{"id":28258,"date":"2016-02-05T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=28258"},"modified":"2016-02-12T11:23:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T15:23:32","slug":"anonymous-tip-chinese-worry-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2016\/02\/anonymous-tip-chinese-worry-balls.html","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Tip: Chinese Worry Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/tag\/anonymous-tip\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Review Series of Anonymous Tip, by Michael Farris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Pp. 200-207<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today shit starts getting freaky at the CPS headquarters. But first we have to endure Wally Elrod delivering legal documents again. It\u2019s Monday afternoon, if you remember, and Wally had just finished delivering summonses and complaints for the day when he noticed some new documents had come in, including one for Rita. Even though Farris tells us Wally never went out for a second round of deliveries and even though it was nearly four o\u2019clock. Wally decided to make the delivery so he could have a chance to make another jab at Rita.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He laughed to himself thinking about Coballo\u2019s comments at their last interaction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh yes, so funny. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2015\/08\/anonymous-tip-serving-subpeonas-to-witches.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s what happened last time<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">She did not resent being served, but when Elrod made the mistake of asking if she was\u00a0<em>Mrs<\/em>. Coballo, her feminist ideology took over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI\u2019ll thank you for leaving your sexist titles to yourself. It\u2019s Ms. Coballo, if you don\u2019t mind,\u201d she fumed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Elroy raised his eyebrows and said, \u201cHope your broom is working well to fly you to court on Tuesday.\u201d He was two months from retirement and simply didn\u2019t care anymore.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Ha ha ha. Funny. Gag.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Anyway, Wally goes to the CPS office and goes first to Blackburn\u2019s office and gives him the summons and complaint. Blackburn asks what they are, but Wally interjects\u2014\u201cDon\u2019t explain \u2019em, just serve \u2019em.\u201d Wally next asks for Donna and Rita. Blackburn phones Donna and Rita and they both come in. It\u2019s lucky one or both aren\u2019t out in the field, but then I\u2019m starting to think Casey\u2019s is the only case they\u2019re handling in the moment. Donna rolls her eyes when Wally gives her her papers. She starts to leave, but Blackburn tells her to stay. \u201cI want to discuss this so-called lawsuit after this man leaves,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">When Wally gives Rita her papers it goes like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<em>Mrs<\/em>. Coballo, here are some <em>more<\/em> legal papers for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cYou sexist pig,\u201d Coballo\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Blackburn shot her an angry look.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Elrod fined a shocked expression and turned to face Blackburn. <em>I deserve an Academy Award for this performance,<\/em> he thought to himself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cHe did this same sexist bit the last time he served me a subpoena,\u201d Coballo\u00a0said to Blackburn, ignoring everyone else in the room. \u201cHe also called me a witch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cOfficer, I will thank you to not harass my staff when you are serving papers,\u201d Blackburn said, glaring at Elrod. \u201cI\u2019ll have your job if you ever do this again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Wally\u00a0tells Blackburn\u00a0he\u2019s going to need a second job to pay for the damages Peter Barron is asking for, and that \u201cin just three weeks, I\u2019m retiring, so I\u2019d be glad to see you get my job, mister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The really perverse thing about this entire section is that I can just <em>feel<\/em> Farris chuckling while writing it. <em>Haha, so funny, feminists are so easy to rile up!<\/em>\u00a0But frankly, that moment when Blackburn orders Wally to stop harassing his staff is the first moment I\u2019ve actually liked Blackburn. It\u2019s probably also the first thing he\u2019s done what a boss is actually <em>supposed to<\/em> do, as opposed to leading his employees into unethical behavior.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Blackburn tells Donna and Rita to go \u201cget busy on this case\u201d and then calls Donna back after a half hour to discuss it.\u00a0We\u2019re supposed to know he\u2019s worried because he\u2019s playing with Chinese worry balls when Donna enters.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI assume you have read this lawsuit that you have brought on this department,\u201d Blackburn said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Okay, good feelings for Blackburn are officially over. He\u2019s the one who invented \u201cCode B\u201d and he\u2019s the one who approved her using it in this case and he\u2019s the boss, which means he\u2019s supposed to take the fall.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIt is your responsibility to get them off our trail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI don\u2019t know how to get them off the trail. I mean, I did go into that house without a warrant. I can\u2019t do anything about that,\u201d Corliss said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cOh yes you can, but that is secondary. Let me make one thing perfectly clear\u2014if our Code B operation is exposed in this case, you will regret the day you ever suggested that you use Code B in the Landis case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI\u2019ll do what I can,\u201d Corliss countered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Blackburn stopped his whirling of the Chinese worry balls in his hand. In a quiet but menacing voice he said, \u201cThe price of failure will be extraordinarily high. Extraordinarily high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Corliss thought her heart was about to stop. She could feel the tears welling up. \u201cUh . . . uh . . . OK,\u201d she stammered.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Um. That sounds like a threat. And Donna\u2019s kind of stuck in this spot because she can\u2019t exactly go to HR about this without admitting her involvement in Code B. Donna asks for Blackburn\u2019s help and says she doesn\u2019t know what to do, and he says \u201cIf I had known you were such a rookie I would never have let you employ Code B.\u201d It\u2019s definitely try that Donna isn\u2019t living up to her first-rate investigator reputation here, but then again, her boss did just threaten her, so her state of mine is probably not the most level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Anyway, Blackburn explains that the complaint claims that the tip was anonymous and that they did not have exigent circumstances (i.e. reason to believe there was immediate danger to Casey). The tip being anonymous is relevant because anonymous tips are given less weight than those given under a person\u2019s name. But you know what\u2019s odd here? Peter has no reason to think either that the tip was anonymous or that they didn\u2019t have exigent circumstances\u2014well actually, on that last one, Donna did wait a whole day to come back to Gwen\u2019s home after she initially denied her entry, so he\u00a0could argue that\u2019s evidence that there weren\u2019t exigent circumstances. But on the anonymous tip, he literally does not know either way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Anyway, Donna says this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cBut we go into homes all the time on anonymous tips, and we go in whether or not there is an immediate threat. All we require is a report of child abuse and we go in\u2014period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cOf course we do. But it is far better if we cover our backsides by pleading that we had information suggesting an emergency, and I want us to be able to say we were acting on the tip of a known, reliable source.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">This is at the heart of Farris\u2019s critique in this book. Legally, CPS may only enter a home without permission if they have a warrant or exigent circumstances. Without one of these things, if a parent\u00a0denies them entry, they cannot enter. Farris has built a big part of his career on enforcing this standard, and has taken cases through the court system where CPS brought police with them and bullied their way in\u2014which is what happened here. In having Donna and Blackburn say what they do here, he is suggesting to his readers that is common practice for CPS workers to ignore the law. I don\u2019t know enough about how CPS operates either today or in the mid-1990s to be able to speak to the legitimacy of this claim, but it is central to Farris\u2019s fear mongering both in this book and in other forums.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Anyway, Donna objects, saying the hotline records will prove they\u2019re lying if they say the tip wasn\u2019t anonymous, or that it was an emergency. Blackburn tells her to go change the hotline records quickly, before they are subject to a subpoena. He tells her not to tell Rita or Stephen (her boyfriend) about what she\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">It was well after five as she walked down the corridor to her office. She saw and heard no one. The tears started to flow as she walked hurriedly down the hall. She did not want to be seen. She entered her small windowless office and shut the door. Since it did not have a lock, she move da chair agains the door and piled some books on it. It would do nothing to stop a real intruder, but somehow it make it easier to cry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Is Farris trying to write Donna compassionately now? This is confusing! Where is the devious hard-as-flint Donna we met at the beginning of the book?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Anyway, she logs into the hotline reporter database and pulls up the entry. Farris explains that it was possible to change the records\u00a0so that a clerical error or incorrectly entered address could be fixed, and that a note is supposed to be added stating what was changed. Donna changed three things in the report\u2014(1) the date of the report, so that it would look like she responded to it immediately when first visiting Gwen\u2019s home, rather than five days later; (2) the nature of the reported injuries, from \u201cunknown\u201d to \u201csevere bruising reported\u201d; and (3) the level of the report, from Code 1 to Code 2 priority.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Of course, Donna still needed to change the name of the person making the report from \u201canonymous\u201d to an actual name, and one that would be trusted and respected. For this she drove \u201cnorth across the Spokane River on Washington Street\u201d and \u201cup the first few blocks of South Hill\u201d to Sacred Heart Hospital. She went in and went to the cafeteria, where she got close enough to a nurse to read her name badge\u2014Nanette Gray, \u201ca fortyish woman with flecks of silver in her hair.\u201d She bought a newspaper and then walked back to her car, throwing the newspaper away on the way out the door.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">She was careful to obey all the speed limits as she retraced her route back to her office across the core of downtown Spokane. She thought if she was caught for speeding, somehow a policeman would figure out what she was doing and expose her.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0The paranoia is kicking in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">When she got back to the office she logged back into the system and pulled the record up for editing, zeroing in on the name of the complaint maker.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">She knew whatever name was put there, it would never be revealed. A general description might be disclosed. But, never, ever would the name of the actual person be disclosed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Donna entered \u201cNanette Gray, R.N., Sacred Heart Hospital.\u201d And you know what? This\u00a0whole episode would have been waaaaay easier with the internet. That whole driving to the hospital to read someone\u2019s name badge thing threw me until I remembered it was 1996. Proof that the internet saves us in gas money, I suppose.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIt\u2019s perfect,\u201d Corliss said out loud. \u201cCo-worker and a medical professional. She\u2019s absolutely perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">This done, Donna pulled up her notes and read through all of them to make sure they matched the new report. Farris tells us that she \u201calso deleted all references to the Code B procedures,\u201d which makes me wonder about her confidence, but he explains that \u201cher internal notes had never been revealed in any prior case.\u201d This time, \u201cno chances could be taken.\u201d All finished, she went home to find that Stephen wasn\u2019t home yet.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">She opened her first bottle and proceeded to drown her fear of the Washington State Top Child Advocate of 1993 in a cheap California wine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The next morning (Tuesday) Donna brought the \u201cnew and improved\u201d documents to Blackburn, who was rapidly working\u00a0his Chinese worry balls. He tells her she did excellently, and especially compliments her choice of a nurse. He asks if she\u2019s real and she says yes, that she visited the hospital and read her badge. Blackburn says he went over McGuire\u2019s \u201csanitized\u201d report the night before and was pleased with the result.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cHe only made one stray reference to our arrangement, but it was in code and he had a brilliant explanation for it. I think everything is going to be fine. Just fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Myself, I\u2019m not so sure. Points to whoever can remember what Aaron does for a living! Regardless, this has become less a book about CPS overreach and more a book about whether a corrupt\u00a0bureaucratic agency can successfully pull off a coverup without an\u00a0intrepid and dashing lawyer revealing it. But then that\u2019s probably what Farris thinks CPS overreach <em>is,<\/em>\u00a0and somehow, that\u2019s not all that scary. It\u2019s a story we all know, and a story in which we all know who to route for. A story that reveals\u00a0structural flaws in CPS policies and workings that result in the pitting of\u00a0good parents against honest and well-meaning social workers and CPS staff?\u00a0<em>That<\/em>\u00a0would have the potential to be scary.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay in touch! Like Love, Joy, Feminism on Facebook:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-page\" data-href=\" https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LoveJoyFeminism \" data-width=\"500\" data-small-header=\"false\" data-adapt-container-width=\"true\" data-hide-cover=\"false\" data-show-facepile=\"true\" data-show-posts=\"false\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<blockquote cite=\" https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LoveJoyFeminism \"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LoveJoyFeminism%20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Love, Joy, Feminism <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today shit starts getting freaky at the CPS headquarters. 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