How To Find Out Who Called Adult Protective Services On Me

1: Accept any accusations seriously.

No matter how absurd or unbelievable the CPS/DCFS social worker'southward claim(s) may seem, please empathize that the social worker is dead serious, and most likely presumes – no… virtually probable BELIEVES that you are guilty as accused. Even if the social worker doesn't admit that south/he is at your domicile to have your children, oft times that IS EXACTLY why they are there. It is our experience, over 20+ years, that the majority of CPS social workers develop a cynical view of life and presume that yous are UTTERLY GUILTY until Yous Evidence that you are not: the opposite of the way the "justice system" is supposed to operate.

2: Ask what the accusations and charges are.

Most typically, the CPS/DCFS social worker wants to go on you from knowing exactly what yous have been accused of — sort of keeping themselves on a "general fishing expedition" — but it is required by state and federal law to tell you the exact details of the accusations at offset contact with yous. Exist wary! Do non settle for the vague and general charges called "neglect" or "abuse." Fail and abuse are broad categories – not the legally-required "details" of the accusations or charges! You lot are entitled to know the "details & specifics" of what you lot are accused of committing.

3: Say as lilliputian equally possible. In fact – BE Tranquility!

In criminal law it is Always strongly suggested that you talk to NO One just your attorney. Think almost information technology. Well-nigh ALL CHARGES that CPS or DCFS levels against yous are CRIMINAL CHARGES. And while CPS or DCFS is there ONLY to have your kids, the police can and often will show up later for the parents! In fact, open your mouth and tell the CPS investigator simply enough to "make their example" and you tin can start packing an overnight case every bit the constabulary will be chosen by CPS who will be at your door to accept you abroad.

Sure, it is totally natural that innocent parents who have nothing to hide will want to explain everything to a CPS social worker because such parents would assume that Whatsoever reasonable person would see that there is nothing wrong going on. But CPS and DCFS social workers are unremarkably ANYTHING Only reasonable. They become entrenched in a culture that is uniformly cynical virtually ALL PARENTS. Bluntly, y'all are presumed guilty by the majority of CPS and DCFS agents. The exhausted, over-worked social worker who simply fought the crowded freeways to make it to your home is at that place on a mission. That mission is most often to find bear witness to support what the social worker already believes to be true – that you abused your child but as the neighbor, relative or bearding tipster claimed.

If you don't talk to them –just as y'all are ever told to never voluntarily talk with the law if they are accusing you of a crime– you take their power away. They will not be able to utilise your own admissions, statements, and your very words against yous. For instance" "Take you always spanked your toddler?" Exercise you really think at that place is a expert answer to that question? The majority of CPS and DCFS social workers abominate most any form of parental punishment.

four: The infinitesimal you become aware that your family is being investigated, YOU MUST find an attorney who has experience in fighting CPS or DCFS.

An attorney EXPERIENCED in CPS and DCFS cases and courts is mandatory! Juvenile Dependency courts are worlds unto themselves. Your most seasoned and experienced lawyers when first stepping human foot into a Juvenile Dependency court are totally dumb struct as if they stepped into It'due south a Small World at Disneyland. Nearly lawyers –even experienced Family unit Law attorneys– who are non experienced with CPS/DCFS mistakenly think that information technology is their job (every bit information technology would be in any other court setting) to find out what CPS or DCFS wants and then communicate all the details to their clients. Shockingly, doing exactly that often leads to total disaster and the loss of your children.

5: Be courteous and polite to CPS social workers & investigators.

Let's face it, when a "government investigator" –without whatever avant-garde discover– knocks insistently on your door, well-dressed, looking all official with a canton badge; exuding the authority of the government; is well-prepared, PRIMED and READY to level accusations of child abuse or neglect against yous: near people would be SHOCKED! If you're human you'd too be scared too. As government is getting bigger and bigger every year they are getting more and more than powerful and intrusive in the lives of ordinary citizens. We are all a flake nervous and threatened by the power of the state equally nosotros witness weekly examples of authorities power wielded unfairly on Investigative TV News programs and in the lives of our ain families and friends.

What could your reaction maybe be to a surprise home-visit from a regime agent? No one appreciates surprise visits by any ane! Perhaps the dishes are unwashed; perchance you haven't cleaned house for a 24-hour interval or 2; say that there are a collection of beer bottles on the coffee table from the football the mean solar day earlier; could exist that you're not dressed in advisable attire as you would be IF EXPECTING guests… So when you are surprised and Defendant TO YOUR FACE of child fail or child abuse it might be natural that you are shocked, defensive, upset, angry and a lilliputian hostile. As Homer Simpson would say: "Exercise'ah!"

Estimate what? An angry demeanor toward the CPS social worker or DCFS investigator is considered prove of your guilt. Your perfectly natural, upset and angry reaction to being accused of harming your child will very OFTEN Exist USED equally prove of your violent and abusive personality.

6: Never invite any CPS or DCFS social worker or investigator into your home unless he or she has a warrant or court order.

If a Canton CPS/DCFS social worker requests that you invite them into your home politely decline. If he or she insists or suggests that not allowing entry will work against you or will ensure that your children are taken away from you HOLD YOUR Ground. Politely enquire to see their warrant or courtroom order to come into your home. It the CPS social worker or investigator claims to take a warrant, insist on seeing it: in fact they owe you lot a re-create! Why? Would a Social worker lie? Yeah. Police and authorities agents often advise they take a warrant or outright lie and claim to have a warrant when they do non. Information technology makes their chore of finding needed evidence against you so much easier! If the CPS/DCFS government amanuensis cannot produce a warrant, firmly merely politely tell them that they will have to remain exterior until a warrant is presented. They will be bellyaching. But you will exist far better off – legally. If the agent says it is an EMERGENCY phone call their bluff. Insist that they explain how it is an emergency and what constitutes an emergency. Typically, in so-chosen "emergency situations," the constabulary and the CPS social workers come up together and even then it is not necessarily an emergency but a working relationship that some CPS agents take with associates on the constabulary strength.

Exercise not even open the door to allow the CPS amanuensis look into your home to see your children: they tin can see something that creates an "emergency situation" even if it is not true.

Be FIRM. Y'all should not waiver nor give in to thinking: "What's the harm?" In that location is no compromise here: no exception. If y'all invite a County CPS investigator or a Los Angeles DCFS social worker into your home, you lot have just waived your Federally-protected fourth amendment constitutional protection. Just similar a police detective intent on hauling you to the police station for questioning would love for you to willingly invite them into your habitation, a CPS social worker who is openly or secretly intent on taking your children from you WILL Discover SOMETHING IN YOUR Dwelling TO JUSTIFY THE REMOVAL OF YOUR KIDS.

This happens every day all over America and even more often in Southern California where CPS and DCFS agents are the most ruthless social workers anywhere. The bar for removal is "whatever it needs to be" as far every bit the social worker is concerned. A legal prescription in your bath cabinet, a beer bottle on the coffee table, a kitchen knife not in the drawer, a broken window, a dorsum door without a deadbolt, a missing smoke detector, a pond pool without its own secondary safety fence: whatever might be necessary to fill out the paperwork to justify removal. If this particular social worker set out to take your child, allowing them innocently into your business firm will ensure that your child is taken from you. You now have a year or a lifetime of HELL earlier you.

7: Need that CPS tape any interrogation of your child.

Subjective reports of what a kid said or did non say is hardly e'er adequate. Inquire that whatever interrogation be recorded. Y'all could produce your own recorder (as a back-up) simply in case the CPS or DCFS investigator "loses" their record between the interrogation and a subsequent court hearing where you might accept "wished" that you lot had such a tape.

eight: If yous are accused of physical abuse, immediately have your doctor give your kid a thorough physical exam.

Inquire your doctor to write a letter stating that there are no bruises or injuries observed, nor any other wellness-related bug that would raise any business or suspicion of child abuse or fail. Plainly go to a doctor whom yous trust. If a CPS or DCFS social worker suggests a doctor for y'all, or suggests that they know where yous can see a doctor at NO Charge (every bit attractive as that may be), NEVER visit with a doc recommended past CPS. What yous may not know is that these doctors are a regular office of the CPS organisation and they are normally called as skillful-testimony witnesses by CPS as a witness against the parents. They are paid amply for their testimony.

9: Create a list of relatives and friends who are willing and able to care for your children if CPS takes them.

If your children are removed from your home, or the court is demanding that your children must before long leave your dwelling house for some period of time it is e'er better that your children are taken in by relatives or friends. Are you lot aware that children placed in foster care are sometimes abused or mistreated by people working the foster intendance system for a "pay check?" In that location is the flip side to that where some truly loving foster parents sometimes become smitten with your kids and start their own campaign with the court and petition for adoption! Having your kids in foster care is simply adding one more level of stress and complexity to your plate.

10: Never admit guilt, even if pressured by a CPS social worker to practise so in substitution for leniency or getting your kids back.

If you are innocent of neglect or corruption why would y'all buckle to the pressure level of a CPS agent'southward demands to take you admit to false accusations? If you are accused or charged with neglect because someone has informed the county CPS system that you are addicted to drugs or alcohol, the social worker who is investigating those accusations may have skilful-reason to be concerned for your kids' safety.

Even if y'all privately concur that maybe y'all drink too frequently or too much that does non mean that you have to incriminate yourself in this investigation. Bite your tongue. Admit Cipher! Fifty-fifty if you recognize that yous have a trouble that needs to be addressed this is non your DOCTOR; this is not your PRIEST; this is non your LAWYER. Incorrect person! Wrong fourth dimension! This person is non here to HEP YOU. This person is here to collect bear witness to support the accusations made confronting yous and to Take YOUR KIDS. Catamenia.

Practice not admit guilt. Instead, piece of work with your physician, pastor or even your private CPS defense attorney to find the professional assistance you might need need (and professional help that the courts will recognize – no sense paying twice because a treatment program is non court-approved). Past Non Admitting GUILT, you lot can then honestly piece of work on whatever issues you lot have and work with the courtroom to keep your kids under your roof or to get your kids returned to you when appropriate.

By mistakenly thinking that admitting guilt to a social worker is justified is often a fast trip to jail – removing many of the options that you lot need correct now to get your life in order. In any potentially-criminal situation NEVER voluntarily practice anything until yous contact an attorney: preferably a compassionate and understanding attorney who works with parents, kids and the Juvenile Dependency Courts on a daily basis. They will offering you frank communication that will exist better than unnecessarily sitting locked behind bars. CPS social workers and investigators are not to a higher place lying to y'all to encourage you to confess or admit to something that you might not even be guilty of – but to get you arrested and your kids in their control.

When you talk to me, Vincent West. Davis, you lot can be sure of ane affair, that I am listening. Child Protective Services (CPS or DCFS) and your accusers have their story, and it is our job to make certain that your story is heard and we keep your family together. If your kids or k-kids have already been taken, we will observe the best and fastest way to reunite your family.

Call me personally - 888-888-6582 - I am waiting to hear your story now, to defend you and continue your family unit together or reunite you and your precious loved ones.

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