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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe there is an issue with tips not being followed up on (as discussed earlier in this thread) as well as with the investigations conducted into the tips.  I know of someone who was investigated for residency fraud and cleared the appeals process in spite of having very poor documentation.  In that case, it was not a false address provided but rather an informal custody grant (ie, a letter saying that child needed to stay with grandparents for a period due to financial instability of the parents).  I was floored that the case was dropped.  I mention this to point out two things:  (1) tips don't help if the follow-up process is flawed or deficient, and (2) it is not always residency fraud but sometimes false custody arrangements.[/quote]

And what's the issue with a child staying with their grandparents when they need to? I don't understand the kind of mean-spirited person who seems to think that a case like this is fraud. I know more than a few families like that all over Shepherd Park. Are those kids not entitled to go to Shepherd?[/quote]

PP here.  The child in question was not staying with the grandparents.  Not at all.  Nor was there any financial instability.  I agree that there are complicated situations out there, but this was not one and I was surprised that a letter regarding an informal custody arrangement was sufficient for years and years.[/quote]

How do you know there was no financial instability?

I feel like this is an area in which the expectations of middle class white folks butt up against cultural realities in communities of color.  Informal kinship care is [b]much[/b] more common in communities of color than it is in the white communities.  So much more common, for a whole ton of reasons that run the gamut from communities of color being less geographically spread out, to a history of wanting to keep kids out of the system.  So...you do get kids living informally with their grandparents but no formal change of custody.

This can be confusing for white folks encountering it for the first time, and look like fraud.  In reality, it is a cultural difference.  [/quote]

For goodness sake, why do folks always blurt out the exceptions - we get it  :roll:  :roll:  :roll: If there is a legit reason you are staying with grandma provide the docs and keep it moving. However, there is no way that most of the fraud is the exception to the rule. Grandma's kids can stay  :roll:  :roll:  :roll: [/quote]

The point is that it is informal, there is family instability, so there are not always "docs". [/quote]

And wha about with the Escalade kids?![/quote]

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