When family court perpetuates abuse.  If Michigan’s Family Court Judge Lisa Gorcyca were smart, she would have placed a gag order on the mother before she ordered her children to juvenile detention for not having a healthy relationship with the father they accused of abuse. Then the children could have been kept there until they graduated from high school. Just like the Judge told them they … [Read more...]

Second to one in combating corruption and promoting transparency California GRADE: C- (73) RANK: 2ND Assessing the systems in place to deter corruption in state government One night in March 2014, state Senator Leland Yee stood before a fancy dinner thrown in San Francisco by the Society of Professional Journalists to receive the Public Official Award — for a second time. Yee, … [Read more...]

Lakeville police Lt. Jason Polinski assumed that as his agency searched for missing teenagers Gianna and Samantha Rucki, the people who saw them last would be willing to help. Instead, he said, those people have resisted in hopes that the girls stay missing. “Every person we’ve talked to had the same anti-government, ‘family court sucks’ attitude,” Polinski said. [Read Full … [Read more...]

In New York City, a woman tossed her 6-month-old daughter out of a high-rise apartment building, killing her, as her three other children looked on in horror. In Georgia, a father intentionally strapped his toddler into the car seat of a hot SUV, leaving him to die. And in the Canadian city of Winnipeg, a mom was charged with beating her 2-month-old daughter, who had Down … [Read more...]

Court Referee Dean Richardson-Mendelson recently issued a scathing ruling against Susan Carrington, a Maryland mother who has not seen either of her two children in more than four years, and whose Rockland County custody case received international attention after a series of RCT articles. [Read Full Article] … [Read more...]