Camreta v Greene

Here's a new website  from the  NCCPR  devoted to the Camreta v. Greene case, which will be heard by the US Supreme Court on March 1st.

Supreme Court to hear arguments on whether "children's rights" include freedom from unreasonable search and seizure

“Children’s Rights” must include the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure, according to a broad coalition of child advocacy groups supporting a family seeking to have those rights upheld by the United States Supreme Court.

The advocates are supporting a child known as “S.G.,” her sister, and their mother Sarah Greene. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on March 1 in their case, known as Camreta v. Greene. It is the first major case concerning child protective services systems to reach the high court in more than 21 years.

The child was only nine years old when she was called out of her classroom and forced to endure a two-hour interrogation by a male caseworker for the Oregon Department of Human Services because DHS had received a false allegation of sexual abuse. Sitting silently in the room during the entire interrogation was another man - an armed deputy sheriff.

The child repeatedly denied any abuse, only to be browbeaten by the caseworker, who kept insisting she was giving the wrong answers while questioning the little girl about the most intimate details of her life.

And doesn't this sound awfully familiar? 

"You're not giving the answer I want to hear, so I'll ask you again."

Reminds me of how the FLDS daughters were retrieved from their homes late at night, some from their sleep, to endure hours-long overnight interviews by CPS workers at the YFZ ranch.

"You're not giving me the answers I want to hear, so I'll ask you again."

It was hardly a "reasonable" way to conduct an investigation.

I personally don't have much hope that the Supremes will end bad practices by CPS folks, any more than Miranda ended bad practices by LE.

It will be worth watching, though.  Camreta v Greene