Saturday, May 29, 2004

State Meddlers Get Their Comeuppance

When the state interferes in your life, and when doesn’t it, the state rarely suffers any repurcusions.  There always seems to be some excuse, or statute, or whatever for the state to hide behind, a sort of get out of jail free card.  Well, here’s a story, where a state employee, who did not like the parenting style of her son’s girlfriend’s parents, leveraged the power of the state for, I’m not certain, her benefit, her son’s benefit, or the girlfriend’s benefit.  Anyway, the offending parents, who were put into a position where they had to defend themselves from the state, sued the state, in this case Kent County, Michigan, for putting their nose where it doesn’t belong.  The state has cried uncle, and paid off the harassed parents, but the state claims, of course, no wrongdoing.  They only paid off the harassed to save money.

""We don’t admit any liability. We don’t believe there is liability,” Batzer said. “We’re paying a little now instead of having the potential for paying a lot later."

Makes it sound like the state is liable, to me.

“Kent pays $115,000 to end parental rights case."

Posted by John Venlet on 05/29 at 02:58 AM
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