Now they have made it personal – even as I’m trying to help them.
Remember, they dragged us (TMEW and I) into this – we didn’t go calling them. As some readers may know, we are taking care of our Granddaughter and have been for over a month and a half.
Once again, we find ourselves “DCYF entangled.”
Unlike JR Hoell (DCYF tried to take his son away due to the meddling busybodies at CMC hospital over COVID ideology – Ivermectin – “ABUSE! HANG HIM!”), we are on the other side of the action. We are trying to do the right thing and are on the receiving end of the “data colonoscopy” just because we said we’d step up.
This is, however, giving me a fresh picture and a ringside seat of what may be happening to others (e.g., the rumor that some parents are getting railroaded if you reviewed my previous RTKs of that entity – there are more coming).
Wednesday, I received a call from my Daughter-In-Law to tell us that both TMEW and I may have been put at risk by DCYF. This was a brand new aspect of their process which I had never seen – and yes, I was outraged.
Here’s the email that I sent to those that I think are responsible and to one person that I think can remedy some of this (he did tell me to contact him anytime I needed anything).
A bit reformatted, emphasis is the same, with the correction of some minor grammar issues that I just saw. Take it in and think: this is the process by which Democrats wish us to accede: rule by the Administrative State. Which, as you will see, voids its own rules.
And yes, this email has my full email signature block – they know who I am (for whatever little it’s worth). Innocents have been redacted, the guilty (and those I feel are responsible) not so much.
—— Original Message ——
From “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To “Amy.Fortin@dhhs.nh.gov” <Amy.Fortin@dhhs.nh.gov>; “Lavigne, Christy” <Christy.L.Lavigne@dhhs.nh.gov>; <redacted>
Cc “Martin, John” <John.B.Martin@dhhs.nh.gov>
Date 6/30/2023 12:56:37 PM
Subject Has DCYF now breached my PERSONAL information?
My Daughter-in-law, Mother of my Granddaughter, just called me to let me know that DCYF has released my personal information. According to her phone’s history, the call came in at 15:31 on Tuesday and lasted 9 minutes, 29 seconds. The number was 603-752-7800, which upon doing a reverse-lookup, was the Berlin DCYF office.
While she did not catch/remember the name that called, she was told that DCYF was contacting her family members and friends to let them know where my Granddaughter can be found to contact her and she remembered some of the family names enumerated over the phone.
HOW DARE YOU release my information to people that I do not know!
I’m not going to write another Right To Know but I DO expect that you all will tell me:
- WHO called Sarah to inform her of this either from the Berlin office system or a DCYF-owned cell phone?
- WHO requested that it be released?
- WHO authorized the release?
- WHO carried out the action of sending it out?
- And WHO made the decision not to tell me and my wife?
- WHAT information about us was being released to those people as “pertinent contact information“?
- You shall supply the complete list so if someone shows up at my door at 3 am, I’ll know how to deal with them.
Oh, and my Daughter-in-law was told that since we are only “Fictive” Kinship care givers by this caller, any of these “family relatives” could demand that my Granddaughter be with them over us. As to that:
- Per DCYF regulations, I’m supposed to now spend $1000 to upgrade my fire/smoke/carbon monoxide sensors to be hardwired because the building code (according to Gilford Deputy Chief Brad Ober who did our Fire Inspection) as DCYF requires a more “robust” than just the battery powered units already in place for a Foster Family by most homes? Yes, the contractor is coming in after July 4th for that.
- The next contractor for replacing the steps up from the driveway is coming the following week (I hope; ghosting is rampant) – and that will be $6500.
All that money spent and THEN we might not have Julie even having done EVERYTHING that has been asked of us by DCYF? And you wonder why people aren’t flooding your gates to become Foster Parents?
All because DCYF sent our contact information to people we don’t know (perhaps also in violation of RSA170-E:9, I(a) (13) as well? Let’s add Federal regulation 42 CFR, Part 2, shall we?).
Oh, and what about this:
- Assistant Supervisor Christie Lavigne told the Eldest (full disclosure: my son and a prior Marine) that while he was being charged, DCYF couldn’t talk with him as being a “perpetrator”.
- After dropping that charge, a charge of Neglect was lodged against My Daughter-in-law.
[Added but not part of this email: I do wonder if the first charge was bogus as they knew they had nothing with which to prove it. I shall remain silent on the second – for now. Bait and Switch comes to mind – so does bullying and entrapment]
If what Lavigne told Dan is true, then why did DCYF contact My Daughter-in-law (now being a named a perpetrator) directly on concerning this release of our information? Isn’t that a violation of DCYF policy? Or was it a ploy to shove this disabled veteran into yet ANOTHER anxiety attack (see below)?
Congratulations on yet more stellar moves.
From:
- berating My Daughter-in-law for a lengthy period of time when you took My Granddaughter from her to send My Daughter-in-law into a panic/anxiety attack…Sidenote: My Daughter-in-law suffers from anxiety attacks because of a medical condition caused during her deployment on the USS Ronald Reagan which she TOLD you about and asked you to not “just show up at my door” because that triggers it. Yet, you did so.
- …during which Corporal <redacted> of the Colebrook Police Dept. had to step in and tell you two to back off to allow her to compose herself,
- that my wife and I also heard that verbal beating for quite a few minutes after DCYF asked me to beat feet to come and get Julie (a 7-hour round trip),
- and Amy Fortin covering herself in glory by blowing off my RSA 91-A demand (thank you, DCYF lawyer Amanda Knifeton, for that advice to Amy to do so) to the point that DHHS Deputy Chief Legal Counsel John Martin had to step in to apologize profusely and provide the information directly to me (again, much appreciated, Mr. Martin!).
Yes, we [TMEW and I] heard a good portion of that conversation as after asking me to come north, she simply put her phone down but DIDN’T break the connection as there might have been more to relay to me as I had already left. So we can attest to how you were relentless against a disabled veteran.
So this new incident isn’t adding much to being “awe-inspiring” from my point of view. “Thrilled” is not a word that fits the vocabulary that I am struggling with my digits from typing.
Oh, lest I forget, when I took my Granddaughter to the Laconia Child Advocacy Center at the direction of DCYF, specialist Amy Fortin (along with the CAC worker) demanded that I sign a legal document permitting that the information gained from interviewing her by the CAC worker (with Amy Fortin and the Laconia Police Detective supplying her questions via an earpiece) could be shared with other entities.
The problem with the waiver form that I spotted immediately was that I am not Julie’s parent and that I am not her legal] guardian so I was legally unable to give such permission. Still, both the CAC worker and Fortin insisted that I sign that form because they couldn’t proceed without it and they [continuted] to demand I obey over that for several minutes. I finally ended that conversation by informing them that I wasn’t going to put myself into legal jeopardy by signing something that I was legally unable to sign and left the room – I won’t be railroaded by people, as I told them, who didn’t do their homework well beforehand. As nice of a person the Laconia Police Detective was (I think he was amused over that last bit), I had no willingness to get to know him better while driving me to the Laconia Station if I had signed it.
Ms. Fortin was rather unhappy (mildly [speaking]) over that; she and the CAC worker, I surmise, found some other loophole to continue without my consent.
Oh, and let me leave this hanging out there? Did DCYF strictly follow its own Administrative Rules (re: https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rules/state_agencies/he-c6400.html) during this process – and that I, as a Foster Parent applicant in order to take care of my Granddaughter, will be held strictly to account?
No, Amy Fortin left a “shall” hanging in the wind (I’ve double checked that). As in that old joke about business travel, expense forms, and obstructive accountants, go find it (as in “find the boots”).
But as far as this last event, all I can do is quote my friends in the military often say: “OUTSTANDING!”. Wait until I start to really read through the Investigative Manual that Mr. Martin forwarded to me as I’m sure the results will be “interesting” (and I’m using the Engineer’s definition of the word). I’ll be following the investigation into the Berlin office intently as well.
So with all that said and written and written as appetizers, I return to the main course: what will your remedies be about releasing our personal information? I am willing to listen. I certainly have some things in mind but the ball is in your court.
I will draw this to a close with this admonition: consider Article 2-B:
[Right of Privacy.] An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.
Does DCYF, as the latest sexuality lingo goes, “affirm” this Right wholeheartedly? I have thoughts…
-Skip
Skip Murphy
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It will be “interesting” what this does. It took a couple of days to put everything into it that I thought belonged. I wonder he might be smiling, who might be grimacing, and who may be “twisting in the wind” knowing that, most likely, it will be a long time until Wednesday. Or later if the right folks won’t respond due to padding the long holiday weekend with vacation days for a “cheap week”.
And yes, the family members that know me have agreed to be my DEW line (now there’s a reference young’uns mostly won’t get).
