Wenatchee LE & Prosecution alleged abuse of power... 1998-FEB: Two reporters, Mike Barber and Andrew Schneider, culminated a 6 month investigation by writing a series of 5 major articles in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. They had interviewed 237 people and reviewed over 23,000 documents. They uncovered additional irregularities in the Wenatchee investigation. Once this series was published, the full range of the horrors at Wenatchee became public knowledge. 1998-MAR-5: Janet Reno, U.S. Attorney General announced that she was reviewing her earlier decision to not conduct a federal investigation. 1998-MAR-9: Washington State ACLU sent a letter to Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) Secretary Lyle Quasim, asking that they investigate its treatment of children in state custody. They asked that the adoption of 17 children be terminated. Kathleen Taylor, ACLU Executive Director wrote: "Given the wide-ranging violations of basic fairness in the conduct of the Wenatchee investigations, we are concerned that parental rights may have been terminated by the state based on coerced confessions, false information or inadequate facts."
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:32:37 +0000