AOL ARTICLE EXPOSES WIDESPREAD USE OF TORTURE ON PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES AT JUDGE ROTENBERG CENTER IN MASSACHUSETTS!

Writing for AOL, JENNIFER C. KERR and LAURAN NEERGAARD report as follows,

CANTON, Mass. (AP) -- Some cut themselves. Others slam their heads against walls or desks - so hard that one girl detached both retinas and a young man triggered a stroke. Another pulled out all his teeth.

"Self-injury is one of the most difficult behaviors associated with autism and other developmental or intellectual disabilities, and a private facility outside Boston that takes on some of the hardest-to-treat cases is embroiled in a major debate: Should it use electrical skin shocks to try to keep patients from harming themselves or others?

The Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to ban devices used by the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton, Massachusetts, the only place in the country known to use skin shocks as aversive conditioning for aggressive patients..."

For more information on this matter, please click on the link below:

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/09/14/skin-shocks-still-used-at-mass-school-draw-fda-look/20962074/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing7%7Cdl2%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D529041

NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY COMMENTS ON DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PARENTS WITH DISABILITIES!

Attorney Robyn M. Powell reports,

"The right to raise a family is undoubtedly one of the rights most cherished by Americans.  The United States Supreme Court has avowed continuously and with conviction that parents’ rights to the care and custody of their children are protected under the Due Process Clause of the 14^th Amendment.  Parental rights have long been held as fundamental, beginning with the seminal 1923 decision in Meyer v. Nebraska,[1] in which the Supreme Court held that parents have the due process right to see to the education of their children together with the duty to give children a suitable education.  Two years after Meyer, the Supreme Court, in Pierce v. Society of Sisters, ruled that parents have the liberty “to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control.”[2]  In this landmark case, the Supreme Court found, “The child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.”[3]  Subsequent decisions have further defined the contours of the law’s protections of parental rights.[4]"

See more at:

http://healthlawreporter.bbablogs.org/2014/09/06/delivery-room-courtroom-ensuring-rights-parents-disabilities/#sthash.XFS4fKJz.rIvHuNo6.dpuf

UPCOMING FAMILY COMMISSION MEETING, WED. SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Family Commission



Agenda

Family Commission

90 Washington Street, Hartford, CT, Courtroom B2

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

2:00 P.M.

I. Review and approval of minutes

II. Financial Affidavit

III. Survey results – comments from other states

IV. Administrative Divorce

V. Mission/purpose of the Family Commission

VI. Collaborative/mediated divorce

VII. Such other matters that may come before the Commission

VIII. Next meeting

A draft to the minutes of the previous March 12, 2014 meeting is located at the link below:

http://www.jud.ct.gov/Committees/Family/fam_minutes_031214.pdf
 

ANTICIPATING A DIVORCE? BE WARNED THAT YOUR EX CAN USE YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS AGAINST YOU!

A 2011 Forbes Magazine Article points out the dangers of social networking during a divorce in the State of Connecticut.  See below:

"Most divorces require spouses to part with some of their property, but in Connecticut, a soon-to-be ex-husband and wife are being asked to give up more than just investments, cars, TVs, kids, and pets. They have to hand over their social networking passwords. At the end of September, Judge Kenneth Shluger ordered that the attorneys for Stephen and Courtney Gallion exchange “their client’s Facebook and dating website passwords.”

For more information on this subject, please click on the link below:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/11/07/judge-orders-divorcing-couple-to-swap-facebook-and-dating-site-passwords/

OFFICE OF THE CHILD ADVOCATE IN CONNECTICUT REPORTS HIGH INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY RATES FOR THE YEAR 2013!

For more information on this report, please click on the link below:

http://www.ct.gov/oca/lib/oca/Media_Alert_OCAFatalityReport__docx.pdf

CONNECTICUT JUDICIAL BRANCH POSTING ON SERVICE DOGS AND THE ADA!

For more information on this subject, please click on the link below:

http://www.jud.ct.gov/lawlib/Law/serviceanimals.htm

FORBES ARTICLE INDICATING CONNECTICUT HAS ONE OF THE WORST PERFORMING ECONOMIES IN THE NATION!

Corrupt Judicial System partially responsible.

For a link to the article, see below:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimpowell/2013/08/01/how-did-rich-connecticut-morph-into-one-of-americas-worst-performing-economies/