[AH_LiveRight]

From the story- So far, no arrests have been made, but Wilson said his department intends to file charges soon. The state school safety bill, which still must be approved by the House, would appoint an independent ombudsman to oversee all abuse and neglect investigations in Texas’ 13 institutions for the disabled. It would require fingerprinting, background checks and random drug testing of all state school employees, and would install security cameras in all public areas of the facilities – something Perry Chief of Staff Jay Kimbrough says might have prevented the Corpus Christi situation.

The TYC (Texas Youth Commission) and HHS both have had rampant and widespread abuse. Patients (citizens) sold into sexual slavery, beaten, assaulted, robbed, raped, sodomized and more. All with taxpayer money, and no civil recourse. Government employees seizing mentally ill and handicapped children, and using them for "fun" and profit. Protected by Federal statute. And Texas is the rule, not the exception.

[a fool in paradise]

Don’t forget about how partisans within different government “regulatory” agencies abused their access to private information when it came time to dig up dirt on Joe The Plumber for the media.

There is absolutely no good case that can be made to give more power to our government. They have not shown enough responsibility or recourse.

[1010RD]

And the solution is...

Add another layer of bureaucracy.

[Varda]

Do you have numbers to go with those accusations? They sound very much like the accusations that appeared in the papers before closing the state mental hospitals. After they were closed the actual numbers were published and they were different than the word “widespread” would suggest.

Texas sounds like it’s trying a better remedy than outright closing the institutions. The problem lay with some of the people being hired.