Ionia County CPS is well known to be corrupt.
CPS has no checks and balances. No formal complaints. No accountability.
The thing about CPS that you have to understand is that they are mostly de centralized, they are never held accountable unless you take them to court, they don't even have a formal complaint procedure for worker misconduct. Yet, they are the ones trusted to protect our children and take children from parents they claim are not being good parents. They can not actually take children on there own, but they would be the ones to request the courts to do so. This is a lot of power and assumed authority for them to not be held accountable as individual workers. That is a system designed to allow the abuse of power with no checks and balances to prevent it.
Ionia County CPS workers have been known to abuse this power in numerous ways. They are known to target specific people/ parents for harassment while allowing other parents to get away with putting the children at risk.
The thing with CPS, is that the only reason they exist with any sort of implicit authority is to protect children. When "CPS Workers" fail to protect children and abuse there authority in ways that put the child(ren) involved at more risk, they no longer function with any sort of implicit authority as the justification for having had that authority no longer exists. When these workers abuse there authority and put children in harms way, they need to be held accountable as people doing this. They should not be allowed to be protected under the guise of being employees for CPS, and given the benefit of the doubt they were doing what they thought was best for the child(ren) involved when it can be proven they were not. Instead they are granted partial to full immunity by the courts, with no checks and balances, and they do not even have a formal complaint procedure in place to deal with the inevitable and frequent abuse of authority by their workers.
When Ionia County CPS worker Arianne Slaughter was caught knowingly lying in Ionia County FOC court trying to take custody of my children from me, to my knowledge she was never even held accountable. No one apologized to me. Her supervisor confirmed she was aware she got caught and assured me she would be held accountable but refused to even tell me how. The supervisor did not apologize to me at all or act like she really cared. She acted more like I had no rights despite the fact my children and I were both victims of her employee and I almost lost custody of my 2 children because of a corrupt CPS worker that was compulsively lying including in court. I literally had to work with CPS workers from other counties at different times in order to verify and prove, including in court, that the Ionia County CPS workers were doing this.
Ionia County CPS is well known to be corrupt. The thing about CPS that you have to understand is that they are mostly de centralized, they are never held accountable unless you take them to court, they don't even have a formal complaint procedure for worker misconduct. Yet, they are the ones trusted to protect our children and take children from parents they claim are not being good parents. They can not actually take children on there own, but they would be the ones to request the courts to do so. This is a lot of power and assumed authority for them to not be held accountable as individual workers. That is a system designed to allow the abuse of power with no checks and balances to prevent it.
Ionia County CPS workers have been known to abuse this power in numerous ways. They are known to target specific people/ parents for harassment while allowing other parents to get away with putting the children at risk.
The only reason CPS exists with any sort of implicit authority is to protect children. When "CPS Workers" fail to protect children and abuse there authority in ways that put the child(ren) involved at more risk, they no longer function with any sort of implicit authority as the justification for having had that authority no longer exists. When these workers abuse there authority and put children in harms way, they need to be held accountable as people doing this. They should not be allowed to be protected under the guise of being employees for CPS, and given the benefit of the doubt they were doing what they thought was best for the child(ren) involved when it can be proven they were not. Instead they are granted partial to full immunity by the courts, with no checks and balances, and they do not even have a formal complaint procedure in place to deal with the inevitable and frequent abuse of authority by their workers.
When Ionia County CPS worker Arianne Slaughter was caught knowingly lying in Ionia County FOC court trying to take custody of my children from me, to my knowledge she was never even held accountable. No one apologized to me. Her supervisor confirmed she was aware she got caught and assured me she would be held accountable but refused to even tell me how. The supervisor did not apologize to me at all or act like she really cared. She acted more like I had no rights despite the fact my children and I were both victims of her employee and I almost lost custody of my 2 children because of a corrupt CPS worker that was compulsively lying including in court. I literally had to work with CPS workers from other counties at different times in order to verify and prove, including in court, that the Ionia County CPS workers were doing this.
Arianne knowingly lied on the court record as a representative of the Ionia County CPS, trying to take custody of a mans children. She presented testimony to the Ionia County FOC when the man had proof from another CPS worker in the form of an email he had a print copy of. The Ionia County FOC worker already had knowledge of the case being cleared as well. The emailed proved Arianne had already been talked to by her section supervisor about how she was blocking the case being acknowledged as already having been cleared. Arianne was still testifying in court, on the record, that the case was still active as she was requesting this mans custody be taken. Ionia Ref Wierckz at the time of court refused the proof the man said, and acted like she was not informed of the caseworker already having knowledge of the case already having been cleared, as she told the man that losing custody would only be temporary. The man replied you will not take my children at all: your caseworker already has knowledge this case has already been cleared, and you are refusing to accept this email as proof to the record as well, that this Ionia CPS worker Arianne is not only lying but has already been in trouble by her section manager/ supervision that the case has already been cleared and she was told she needs to quit blocking that from being acknowledged. She was refusing to reply to the other caseworker who had jurisdiction over the case, and refusing to provide contact info to the other caseworker so she could confirm herself it had already been cleared, knowing the case had alredy been cleared. After this Arianne was no longer an Ionia County CPS worker but Ionia COunty CPS supervision refused to admit she got caught lyign on the record as a representative of the Ionia County CPS, and they refused to confirm how Arianne had been held accountable for it. We confirmed that after this Arianne became a social worker at a local school with parents of children known to have a lot of CPS involvement. This is not an appropriate place for someone that got caught doing what she got caught doing, so likley she was never even held accountable, just asked to resign.