, respectively) is doing with its tax receipts from our work energies and wages over a lifetime, and as disbursing “services” throughout the land, several of them of the compulsory (if not entirely necessary) variety — and particularly when faced with women seeking personal AND social change in accord with, not in utter disregard of, the laws of the land.
So, I moved my expanded version (of above summary) and several screenprints below it, to:
[Who’s Been Covertly — in widely dispersed conferences and publications — insisting we (in the USA)] Reconceptualize This! (cf. my Jan 22, 2012 post and 2017 updates) (<= This post title’s shortlink ends -5SI)
[**”notes2006 below the quote”]
BUT: A few notes on this one: I replaced an image in the post for this $87 (hardback/ only $37 paperback) book

See URL for more description of this title. Donald Dutton is a professor of psychology at UBritish Columbia as of date of this abstract (it also has a book TOC).
published by University of British Columbia Press (UBC Press), self-described as:
UBC Press | thought that counts
The University of British Columbia Press is Canadaí’s leading social sciences publisher. With an international reputation for publishing high-quality works of original scholarship, our books draw on and reflect cutting-edge research, pushing the boundaries of academic discourse in innovative directions. Each year UBC Press publishes seventy new titles in a number of fields, including Aboriginal studies, Asian studies, Canadian history, environmental studies, gender and women’s studies, geography, health and food studies, law, media and communications, military and security studies, planning and urban studies, and political science. UBC Press publishes many series (etc.)
From this book abstract:
… the stated aim of refuting what he describes as feminist “dogma preservation” 2 in the field.** He seeks to dislodge the perceived dominance of this perspective by providing his own “more enlightened” 3 and “dispassionate” viewpoint, one which disputes the relevance of gender to domestic violence and foregrounds a gender-neutral and exclusively psychological account of its causes. Dutton argues that because personality disorders have not been acknowledged as the real cause of domestic violence, legal responses to domestic violence have been misguided and ineffective.Dutton extends these two primary themes throughout the entire book. Dutton designates the first seven chapters to explaining why feminist accounts that identify gender and gender inequality as relevant to domestic violence are wrong (DID I mention, he’s a tenured psychology professor there?)
https://drdondutton.com/about/ His PhD in Social Psychology was in 1970, from Univ. of Toronto, and his work experience 1973-1995 includes court-ordered “Assaultive Husbands” therapy.
From 1979 to 1995, he served as a therapist in the Assaultive Husbands Project, a court mandated treatment program for men convicted of wife assault. In the course of providing therapy for these men, he drew on his background in both social and clinical psychology to develop a psychological model for intimate abusiveness.
He has published over 122 peer reviewed journal articles and 10 books, including the Domestic Assault of Women, The Batterer and The Abusive Personality.
Dr. Dutton has served as an expert witness in criminal trials involving family violence, including his work for the prosecution in the O.J. Simpson trial.
Note — the off-ramped/off-shored post has more information connecting Dr. Dutton to AFCC (June 2016 conference in Seattle, Washington) and showing in the same conference, more organizations listed below here, and which I have been blogging for several years. This is important information to know, and I hope to publish it soon and that readers will take time to consider what the situation really signifies, particularly as I’ve already blogged, in 2016 as I recall, “Outflanking National Sovereignty through Functionalism” and “Accounting Literacy Matters: Cause-based doesn’t.”
I am putting so much time into this particular update (so far, I believe three extra posts have branched off from it) because it really did identify — now FIVE YEARS AGO — many key players, contradictions in their mutual claims, networks among the various players, and that the overall programming intent, collectively, was indeed to decriminalize domestic violence, while setting up women for failure in believing that the many advocacy groups were still thinking or acting independently enough, and could be trusted to help us more than, sometimes, temporarily
…and after that, sometimes women might make it free long enough to struggle in the family courts for YEARS, and others, they might not — having gotten simply “offed” (or their kids) shortly after filing.
This is still happening, according to social media reporting on the headlines, something I could no longer stomach, as a survivor, doing and was not primarily about in the first place on this blog, either. ///LGH Feb 13, 2017.
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Speaking of CCA profits, Franklin County, Ohio, Judge Allows Sale of Five Prisons: Three Out-of-State Bidders. Speaking of Prisons, Ohio’s Fatherhood ‘InsideOut Dad’ Curricula [Publ. Sept. 13, 2011, Reformatted June. 6, 2022].
Post Title: Speaking of CCA profits, Franklin County, OH Judge Allows Sale of 5 Prisons: Three Out-of-State Bidders. Speaking of Prisons, Ohio’s Fatherhood ‘InsideOut Dad’ Curricula [Publ. Sept. 13, 2011, Reformatted June. 6, 2022]. (case-sensitive short-link ends “-Ro”). About 10,400 words; many of those words are quotes describing fatherhood programs.
Title (and overall formatting, especially margins) adjusted June 6, 2022. Why? Because the state of Ohio just keeps on coming up in the news for placing obstacle after obstacle in the paths of women, especially mothers seeking to exit abusive relationships: even if the abusers are in prison (search “HB 508” in 2022), yet somehow advocates (sic) reporting on this almost never mention it’s historic, executive-branch-based “Fatherhood Commission,” its “office of faith-based initiatives” (related) with similar proclivities, and or the characteristics and nature of what does exist of domestic violence networks — and how ‘fatherhood-drenched” and influenced they can be, also coordinated statewide.
But I wrote this post over a decade ago. This is no re-write, just a reformat, adding borders, insuring a white (not sickly, pale-green — the default unless I reset it with every post) background, and the post title and above shortlink protocol, which I adopted much later in this blog. The post could use even more clean-up, but this is a start in case I refer to it again, or Tweet it, etc.
//LGH June 6, 2022.
Speaking of Correction Corporations of America [Note: rebranded now as CoreCivic.com, still based in Tennessee], remember, I blogged once on “The Business of Detention” which appears to be an excellent investigative project:

The Business of Detention (Cracking Down on Immigration and Locking Up Profits) (2008 SXSW Interactive Web Award Finalist (etc.) [LGH post shortlink ending “-Ro” publ. 9/13/2011]
and Corrections Corporation of America and political lobbying, which did produce profits:
To complete the seamless connections between CCA and its federal funders, the company has hired former government officials to head key programs.
CCA’s Senior Vice President Mike Quinlan is credited with obtaining its credibility among federal clients after coming to the company with a 22-year career in public sector corrections and serving as Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons from 1987 to 1992.
“The collective corrections experience of CCA’s operations and management team, much of it gained during distinguished careers in federal or state corrections systems, is one of the most impressive in the country,” said Quinlan on the company’s website.
In 2004, after nearly 25 years with the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Kim Porter joined CCA as Senior Director of Federal Customer Relations. Porter’s primary responsibility is to manage CCA’s relationship with ICE. Anthony Odom came on board to manage CCA’s relations with USMS after he retired in 2004 from a 32-year career with the agency.
CCA’s general counsel, Gustavus Puryear IV, could give the revolving door another turn. Puryear made headlines this year when President Bush nominated him for a federal judge seat in the Middle District of Tennessee, where CCA is headquartered. Puryear has worked as a speech writer for Vice President Dick Cheney. He testified during a Senate hearing that he would recuse himself from cases involving the company.
Among the politicians strongly connected with CCA is Tennessee’s Lamar Alexander. This listing service of the top 10, top 50 (etc.) richest Congressmen & women, shows him at #24.
A browse through this list shows clearly that among these wealthy, next to ZERO of them got that way through jobs. They have real estate, they have stocks, and some of the younger members seem to have holdings (or run business) involved in technology, which seems smart as it is EVERYwhere.
Others married Rockefeller relatives, etc.
Topping the list is Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts in 2010. This talks about their losses. Despite those losses, they are Congresspeople, often with spouses (and assets in the name of those spouses) beneficiaries of family trusts and “blind trusts.” They vote on things such as how society will look for people who have none of these options, including where incarcerated family members may be dwelling, and who is handling how to get profits from THAT company.
This is from 2009 [“rollcall.com/congress…”]
24. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)
$12.13(that’s million)
The Tennessee Senator remains financially steady, reporting a slight 2 percent dip in his minimum net worth in 2008.
Alexander reported the sale of at least $1.5 million in stock of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, a national workplace child care services provider. The sale included stock Alexander previously valued at $500,000 to $1 million, as well as stocks held by his wife previously valued at “over $1 million.”
The Senator continues to own $5 million to $25 million of stock in Processed Foods Corp., a Knoxville-based company where he served on the board prior to his election to the Senate in 2002. His wife also owns “over $1 million” in company stock.
The Alexanders also list numerous real estate holdings, including commercial buildings and undeveloped properties, such as a Nantucket, Mass., plot that Alexander values at $1 million to $5 million, which his wife also lists as an asset valued at “over $1 million.”
By Contrast, the 57-year old Sen. Mark Harmon, a freshman legislator, ranked #5 in 2009. Just for information:
5. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.)
$72.37 million
The Virginia Senator lands on the highest rung among the 11 freshman lawmakers who joined the 50 wealthiest Members of Congress.
Warner made his fortune as a co-founder of Nextel telecommunications company and via an investment in Columbia Capital.
Among his assets, Warner is the beneficiary of the MRW Trust, which initially served as a blind trust after his election to the Virginia governor’s office in 2001 until 2006. The fund includes a money market account valued at $5 million to $25 million, as well as numerous city and state bonds.
Nonetheless, Warner reported nearly $19 million less in personal wealth than he did in his previous financial disclosure form filed as a candidate ahead of the 2008 elections.
Warner reported $9 million less in U.S. Treasury notes than he did as a candidate. He also reduced the value of two investment funds, Pointer LP and Signature Financial Management, both of which dropped from the $5 million to $25 million category to the $1 million to $5 million column.
In addition, Warner reports holdings in three investment partnerships worth $5 million to $25 million each.
Co-founded Nextel. Investment. Set up as a beneficiary of a blind trust (the trust spins of interest or other income, obviously). That it has city and state bonds means the city and state owe the trust money at interest; that’s what (as I understand the term) BONDS are. Also Treasury notes, and investment partnerships. He’s a Harvard grad, no military duty …..After losing $19 million, he still ranks at #5. He’s married with three children.
Now remember those women in the Chowchilla (or wherever) prison system, as reported in 2000, that may not have $5.00 and if they need more than 5 sanitary napkins (did anyone say tampons?) per month, may have to sell themselves for sex to get some more. This may be tricky when rape (not actually paying with bartered goods for services) is already clearly a problem in prisons, and many women who got to prison had experienced abuse before getting there, possibly related to their drug habits, not that it’s an excuse.
(Sorry, I can’t resist). “Roll Call” this August 15 (by Amanda Becker) shows the Bachmanns (as in Michelle Bachmann) with about $2.8 million:
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann has assets worth up to $2.8 million, the largest of which are the building housing her husband’s psychotherapy clinic and a family farm, according to disclosure forms she filed late Friday.
Anyone ever think about tracking the real estate in which family law business is transacted? I know I have…..
What if women’s prison was in Ohio? So here’s Corrections Corporation of America, that invested lobbying and has former prison board employees on its board:
Well, here they are again.
Ohio to Proceed With Sale of Five Prisons
After Judge Denies Delay Request
By Mark Niquette – Aug 31, 2011 1:32 PM PT(THIS IS THE ENTIRE ARTICLE):Ohio will proceed with its plan to sell five prisons after a county judge denied a request today for a temporary restraining order to stop the sale.
The Rehabilitation and Correction Department scheduled a news conference for tomorrow in Columbus to announce the contract awards, the department said in a release.
“We believe our process is sound,” Carlo LoParo, a spokesman for the department, said by telephone from Columbus.
ProgressOhio, a Columbus nonprofit group that describes itself as a “progressive voice for Ohio citizens,” filed a lawsuit to block the sale on grounds it violated the state constitution.
Judge Patrick E. Sheeran of Franklin County Common Pleas Court declined to issue a restraining order and set a hearing for Sept. 13 in Columbus to consider legal arguments.
“Neither the selection of bidders nor the awarding of a contract will constitute irreparable harm for purposes of this motion,” Sheeran wrote in his 16-page opinion.
Ohio wants to sell five prisons, including one that’s closed and two that are privately operated, to raise an estimated $200 million to help balance its budget.
Three companies submitted bids in June to buy and operate the facilities, according to the correction department. They are: Nashville-based Corrections Corp. of America Inc., Geo Group Inc. (GEO) of Boca Raton, Florida, and Management and Training Corp. of Centerville,Utah.
I turn, You turn, We all (must) turn to “Kids’ Turn” (and spinoffs)…per AFCC.. [Orig. Publ. May 23, 2011, #2 of 2, same-day].
[Title, short-link, background-color, borders and some tags added Sept. 30, 2019 because I’m linking to this older post..//LGH]
Yumm….. More goodies in the search to solve this problem, including why does the SFTC (That’s SF Trial Courts) have a LIEN on Kids’ Turn, which is constantly seeking more donors so poor kids can consume its services? (Richer ones, there’s a probably no-cap? sliding scale……)
How many mental health professionals is it possible to squeeze into one court case? And how is it done?
Ideally, as many as possible — one after another, after another. There is sure to be a need for them, given that the entire concept of mental health in the family law system is an oxymoron (see the word “law”).
Of course the family law system got its jumpstart with mental health professionals in alliance with legal professionals, somewhere shortly after women go the vote (but before all states had ratified it). The longer the system exists (generation after generation) the more mental health problems there are guaranteed to occur, given the source of them is the practitioner’s cognitive dissonance with state law (for example, against child abuse, child stealing, or valiant statements that there is a rebuttable presumption against custody going to batterers. Or, for that matter, child abusers. It’s a few steps away from fingerpainting — with the paint jars being the jargon used by various fields, which end up generally speaking in one big sticky mess.
Of course, you’re not supposed to see them at play behind closed doors, but since the advent of the Internet (which helps the conferences occur, obviously — and the curricula get disseminated — I’ll show how in a bit here) it’s also fun to track ’em down and catch’em in the act. Like my last post did with AB 2263, an attempt to legislate Kids’ Turn (ONLY) for a Judicial Council sponsored (public payments, I’m sure) analysis of how effective Kids’ Turn — excuse me, “programs that provide services to children undergoing divorce” (or whatever they called it to cover up that the original meaning intended was simply a nonprofit group brainstormed by — you guessed it — family law judges, etc.– this one in particular).
Well Gray Davis vetoed even the sanitized version of let’s build a LEGISLATIVE pipeline from this group to the entire divorcing population (Parental) of California — and the world, but we can start it here — and stick someone else, like taxpayers — with the bill. That was back in 2002.
Did that stop the idea? Heck no! I found the 48th Annual AFCC conference (Kids’ Turn is self-identified as an AFCC member. I guess a nonprofit can be a member of an association of court professionals (judges, commissioners and so forth) with mental health professionals with attorneys, etc.)
So, how IS it done? (other than out of the ready earshot of a court litigant, namely, parent in a custody battle).
(1)
FIRST OF ALL: FORM RAPID DEPLOYMENT UNITS — OF ONE JD, ONE Ph.D. (mental health, what else?) and one MSW or LCSW, or LMFT. Each has a specific purpose. Right now, we find this combo in pre-game a coaching session complete with powerpoint slides and diagrams:
….Understanding the Roles of Mental Health Professionals in Collaborative Practice
Conference : 48th Annual Conference
- A major strength of collaborative practice is the work done by the family with mental health professionals. Collaborative professionals frequently work in interdisciplinary teams to facilitate peaceful resolution. The collaborative process may include one “neutral” mental health professional, or two “aligned” mental health professionals. Both of these approaches may include a child specialist to help understand and facilitate focusing on the needs of the children. In some areas, mental health professionals work as neutral facilitators and as case managers. The program will provide an overview of each role and the strengths and advantages of each.
- Diane S. Diel, J.D., ** President, International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, Milwaukee, WI Barbara E. Kelly, Ph.D., Maitland, FL Mary M. Stengel, M.S.W., LCSW, Towson, MD [PARTNER in COLLABORATION LLC: Alice Dansker Doyle]
- [**notice (Mandatory) Parent Education link on Ms. Diel’s site. This is a critical component. Unless such classes were indeed MANDATORY (even if parents have no custody dispute!) who would attend?][More on this below, @ “Children in the Middle”]
Ms. Doyle is dedicated to the concept of assisting families to civilly resolve issues involved in custody, divorce and related disputes and training dedicated professionals to join the Collaborative community. Toward that result, she and Mary McNeish Stengel, LCSW, established Collaborative Training Solutions, Inc., (CTS) a company completely separate from her law and mediation practice ….Ms. Doyle sees spreading the Collaborative word as a mission. There are many professionals and communities that have not been educated in the Collaborative model of dispute resolution. Some don’t have training available within a reasonable distance because of population and geographical challenges. In addition to reaching larger populations, Ms. Doyle enjoys traveling to communities to provide trainings where local professionals are excited and want to be trained, yet may otherwise have to travel great distances for training because their community is too small to attract a large trainee group”
Session Handouts for AFCC’s 48th Conference
….NOTE — this is an UPCOMING Conference (June, 2011) called ‘What’s Gender Got To Do With It?” See my posts of January, 2011 — when I talk about are you speaking mother, father, or mediator? Pick a conference — there’s something for everyone (but the house wins when the coins are finally tossed.. that’s “mediator” rhetoric)…
The powerpoint slides (available on-line at above link) show few photos, but there’s one — of a father with a kid on his shoulders — next to “Maintain Focus on What is In the Best Interests of the Child,” which is under “Elements of Coaching” slide. But let’s go to the diagram, the playbook:
The slide “WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?” shows two clients in the center, surrounded by larger circles, each one inhabited by a professor. This reminds me of a child’s game, such as “Ring Around the Rosy” or “Duck-Duck-Goose”. Either way the clients (litigants, most likely, parents….) are indeed surrounded by spheres of influence with lines between them; it does remind me of a corral:
“The Suggested Playahs”:
Two per client: Coach & Lawyer
At top and bottom: “Child Specialist“** (at the top — this category reigns supreme, obviously) and bottom, “Financial Specialist” which of course has to undergird the program, or who would fund he other specialists? How can you have a family law case without ferreting who’s got the assets that are going to be soaked in this process? So, FInancial Specialists are very, very important, especially for moneyed divorcing (or separating) parents.
Alternately, if one parent is Title IV-D (welfare), then the “Financial Specialists” are the program managers, and child support administrators, etc. After all, with $4 billion enforcement fees (per year, nationally speaking) surely some of these employees can figure out who’s got the money in each case. It’s in the public’s best interest for the courts to know….
**Child Specialist: (slide) is a NEUTRAL third party who focuses exclusively on the children’s concerns and/or their interests, advocates for the children and consults to the parents and their team. (Why GALs wont work is ….)
MOST professionals like to get paid for their work. Given that this includes child specialists, I say that it’s a rare person holding demi-god (i.e., neutral and not in the least subject to temptation to skew the scale) status. (“Mea culpa, mea culpa” for bringing this up)
When any judge takes payments from any County (in addition to state salary, whether this is in the form of benefits, or anything else) that’s a conflict of interest — the County has a vested interest in certain types of cases, and LOTS of these cases involve children, and child support, sometimes foster care and adoptions as well.
One attorney (non-aligned) noticed this and wrote about it in January, 2009. (I don’t think he was an AFCC member….):
LA County Payments to LA Superior Court Judges Cost Taxpayers Almost 1 Billion Dollars and Denied Constitutional Rights to the People of LA CountyJanuary 07, 2009
Los Angeles, California –
The commencement of the of unconstitutional payments by LA County to LA Superior Court judges was “unnoticeable” to the people of LA County in the late 1980s. Yet, its effect began to permeate the Los Angeles political and judicial systems to the extent that fundamental constitutional rights were compromised.Twenty years after the commencement of the payments, the political and judicial systems of LA County are rife with conflicts of interest, lack of disclosure and the failure to enforce constitutional rights and laws.A well traveled “money trail” exists from LA County who makes payments to LA Superior Court judges [present and past] who decide cases in favor of LA County.
Seems to me it took only a few months for a Superior Court Judge to throw in in Jail and the California Bar to disbar him. After all, his emphasis was constitutional issues (California State), and individual legal rights to fair and unbiased judicial hearings — not exactly your basic mental health, custody-coaching, professional-referral-basis expanding scheme.
So, he got tossed (well, led from the courtroom in handcuffs, and it seems the arrest record also fudged somewhat) into solitary coervcie confinement, as we now know, in an attempt to break his spirit (Note: it failed. 18 months later, he was finally released, and is still at it). This is an interim report from some groups / individuals that took up this banner — about no danged conflicts of interests in our courts, dammit! You will note, Mr. Fine’s comments were from his jail cell (and he has also been disbarred).
Los Angeles, CA Full Disclosure Network® presents a 3 min video report on the November 23, 2009 remarks made by Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich at a meeting of the Los Angeles County Lincoln Club in North Hollywood. The Supervisor provided an update regarding the controversy over long-time practice of the County making payments to Los Angeles Superior Court Judges. Civic leader David R. Hernandez provides his account of the presentation in the video.
A Fourth District CA Court of Appeals decision in November of 2008 ruled the county’s payments were illegal in theSturgeon v. County of Los Angeles lawsuit that revealed Judges, who are all elected officials, were not disclosing the extra payments they received from the County to litigants in the courtroom in cases involving the county nor on the Form 700 Economic Interest statements as required by the California Fair Political Practices Act.
Antonovich responded to a question about the continuing public concern that county payments created a “conflict” for judges and if this conflict was going to be resolved?
Here are some of the points made by Supervisor Antonovich:
- Recent [FEB 11, 2009] legislation, Senate Bill SBX2 11 has now made the payments legal.
- All new judges (appointed or elected) will not be receiving payments from the county.
- Most other California counties have been paying (illegal) benefits to the judges
- This was not just a Los Angeles County practice
- L A Judges have not always ruled in favor of the County (payments started in 1988)
- Several court rulings have been in against the County and in favor of illegal aliens
Featured in the video: are two prominent critics of the illegal payments made to Judges by the County and below are comments from Richard I Fine from his L.A. County Jail cell.
Richard Fine Fires back, in an L.A. Op Ed, as to Ron George. I’m enclosing here, for contrast with the profession-mongering family law field, via AFCC, to see a contrasting view of “in the best interests” of — one based on stop wasting our tax dollars, and concealing how this is done, not to mention, undermining the US Bill of Rights, labeled:
“The Deception of California Supreme Court Justice Ron George”
REBUTTAL TO L A TIMES OP-EDBy Richard I. FineIn his September 14, 2009 Los Angeles Times Op-Ed article California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George stated that the Judicial Council of California decided to close the California Courts one day a month until June 2010. He acknowledged the hardship on Californian’s and praised the Superior Court Judges who volunteered to take a one day pay cut.
FAILED TO DISCLOSE AUTHORSHIP
However, he did not disclose that the same Judicial Council of California of which he admitted he is the Chairman, also wrote Senate Bill SBX2 11. This bill was introduced by Senate President Pro-Tem Daryl Steinberg on February 11, 2009 passed by the State Senate on February on 14th , 2009 and passed by the State Assembly on February 15, 2009 signed by the Governor on February 20, 2009 and became effective on May 21, 2009.EXTRA JUDICIAL BENEFITS & CRIMINAL IMMUNITY
Such bill reinstated “supplemental county benefits” to Superior Court Judges in addition to their State Salary and compensation. Such supplemental County benefits have been held to be “unconstitutional” in the case ofSturgeon vs County of Los Angeles 167 Cal Ap 4th 630 (2008) review denied 12/23/08. Such bill also gave retroactive immunity to the Judges and others from criminal prosecution, civil liability and disciplinary action.$30 MILLION MORE DURING FISCAL CRISIS?
By omitting to disclose Senate Bill SBX2 11 and it’s retroactive immunity,Chief Justice George did not inform the people that the loss to the taxpayers in L.A.County alone of these supplement payments to the Superior Court Judges in fiscal year 2009-2010 is estimated at $30 million dollars this loss is greater than the contributions of all of the Judges of one day’s pay per month over a year. In effect, under Senate Bill SBX2 11 the judges are making more money during this financial crisis while the citizens of California suffer.DUE PROCESS DENIED
Worse yet, because of the retroactive immunity the decisions of the judges receiving county payments before 05-21-09 violated the due process clauses of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution and the California Constitution.
(end of commercial break from AFCC/Family Court Fantasia. back to our regularly scheduled post subject matter, here….)
OK Gray Davis in 2002 scotched (Vetoed) the concept of legislating Kids’ Turn, the whole Kids’ Turn and basically nothing BUT Kids’ Turn** (or — OK, maybe a look-alike or spinoff, such as Kids First, or Kids in the Middle, or Children in the Middle, or . .. or . . . . . anything that would require lots of people, some of who would recommend that parents be ordered to consume social-service product of, for example, a single AFCC acolyte (or, fully fledged priest) from Tarrant County, Texas . . . . . ).
Since the Governor (not the terminator) said NO! although the legislature (with its sanitized version) clearly said “YES” and wanted him to sign it . . . . did these zealots take “No!” for a final answer? Heck, No — they are salespeople first of foremost, and educators at heart.
[[**more commonly known as:
“The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth! So Help Me God!“and you gotta visit the website, there…. unlike these AFCC people, the author has a sense of humor in presenting reality…..]]
All true educators need to get continual access to people who need training after all, ambulance chasers chase ambulances, right? But what’s a psychologist and M.Ed.D. to do without some governmental subsidies? (“incentives”) — compete in the free market base don the quality of the product? NO! — back to the gameboard.
All that was just (long) introduction and setting the stage. This is the juicy center of the dialogue, and why I started this post — after the last two Kids’ Turn Posts. They’re just UNbelievable…. Anyone wnat to go to Florida and take notes at this upcoming conference? Lookee here:
Here’s some “Kids in the Middle” presenters. I’ll be back tomorrow — not done yet here…
Session : AFCC1111
5. Working with High Conflict Parents: How Conflict, Personality Disorders and Gender Influence Outcomes for Children
Conference : 48th Annual Conference
Speaker(s) :
- High conflict parents are the most difficult to work with in divorce proceedings. They utilize an inordinate amount of time and patience for professionals working with them. In addition, enduring conflict between parents, both pre- and post-divorce, has the greatest negative impact on children of divorce. Attorneys, mediators and guardians are in a position to recognize and minimize parental conflict when they possess knowledge about how gender and personality disorders play a role. This workshop focuses on recognizing the key elements at play and providing strategies for ensuring positive outcomes for the entire family system.
- Judy Berkowitz, M.Ed., Executive Director, Kids In The Middle, St. Louis, MO Carol Love, M.A., SMFT, Kids In The Middle, St. Louis, MO
Kids in the Middle profits from the Court-referrals and Schools-referral clientele, and says so on its 2009 Annual Report:
Workshops at the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court, Family Court ␣ 330 parents attended mandated parent education workshops.
Yes it is a Nonprofit, and in 2009, despite over $2,000 in interest income (how many people would this house for a month?), and over $1 mil in income, it operated $55K in the hole, which seems to be a standard in some of these groups. Probably because there are simply so many young and old, and middle-aged people that need this help, a little overeager promotional spending?
Ms. Berkowitz’s KIDS IN THE MIDDLE.org site has a book list. I always find these informative, for example, a few choice ones:
- The Boys’ and Girls’ Book About Divorce
, by Richard Gardner
THE MAN’s DEAD (a vicious death involving knives. Some say suicide, some disagree….), BUT HIS SELF-PUBLISHED IDEAS LIVE ON AMONG CONVERTS…..
- Good Parenting Through Your Divorce
, by Mary Ellen Hannibal and Judge Ina Gyemant
- Parenting After Divorce: A Guide to Resolving Conflicts and Meeting your Childrens’ Needs
, by Philip Michael Stahl
PHILIP STAHL ~ highly under-reported by women’s groups protesting PAS theory — they simply don’t pay attention to the distribution systems like I started to ~ ~ CARRIES THE GARDNER TORCH, AND HE’S GOOD AT IT. HE’S PART OF THE JUICY CENTER OF MY POST HERE TODAY — ABOUT HOW HIS BOOKS (AND OTHERS) ARE PROMOTED.. THROUGH COURT-MANDATED PARENTING PROGRAMS DIRECTING EVERYONE TO CONSUME JUDGE-ORIGINATED LITERATURE PUSHED THROUGH JUDGE-ORIGINATED (OR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL-ORIGINATED) NON-PROFIT, AND SOMEONE HAS TO SAY THIS — FRONT GROUPS. OR STRAIGHT OUT FOR-PROFIT COLLABORATIONS AMONG THE VARIOUS PROFESSIONALS ALL OBSESSED WITH “helping” OPK (other people’s kids) with the problems THEY perceive, from THEIR perspective (only) and with OUR (public) money, like as not…
While the parents they are coaching, already under huge financial stress often enough, are (if taxpayers and wage-earners) picking up, collectively, the slack which nonprofits — because of their wonderful public benefits to all of us, and the universe — get out of paying, i.e., funds for themselves and services like libraries, police, schools, public transportation infrastructure, and far less urgent public priorities than indoctrinating kids and parents in the right way to think about their own children, and their own situations, and of course how not to use criminal terminology in one’s thought processes, even if convictions show that it’s occurred. After all, let’s just “focus on the family” and forget about those other unpleasant matters — eech!
Let’s take a look at a slide, so we know what to expect from this “What’s GENDER Got to Do With It?” AFCC upcoming conference among mental health professionals, attorneys and judges in the family law system:
Workshop Objectives
Know how to recognize a client who may have a personality disorder.
Understand how the traits of a client with a personality disorder can lead to chronic conflict and therefore poor outcomes for their children.
Understand how gender issues can combine with some personality disorders, resulting in extreme dysfunction and poor outcomes for children.
Understand why personality disorder traits make it difficult for parents to meet their children’s needs.
Understand the increased risk for alienation when a parent has a personality disorder.
Learn strategies to manage and support the client with a personality disorder.
I don’t suppose any “personality disorders” might result from abuse, virtual POW situations in the home, or years of trying to avoid provoking a violent incident — or seeking outside protection (and not getting it) from someone molesting one’s own kids on unsupervised weekend visitations…. Or having suddenly lost one’s kids’ after trying to do something about that and having been unprepared for the impact of federal incentives to switch custody and eliminate child support arrears through access visitation funding….
But, as it’s said, Cobblers see shoes, and Mental Health professionals see Personality Disorders and not what might have CAUSED them…. To People selling hammers, the problem is a nail… To people obsessed with unmonitored contact with distressed minor children — and these often show up in M.Ed.D. forms, i.e., as educators — the problem with divorce is the parents…. both of them — and the solution is to separate the kids and coach them on how to think about their parents and themselves….This also pertains if the source of conflict may entail, say, poverty — it’s still more critical that the problemsolving money goes to nonprofits coaching Kids and Parents…..
Here’s another slide. Given the scope of the problem (neurotic divorcing parents), Kids in the Middle, Inc. and it’s 23 paid staff (some of who are, obviously getting some frequent flyer miles in, too) stand ready to stand in the gap against the bad parents, and provide services to fix their viewpoints:
About Kids In The Middle ®
Our Services: Consultation Assessments Group Therapy for Children Individual Therapy for Children Family Therapies Treatment Reviews Individual Therapy for Parents Co-Parenting Counseling Parent Groups
Diagnostic Supervised Visitation Mandated Co-Parenting Education Classes
(at least 3 of these categories come under the federal access visitation (incentive) grants to increase noncustodial parenting time. We know in practice, this rarely occurs with a mother, even though more and more mothers are being completely eliminated from contact with their children through these and similar programs. Moreover, to keep the professional straights, AFCC around the country & state chapters are also heavily promoting (supposedly to meet the grassroots demand from the general public) “Parent Coordination” as a new field. Wait til you see my post on THAT one….)
Here’s another. Notice that being “wounded” disqualifies one’s ability to co-parent (which might result in recommendation of sole custody to the other parent, logically speaking….). There is no mention of who is inflicting which wounds. THe total oblivion to the blood on the streets of women and children (and sometimes men, by suicide after killing the women, or just the children) around divorce. Those aren’t their concern, I guess. After all, dead people don’t consume mental health services….at least court-mandated; I imagine it could seriously screw up surviving relatives and witnesses….
Assessing Parental Ability to Co-Parent
What we look for:
Level of cooperation as parents in the marriage Is conflict pervasive or focused on a few issues? Level of trust Level of “woundedness” of one or both parents Level of acceptance of the separation
Ability or inability to let go of issues from the marriage Level of animosity Ability to recognize and express the other parent’s
strengths Mental Health Issues
DastardlyDads.blogspot.com reports some of these (I’m glad someone else does, I couldn’t do this consistently — too close to home!) Here’s one from May, 2011 — this month.
Dad charged with 1st-degree murder; 17-year-old daughter found in dumpster (Washington, DC)
After much public display of grief and gnashing of teeth, dad RODNEY JAMES MCINTYRE has been arrested in the stabbing murder of his 17-year-old daughter. Her body was found in a dumpster. Seems that Daddy was sexually abusing her. Not one word here about this girl’s mother….INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT. http://dcist.com/2011/05/father_of_ebony_franklin_charged_wi.phpFather of Ebony Franklin Charged with First Degree MurderNearly 6 months ago, MPD made the gruesome discovery of the body of 17-year-old Ebony Franklin in a dumpster in the ally of the 1000 block of Fairmont Street NW. Now, they have arrested Rodney James McIntyre, Ebony Franklin’s father, for her murder. Ebony was stabbed 17 times.Sources say McIntyre was linked both by DNA and cell phone records to Franklin’s death.
Police Chief Cathy Lanier indicated in her press conference announcing McIntyre’s arrest that there was also evidence of a sexual relationship between Ebony Franklin and her father.
McIntyre had been quoted in the press saying that “The way my baby was found in the trash, it’s unacceptable. What I want to know as her father, what really took place with my child?”
Now why must parents who may have gone through some serious, criminal hell spots be exposed, unilaterally, to consume classes by professionals who blame both parents for failure to get along with each other in situations where there is a clear perpetrator? . . . . . . . . I’ll let you figure out your own answer, I have also…. The entire forced shared-parenting/ joint-parenting field ignores situations like this, and that if separation HAD been allowed by the family law system, how many children would be alive now, that aren’t? And their mothers? and their fathers? What kind of sick obsession is it to change the language of criminal law into the language of, “my mental illness — and she alienated my children — made me do it”? This IS the language of AFCC; their main site acknowledges this, and it has now become the norm….
The real motivation is greed and fear of no professional niche for people raised on education theories and psychology. .. back to this particular group:
I’m so re-assured that these mandated classes will keep us on the right track. However, if they don’t, these same ladies are also training Advanced GAL classes (from a 2010 Missouri Bar agenda):
Child-Focused Divorce Therapy & How Attorneys Can Keep Kids Out of the Middle of Divorce Disputes
Speakers: Judy Berkowitz and Carol Love, Kids In The Middle, Inc., Kirkwood [MO]*
[GEE: I wonder if the punch-line is to recommend classes/services from groups like, say, “Kids in the Middle”…]
(*Kirkwood is an affluent suburb of St. Louis)
NOW LET’S SEE ANOTHER SET OF AFCC WORKSHOPS/ MP3s on HOW TO THINK RIGHT (a.k.a., marketing seminars for court professionals)….
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A little more “Parenting Coordination” promo, a little more “Alienation Theory” promo never hurts:
ession : AFCC1101
2. Advanced Challenges in Parenting Coordination
Conference : Pre-Conference Sessions from the 48th Annual Conference
Speaker(s) :
- Successful parenting coordination is dependent on a research-based understanding about what works and what doesn’t. This institute will help participants optimize outcomes with difficult parenting coordination cases by constructing a framework for success. Presenters will address parenting coordination from the mental health {{1st things first — Mental Health First, Legal — 2nd}} and legal {{legal rights? legal ethics? or how to expand the legal profession(and further undermine civil rights) by engaging mental health professionals?}} perspectives offering a multidimensional understanding of the process. Participants will be better prepared to address complex parent coordination cases. {{PARENTING COORDINATION EXISTS to handle the Complexity Groups like AFCC have already introduced. Apparently, this has gotten out of hand, and not parenting coordination itself has (already) gotten “complex” and needs coaches to tell coordinators how to keep it together…}}
- Debra K. Carter, Ph.D., National Cooperative Parenting Center, Bradenton, FL Hon. Hugh Starnes (ret.), Ft. Myers, FL Denise L. Baier, M.A., Ft. Myers, FL B. Kerry Brown, M.S.W., Temple Terrace, FL
Session : AFCC1102
3. Differential Responses to Alienation: Risk Factors, Indicators and AssessmentConference : Pre-Conference Sessions from the 48th Annual Conference
Speaker(s) :
- Alienation has serious consequences for children and families. Based on a differential response model, the presenters advocate for early identification of parent-child contact problems and risk factors for the occurrence of alienation, and the implementation of appropriate, targeted responses. ** This institute (“INSTITUTE”???) provides a framework (indoctrination model) for assessing and intervening with families to resolve parent child contact problems before behaviors become entrenched; and help judges, lawyers and mental health workers to effectively respond to cases of alienation.** The analytical framework presented is based on a review of literature and case law, interviews with practitioners and scholars, and clinical experiences.
- Nicholas Bala, LL.B., LL.M., Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada Barbara Jo Fidler, Ph.D., Toronto, ON, Canada Michael Saini, Ph.D., M.S.W., University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
***”Alienation” is like the headless horseman. It’s been proved scientifically unsound and rejected by the American Prosecutors (etc., etc.) — but it rides on, in places like this.
A group taking Violence Against Women funds is now in bed with the “let’s not talk about it!” AFCC, lending a false legitimacy to the discussion. I have tracked funding from this one (BWJP) and am presently p*ssed off at the alliance — although hardly surprised by it. FOr the record, attempts were made to contact Ms. Frederick about AFCC regarding mis-use of the federal program funds to pay off custody switching to batterers/molesters (as I recall Liz Richards relating this — I was the person who alerted her to BWJP hooking up with AFCC). For a number of years, HHS grants of $1.78 Million went to this organization. The mutual blindness is probably not accidental — it’s a symbiotic relationship to keep the grants coming and support the published professionals — while parents, I must say, perish, or just about….
Session : AFCC1122
16. Examining the Family Court Response to Cases Involving Domestic Violence: Findings of the Henry County Ohio Safety Audit
Conference : 48th Annual Conference
Speaker(s) :
- This workshop describes the methodology and outcomes of a recent study of the legal and social service systems used to resolve child custody matters involving allegations of domestic violence. The Safety Audit, an institutional ethnography process, generated practical recommendations for strengthening the responses of various family court practitioners to custody cases involving domestic violence. Local and national audit team members will share the findings and recommendations of this audit and discuss the challenges of the process.
- Loretta Frederick, J.D., Battered Women’s Justice Project, Winona, MN Hon. Denise McColley, Henry County Family Court, Napoleon, OH Richard L. Altman, J.D., Magistrate, Napoleon, OH PamWeaner, J.D., Legal Aid of Western Ohio, Defiance, OH
These people truly do not know what time of day it is. What they do know, however, is where their next plane ticket is coming from. The difference in perspective comes from a consciousness and quasi-religious (in some cases, less than quasi-) belief that the world is fair, and that certain types of professionals are essential to keep it balanced — if only those danged parents would be more docile when ordered to sit still and be taught at!
Here, Ms. Frederick is on a Domestic Violence Task Force (“Wingspread Conference”) with a bunch of AFCC-ers, giving their concerns about the matter a veneer of respectability.
http://www.afccnet.org/pdfs/AFCC%20Five-Year%20Report%20Web.pdf
(hover/click to see summary text on link. Looks like AFCC, bored with the US, is providing social science libraries to developing nations, to make sure they develop right — Philistines, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Mongolia. I don’t suppose any of these materials might take into account cultural differences or, for example, address family problems caused by — shari’a law, and honor killings? ??? Are we still into co-parenting issues there, too? Or is it just the ol’ bread and butter parental alienation, plus bring on the court-referred mental health professionals? Do we think that these countries are going to need fatherhood commissions to balance out the destructive feminists in developing nations who — for example — attempt to marry out of their faith, or are guilty of having been gang-raped without 4 male witnesses to testify it wasn’t consensual adultery — punishable by death, to the woman at least..?)
I really have to question AFCC’s motives in all this — what “world” do they live in? Where are their heads at?
And we are letting this PRIVATE, JUDGE~MENTAL HEALTHPROFESSIONAL-ORIGINATED, NONPROFIT(and originally, tax-dodging) PRIVATE organization basically run the family law system, which receives PUBLIC funds, from the top (California Judicial Council, Texas Supreme Court, at least, and plenty of superior court judges are members) to bottom and even let them train paraprofessionals who don’t even belong there to start with ? ??? And we then fund domestic violence organizations who don’t fess up to they’re going along with the program, pretty much, by failing to report the grants angle (i.e., how it plays into custody decisions….)
???
So, YEAH, I’m disturbed by this. Why shouldn’t I be? Did Ms. Frederick or BWJP report on, say, in 1999, how Ohio Legislature voted a Fatherhood Commission in to law, and did they warn single mothers, including single battered mothers, how this might impact their custody cases? See “5101.34 Ohio Commission on Fatherhood”
or how its membership was specifically targeted to single females? …. Or how this then, a mere 2 years later (2001) apparently, led to supreme-court appointed a TASK FORCE ON FATHERHOOD (you always need a task force, right?) I hope blog readers scan through THIS document, and search for “Philip Stahl” (an expert who testified, what else), learn how people were flown out to Maricopa County, Arizona home of Dawn Axsom – oh, I forgot — she was murdered, along with her mother, on a court-ordered visitation after pleading with a family law judges to leave, as there had been death threats — to hear AFCC presentations.
Ohio Task Force on Family Law and Children
Family Law Reform: Minimizing Conflict, Maximizing Families*
*if that sounds like your basic AFCC presentation, it is…. Experts giving testimony:
Experts and Stakeholders
Individuals who testified before the Task Force
Nancy Neylon Executive Director Ohio Domestic Violence Network
The Hon. Judith Nicely President Ohio Domestic Relations Judges Association
Kevin O’Brien President of the Board Parents And Children for Equality
Eileen Pruett, J.D. Director of the Office of Dispute Resolution Supreme Court of the State of Ohio
Nancy Rodgers, J.D. Vice Provost, Academic Administration The Ohio State University
Jeff Sherrill, Ph.D. Meers, Inc. Ohio Psychological Association
Michael Smalz, J.D. Statewide Attorney Ohio State Legal Services Association
The Hon. Leslie H. Spillane Judge, Butler County Court of Common Pleas Domestic Relations Division
Philip Stahl, Ph.D. Psychologist Author “Conducting Child Custody Evaluations: A Comprehensive Guide” and “Complex Issues in Child Custody Evaluations”
Tracy Ulstad, J.D. Ohio State Legal Services-NAPIL Equal Justice Fellow
Sanford Braver, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Arizona State University Author “Divorced Dads: Shattering the Myths”
Gerard Clouse, J.D. Attorney, Sowald, Sowald and Clouse
Christine Coates, M.Ed., J.D. Mediator and Parent Coordinator Past President, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
Robert Emery, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Director of Clinical Training Director of the Center for Children Families and the Law University of Virginia Author: “ Marriage, Divorce and Children’s Adjustment”
Judy Greenberger School Psychologist, Shaker Heights City Schools Ohio School Psychologists
Don Hubin, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy The Ohio State University
Magistrate Eva Kessler, J.D. Chair, Domestic Relations Practice Area Ohio Association of Magistrates
Deborah Kline Association for Child Support Enforcement
Michael Lamb, Ph.D. Head of Section on Social and Emotional Development National Institute Of Child Health and Human Development
The Hon. Charles Loman III Judge, Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations Division Kids Turn Program
(Did someone say there is a Kids Turn Program right on a court website? Well that simplifies matters…CN find record of this one easily, or much on the judge….)
(This link is FYI amusement — although the mother in the case is not amused. She did get the expense reports, however, and out one of Judge Loman’s associates for billing taxpayers on Thanksgiving Day, after having hand-delivered a final decision. This is a PAS/Sexual abuse allegations, custody went to Daddy case, might be interesting reading….)
{2011, it looks like a ‘Parent Education Department:
“The court is led by Administrative Judge Denise L. Cross and Judge Timothy D. Wood. The Judges are assisted in performing the duties of the court by nine Magistrates, the Legal Services Department, the Court Operations Department, Bailiffs, Court Reporters, the Legal Secretary Department, the Assignment Office, the Compliance Office, the Family Relations Department, the Mediation Services Department, the Management of Information Systems Department, the Finance Department, and the Parent Education Department.”
The required seminar (3 hrs) is “Helping Children Succeed After Divorce” as a link to this 5-yr divorce case shows, interesting docket, too.
OHIO 2001 Task Force Experts — Anyone want to bet how many of the above are members of AFCC, besides those who actually admitted it?
Here (remember — back in 2001) is the preface to the final report of this task force, showing what they did:
However, given the scope and importance of the project, the General Assembly extended this deadline, to allow this research effort to be advanced more fully.
More than two dozen experts from around the state and across the country presented testimony to the Task Force over a six-month period. Representatives from a variety of parents’ organizations,** as well as a panel of teens who had experienced their parents’ divorces, brought their unique concerns to the Task Force. Staff members obtained research articles and statutes from around the nation and the globe to find the latest policies and practices. Members of the Task Force traveled to Phoenix, Arizona, to meet with staff at the Maricopa County Court system, a nationally recognized leader in court services and pro se programs, and to conferences sponsored by the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, an internationally acclaimed organization which provides research and programs for professionals dealing with families in conflict.**
{**and has an official policy to change the “old” language of criminal law to the “new” language of (psychology, essentially…..) –}
{**anyone see a feminist flavor within range of the task force? Or someone willing to talk about domestic violence? . .. Note — contents highlight the access visitation conferences. I attended the BMCC (Battered mothers Custody Conferenc) in NY state this past January (2011) — and practically no one had HEARD of “access visitation” nor — naturally — was it even discussed. One reason, among others, I left there in disgust. They are no better than the fatherhood groups that don’t help fathers — it’s just about the dole, the $dollar….}
At the end of the information gathering process, the Task Force examined all of the information obtained with one goal in mind, enhancing the well being of Ohio’s children and families in a fiscally efficient and responsible way. Ideas were discussed and debated, and suggested statutory language created. The Task Force focused on the idea that Ohio’s legal and social service institutions should minimize conflict between parents and protect children from the effects of their parents’ conflicts, while providing opportunities and support to parents as they continue to be parents to their children, regardless of family structure. The following report and recommendations are the result of this extensive research effort and debate and have been unanimously approved, without any abstentions or dissents, by official action of the 17 members of the Task Force present at the final meeting on June 1, 2001.
So, given all this lead-in, I really ought to show you the Philip Stahl Promotion in the 48th annual conference (guess AFCC was only in its 30s way back then…..):
TO BE CONTINUED ON MY NEXT, HYPER-LINKED POST …
So, You Want Us To Speak Out Against Ohio HB 508, Maybe Listen for an HOUR, But No Time to LINK to it Up Front? [Publ. May 27, 2022].
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This is an opportunistic post. I exploited the opportunity to leverage another’s single, recent Tweet to make a few points and share some relevant information others that Tweet withheld. “You” in post title references who sent that quoted (and embed, with my responses) below.
I’ll repeat the title link and surrounding text below the “Foreword” added later:
Yeah, I talk Ohio HB 508, Ohio DVN (and with it, Ohio IPV Collaborative), OhioJudges.org (a bit),** JD Supra, LLC (in California) just because, UNLIKE NFVLCgwu, it published a few articles by Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP, KJK.com (an Ohio law firm with offices in Cleveland and in the state capital, Columbus) and because one of its just three family lawyers (with the most recent J.D. and Bar passage) actually did post a link to HB508 and even, briefly, explained a few things about it.
(**whatever I had to say about OhioJudges.org is on Twitter; I didn’t get to it this time around, and I do not have the full overview yet. IT was referenced in the Tweet I’m responding to, and would be good to develop an awareness of, especially if you live in Ohio (and I imagine other states have their versions, too).
It wasn’t too surprising that the Family Law part of Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP had several references to High-Conflict and Parental Alienation. At least, on JD Supra®, the article published by one of the Family Law team provided the courtesy of a link to the bill from a government website (continued below Post, and related post titles)..
Post Title: “So, You Want Us To Speak Out Against Ohio HB 508, Maybe Listen for an HOUR, But No Time to LINK to it Up Front? [Publ. May 27, 2022].” (short-link ends: -ez3) . . . .
Off-ramped “Foreword” — I had a LOT more to say, but moved it over to a related or “twin” post. About to publish both of them the same day, or at most one day apart. This one first…The other one delivers a bit of a bombshell, but at least helped answer some long-standing concerns I had about the situation in Columbus…
More Ohio, Ah, ‘Evolving Situations,’ Like Capital University Law School’s NCALP, I mean FYouthLaw (to end Aug. 2022) with its Ohio IPV Collaborative and Family Advocacy Clinic with Wexner-Epstein (Yes, THAT Epstein) Connections [Publ. May 28, 2022] (case-sensitive short-link ends “-eBE”)
The KJK.com article #1 of just 2 on JD Supra® platform:
JDSupra.com “Branding – Visibility – Intelligence – Guidance” ” Leverage Your Thought Leadership”
JD Supra, LLC Content Marketing (but began with focus on helping law practices develop their bran ds) is interesting and you probably should take notice, on its own. Just two co-founders… Aviva Cuyler (name found on BizFileOnline.SOS.ca.gov, i.e., the LLC-lookup) and Adrian Lurssen (LinkedIn) (The “u” in Lurssen should have an umlaut). JD Supra, LLC is impressive, though several delinquencies noted at the secretary of state. I won’t deal with those here. Aviva Cuyler’s school of law was in Connecticut, she passed the California Bar, but has since (about 2015/ this LLC only formed about 2007) become inactive (through non-payment of fees), most likely because with this business model, she doesn’t need to practice law!
(For a sample, search @JDSupra on Twitter and see just how many types of accounts / newsletters, reports, etc. are shown!)
Also in the collective “Oppose Ohio HB 508” mix I found getting some local Ohio media mentions, and in four comments submitted on the text of the bill itself) a unique, i.e., easily searchable surname “Nancy Fingerhood“[<~Facebook], a self-identified “NSPC” member and Tina Swithin One Mom’s Battle group member (Nov. 26, 2021, in “The Vindicator,” and Guest Opinion, April 15, 2022, in Cleveland.com). Fingerhood’s name surfaced while I was searching for the bill and “shared custody.” She seems associated, so far, with New Jersey, Colorado, possibly California, or at least with OMB in California, and now Ohio… I added to this already full topics list only because NFVLCgwu (whose Tweet I’m responding to) collaborates with, publishes supportive comments from NSPC (National Safe Parents Coalition) member (Ms. Swithin) and was even featured on a paid-for press release.
In other words, an NSPC/”OMB” connection in this context is relevant; see my posts February – April, 2022. otherwise I wouldn’t bother mentioning a single, though vocal, individual. To find them, either just search “FamilyCourtMatters.org NSPC” (Google, or whichever search engine you use) to browse those post titles, or, I’ll make it simple — because my April 4, 2022, post lists the others and includes a captioned images from its PR-Web announcement. Someone associated with non-entity “NSPC” sponsored the announcement, NFVLCgwu seconded it (see nearby image). Click on link to access the other post titles & links, in this color background. If you want to. One of those posts details the name-changing/shape-shifting California LLC and nonprofit (as though one container was emptied and the contents placed into another), as well as its profiting alongside and copying the business model of AFCC individuals using the term “High-Conflict” (Bill Eddy and others)… And charging Moms to sit through training, building that network, etc.
I also provide below an informal, by-recall, bulleted list of relevant OHIO factors I previously posted or at least noticed on this particular state. Among those, the fatherhood grants (not always under the expected CFDA program numbers, that is, federal grants program labeling, far exceeds those allocated to domestic violence program numbers. (CFDA.gov wording has changed, but the program numbers, I believe, are retained. “Category of Federal Domestic (meaning, USA, vs. international) Assistance), and large amounts were going to a single Ohio university.
Because the May 18 tweet tagged (and a later one, quoted) the Ohio DVN, I brought up the Ohio IPV Collaborative at Capital University Law School (a private university in the state capital, with an “ECLA” seminary on campus, ‘Trinity Lutheran.”). Ohio DVN is listed as a member of that “collaborative.” (ECLA: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, organized in 1988, more progressive than some other varieties, three (churches) merged to form this one; some others, probably, split off in response over (the usual volatile issues).. Its HQ is in Chicago).
The Ohio IPV Collaborative automatically raises the issue of public/private partnership with (as to both public and private entities) known father-focused groups, parts of the state government, and and almost slavish, obsequious, “star-struck” commitment to sponsor David Mandel’s “Safe & Together Institute” model, state-wide trainings, etc. I will link to some previous posts (on Ohio IPV, some of this), but may have more to say here — ALL of this plays into the proposed legislation, and should (naturally) have been mentioned (years ago) by those so vocal to oppose it, whether or not such opposition is appropriate. (From what I can tell, it probably is — but that’s not my point here..).
RE: NFVLCgwu
Remember, as pertains to domestic violence, abuse of former or current (female) partners and subsequent murder of their (or her) biological children in the context of “family courts” — as described on its website, “NFVLCgwu doesn’t even mention or say “family courts,” let alone “domestic violence,” but only “family violence.”
While we may like to assume there is a feminist drive and concern, this certainly isn’t embedded into the center’s purpose, as it was (at least in business entity name) with predecessor “Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project (“DVLEAP“) under the same director, Joan Meier. Its website, so far, hasn’t posted a public copy of any tax return beyond 2019 (Fiscal Year Ending Dec: EIN# is 201076297.
DVLEAP Tax Returns show how NOT grass-roots it is, and how accurate in its financial filings: Here’s itsForm 990 FY2018from Candid.org: 3 employees, about $500K (½ million only) gross receipts, and its main activity — ALMOST self-supporting, not quite (per page 2 of return) is “DC LEAP,” i.e., such advocacy only in the DC metropolitan area. Its description of activities “nationwide” per the IRS instructions should be (but isn’t) broken down by expense and program type and, anyhow, is minimal. Two employees are Joan Meier (not paid much, as this is in addition to, presumably, her salary from George Washington Law School), and LeAnn DeReus. As I noticed with the public copy FY2019, there are internal discrepancies (in numbers) regarding Schedule G Fund-raising expenses which is the supporting detail for Summary, which just don’t reconcile (although not in exactly the same manner). $21,000 is claimed for “professional fund-raising fees” and the place where the individual or company which got this should be named, reads, “see Part IV Statement 1” — which is missing. It also claims $89K fund-raising “expenses” which isn’t born out on Schedule G, either. Oh well…
Despite so little to track, for a return due the prior April, it only filed by mid-November), does so almost invisibly at the very bottom of its website (in gray on black fine print), and the link to its “Annual financial audits” (which isn’t even the proper term: either produce Annual Reports, or Audited Financial Statements — or both…) is circular and leads back to the 990s. So, those audited financial statements since 2004 (or, the most recent) aren’t even available (at least through direct links) on-line, a situation it seems few people called them out on, as it was so years ago also. It’s probably time for an updated (quick) review of both the website and what (little) information, though still important to understand, of this nonprofit.
DVLEAP being also a member of the District of Columbia “Coalition Against Domestic Violence” (DCCADV.org) must “toe the line” of the federally-funded coalition, which in each state (or D.C.) also controls (basically) its members — and that standard we’ve already noticed incorporates tolerance and encouragement/welcoming of partnerships (informal or consulting or otherwise) with fatherhood-friendly, father-engagement professionals, across the board.
In this post I also raise surrounding points, and mention organizations and non-entities at law schools that continue to surface in my blog, regarding this strange state of Ohio. When you do this kind of writing for a dozen years or so, specific states have their unique characteristics, or catch my attention because of (usually) specific types of, well, corruption or centralization outrages. Ohio just keeps coming up…
I footnoted another blog post where Ohio domestic violence (or fatherhood-promotion) organizations or other features play a key role. I know there were several.
Another one, drawing down Federal SAMHSA funds, was so complicated, I felt I should issue a disclaimer “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” in its title, or close to its long, convoluted title… (AFCC member/s-involved… the field was parenting education)…I see it was posted Christmas Day: Dec. 25, 2018. In my personal life narrative, I’d relocated from California, and was in a good, safe place (and lease!) at the time. FYI, in general, I just don’t do holidays — any of them — any more.
This post “So, YouWant Us To Speak Out Against Ohio HB 508, Maybe Listen for an HOUR, But You’ve Not Time to LINK to it Up Front? [Draft May 24, 2022].” (short-link ends: -ez3) also tests my research to production speed, sort of a personal challenge. These can backfire, but rarely without educating myself alongside sharing what I find. Without that side benefit, I might have quit years ago..
This is the May 18, 2022, Tweet:
(This and the next few quotes are in text format: further below I provide as “Embedded Tweet.” I can only embed my own Tweets, but as they’re replies, they’ll connect to the others).
“OhioDVN” I already knew, so I looked first (as I recall) at “OhioJudges.org”; learned a lot there, and said I said the next day, May 19, first:
Then (a “Quote re-Tweet,” i.e., replying via RT):
So you can see that basically, this post springs from two urges: (1) my desire to share links and look-up of the Bill in question and some (not-that-) peripheral** discoveries to add to other awareness of who and what is “Ohio” and is going on in Ohio in this context because it’s timely, interesting, and relevant, and (2) my irritation at how the individuals associated with the NFVLCgwu (non-entity), boasting and publicizing consistently their resources (Endowed Chair for Director at GWU Law School) and any media or academic citations as showing their importance to the field emphasize joining and following but neglect basic, common-courtesy links and points of reference to what, at any point in time, they are actually talking about.
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Written by Let's Get Honest|She Looks It Up
May 27, 2022 at 12:28 pm
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Tagged with "father-engagement" systemwide: a good idea?, "What's with the State of Ohio?" commentary, #NFVLCgwu, @LetUsGetHonest (Twitter content), Abigail Wexner, ANROWS, ANROWS sponsoring David Mandel programming, Australian Family and Federal Circuit Court Merger, Capital University Columbus Ohio, David G. Mandel MA, David Mandel of Non-Violence Alliance re "Safe and Together" model (older cite from VAWnet) -- see Ohio IPV Collaborative post update, DVLEAP.org is Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project EIN#201076297 (2004), Exploiting State Gov't Connex to run International DV Programming, Fatherhood.Ohio.gov, http://Wexnerfoundation.org/, Jeffrey Epstein, Leslie H. Wexner (L Brands | Victoria's Secret)+ Jeffrey Epstein + Capital Law School (Columbus Ohio) Centers, Lists of Statewide Coalitions Against DV (who posts 'em?) NNEDV.org NCADV.org, NCALP, NSPC - NationalSafeParents.org (new Feb. 2022), OHIO, Ohio Children's Trust Fund (OCTF) & logo, Ohio DVN, Ohio Fatherhood Commission and Regions, Ohio HB 508 (2022) IS it about Shared Parenting Presumption?, Ohio IPV Collaborative, OhioChildLaw.org, Opposing Ohio HB 508, Public/Private Partnerships (as the Food Chain), Should the US forfeit its form of government for Best-Practices elsewhere?, What is "ECLA"?