New York Daily News, June 25th, 2008
Letting child welfare workers conduct criminal background checks on everyone in a household where they suspect abuse was among a mixed bag of laws passed in the waning days of Albany's current legislative session.
"Making a determination about a child's safety is hard enough - but making it without the best and fullest information is just plain dangerous," said Mayor Bloomberg, who had pressed Albany to pass the bill.
This has a potential for disaster. These child welfare workers have too much power as it is. They should turn over the information to the cops and not play Mannix on their own. The potential for abuse is too great. If they think the kid is at risk, by all means call in the cops and get to the bottom of it. But the kids that work in this field are not detectives and shouldn't be put in that position. They have a hard enough job as it is. Just sayn'
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Ah, it's all about the POWAH!!!
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