After a public uproar, Texas Governor Rick Perry rejected a bill that would have given Children's Protective Services unusual power.
After the Lone Star State's legislature passed the legislation as an amendment to another bill, the alarm was sounded and the public rose to the occasion. Jonathan Saenz of the Free Market Foundation led the campaign.
"I like to call it a seize-and-ask-questions-later CPS bill, which would have expanded Child Protective Services' rights to violate the constitutional rights of parents and children, and allow CPS to come to your home and take your kids and examine them and question them regarding an anonymous tip," he explains.
Saenz adds that under the bill, that could happen without a court hearing, without notice to the parents, without consent, and even without good cause -- in spite of a federal court decision that requires constitutional protections to stay in place.
"So, it's just ludicrous that now the legislature would try to do an end-run around what the federal court decided," Saenz concludes.
Governor Perry's office was flooded with phone calls and emails before the announcement was made that he would veto the measure.
Source: One News Now
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