March 28, 2009

DCF Violates Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Sec. 504

Staff Writers
Connecticut DCF Watch
National Civil Rights Advocates For Families

Hartford, CT - Routinely, the Department of Children and Families (DCF) violates both children's and parent's rights to association do to disabilities. The following is just a small list of the violations. Not only do they violate them, they will terminate your rights for any physical disability even those disabilities that can not be rehabilitated. Not being able to take care of a child is legally insufficient to remove or terminate your rights. You simply provide the needed services until the child is old enough to help mom and dad.

(1) The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Sec. 504,
(2) C.G.S. 46a-58(a),
(3) C.G.S. 46a-64a,
(4) Americans With disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.
(5) Article 1, Section 20, Connecticut State Constitution, 46a-71

There is one case here in Connecticut where DCF workers knowingly terminated a mother's parental rights simply because she had a TBI (traumatic brain injury). This mother looks and sounds like anyone you know and has several jobs to support herself. Children have the right to live with parents whether their blind or have any other type of disability.

If you are unable to take care of a child due to a disability, DCF must accommodate that disability, not terminate your rights because of it. In fact Assistant Attorney General, Betty Paul and DCF worker Pam Lucier make it their goal to terminate the rights of disabled parents. They totally disregard the feelings of the child to live with parents with disabilities.

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