By Peter Szymonik
The CT Law Tribune this week features an amusing and ironic commentary from Joette Katz entitled Junk Science and the Evolution of Criminal Convictions.
For those unfamiliar with her, Ms. Katz is a former state Supreme Court justice, former commissioner of DCF, and now a member of the mysterious “Editorial Board” of the CT Law Tribune.
Soon after she joined this board, the CT Law Tribune stopped publishing articles on problems in our “family” courts.
Ms. Katz received press notoriety a few years back for threatening a staff member who called her out for abusing a state privilege and using a state-owned parking space to park her BMW roadster, in addition to the space she was already assigned for her job. (Seems one parking space just wasn’t good enough for her.
Ms. Katz oddly writes editorial commentaries for the CT Law Tribune perfectly timed to coincide with horrific ‘family’ court events or DCF failures, citing what a “difficult” job people in these departments have.
This week, Ms. Katz writes about the problem courts face when “junk science” is used in criminal cases.
I almost spit my coffee up considering all the “junk science” “custody evaluations” used in our broken and corrupt “family” courts to tear children away from their parents and families.
Evaluations based on nothing, which provides no medical benefit, that insurance doesn’t cover (because the medical community does not recognize them), and parents are fleeced tens of thousands of dollars to pay for, under threat of sanction, losing their kids, or in some cases, potential imprisonment.
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“Welcome to The Rational Egoist. I’m your host Michael Leibowitz. Anybody who’s ever had to deal with the civil court system knows that it’s kind of a combination of going to the dentist and going to the DMV.
Today to unravel that for us is a former Connecticut Superior Court judge and a former member of the Connecticut General Assembly …”
If it’s a clean up tour, who’s the PR firm?
Instead of:
“Connecticut’s problem is the AFCC, Inc. for-profit purposely adversarial in-state and interstate networks running the show through private offices and judicial branch offices. Acting with judicial authority, judicial immunity and hundreds of millions of state and federal dollars since the 1980s broke state and federal laws. I’m working with DOJ offices right now to figure out how to unravel all those knots.”
He said:
“In Family Court, you’ve got family problems to sort out. And, what’s the future going to look like for this family? As opposed to, ‘Did that other person turn over every document that I demanded? And, since they didn’t let’s punish them for not turning over the documents.’ It all becomes about that sort of stuff instead of being about these people and their problems.”
That level of spin takes special skills.
It’s the federal welfare reform. It sparked the AFCC organization. It’s beyond the AFCC. No system would have allowed this without financial insensitive.
Did anyone ever ask Judge Moukawsher what he thinks about Connecticut AFCC, Inc.? Did he write about the racketeering in his book?
He doesn’t know about it, doesn’t care about it or won’t mention it.
The article on Junk Science for those who do not have a ALM account is here. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/search?q=junk%20science%20after:2023-10-16
Wikipedia: “… She lives in Fairfield, Connecticut and is married to Philip Rubin … He is the President of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS). … Rubin is the co-founder … of the IS Group, an informal, collaborative group founded in the 1980s of scientists and technologists from around the country exploring cutting-edge issues such as dynamical systems, evolution, artificial intelligence, linguistics, robotics, network science, neuroscience, and other topics. … On May 26–27, 2016 Rubin was a participant in the first ever White House Foster Care and Technology Hackathon. … From 2016 through 2019, Rubin served as Director and Treasurer of iGIANT (impact of Gender/Sex on Innovation and Novel Technologies) … Elected to Fellow of the American Psychological Association, … in recognition of outstanding and unusual contributions to the science and profession of psychology. …”
Meanwhile, Connecticut family courts and DCF “foster care” harmed tens of thousands of children and families.
She should have been found negligent when she was running child and family e. That required federal oversight. An embarrassing factor for Connecticut. Yet she became a family court judge.
why does anyone have unprotected sex ? colossal nightmare if don’t.
“Soon after she joined this board, the CT Law Tribune stopped publishing articles on problems in our “family” courts.”
Oh, I’m sure just a coincidence.
Katz is in on the child trafficking scheme in CFC.
What the hell?
Joette Katz is a prime example of the legal breeding being manifested in the state of Connecticut. Connecticut has been working towards cutting the cost of incarceration. In order to get along in the legal profession your position appears to have to be in line with the political goals. She is a long time problem that continues to gain power. The zealous representing of criminals but protecting victims has taken over due to political agenda. Civil rights attorneys, prosecutors and womens family law attorneys are almost non existent in Connecticut. The ones trying to do those jobs are quickly weeded out. The scales of justice in Connecticut are completely tipped towards the financial best interest of the state. The residents living in it have become of little concern. Have little to no attorneys to truely protect the public.
Why don’t people understand that this is effecting everything? If all the families can be subjected to this abuse that is bad.
It is not getting state wide main stream media attention! It is based on keyboard warriors trying the best to bring the corruptness to all!
A recent study commissioned by Dalio Education done by The Boston Consulting Group found:
“… in 2022 there were 119,000 young people in Connecticut who are ‘at-risk or disconnected,’ a number that represents 1 in 5 of Connecticut’s 14 – to 26-year-olds. …”
Ms. Katz was DCF Commissioner from 2011 to 2019.
The 14-year-olds mentioned in the Dalio study were born around 2009. They were around 2- to 10-years-old when Ms. Katz was DCF Commissioner.
The 26-year-olds were born around 1997. They were around 14- to 22-years old when Ms. Katz was DCF Commissioner.
When Ms. Katz was DCF Commissioner between 2011 – 2019, one in five 2- to 22-year olds were set up to fail?
Of the 119,000 14 – to 26-year-olds, the Dalio Education says:
“Fifteen percent of Connecticut young people aged 14-17 received select services from Department of Children and Families, which include (but are not limited to) foster care placement, mental health supports, and responses to allegations. Receiving these services is used as a proxy for a young person’s mental health needs and/or trauma associated with their family context, contributing to their heightened association with disconnection (2.3 times). This data highlights a group in need of additional supports. …
… Another study by Connecticut’s Office of the Child Advocate found that the vast majority of incarcerated boys (under age 18) were at some point involved with the Department of Children and Families for abuse or neglect. Children referred to the child welfare system often struggle with trauma associated with their family instability, making them even more vulnerable to associations with the justice system. …”
Among other report recommendations, they suggest, “ Individuals involved with the child welfare system are at greater risk of becoming at-risk and disconnected, partially due to traumas associated with family separation. The Department of Children and Families (DCF) should build on progress made through recent reforms to further examine its interaction with young people and explore ways to support them through transitions into/out of the system. …”
What kind of science failed so many young people in Connecticut?
Was DCF involvement and/or DCF neglect? The family court junk science isn’t mentioned anywhere in the report.
How many millions, tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars the Connecticut family courts take from those 119,000 young people and their families from 1997 to 2009? Those studying how junk science contributes to criminal cases, at-risk cases and disconnected youth cases should consider what those numbers do, too.
https://www.dalioeducation.org/news/connecticuts-unspoken-crisis/
March 14, 2001 …
“The Judicial Department does not keep records on the number of attorneys it appoints to represent children in divorce matters.”
https://www.cga.ct.gov/2001/rpt/2001-R-0292.htm
It’s 2023.
Does the Connecticut Judicial Department keep records on the number of attorneys it appoints to represent children in divorce matters, yet?
Well, well. Some one who finally getting it!!!! UFO sightings in family court system