Infant's death leads to arrest of former 'child care provider of the year' - Sacramento City News - sacbee.com
From the article above about Sheila Caceres, child care provider of the year in 2008:
"She also is being charged with "repeatedly" violating the state Health and Safety Code by placing unattended infants in the upstairs of her home, while watching older children on the first floor."
"Caceres' arrest stands in stark contrast to the image she presented in February 2008, when the Sacramento Child Care Coalition honored her as provider of the year at a downtown gala. Nominated by parents, she was lauded by government leaders and education professionals for her "commitment to building strong, trusting relationships" and her welcoming spirit."
What the article does not address is the possible failure of the state licensing agency in California for either giving her the license to begin with or not revoking the license for "repeatedly" violating. The article is not clear when the other "repeats" occurred.
As a licensor in Washington State I witnessed a provider keeping two babies upstairs in two separate rooms with both doors closed. Plus she had six other children hidden in another room. The second floor of her home was not licensed due to the fire codes. She was the only one in the house with 21 children.
Hers, also, was a repeat violation. What did my supervisor, Darcy Taylor, do? Taylor allowed licensed provider Connie King to keep her license.
I made whistle blower reports on that situation and many others to the Washington State Auditor's Whistle Blower program; and I was fired for doing so.
Now I have my own consulting business, I am an author, a trainer and I continue my whistle blowing as a private citizen to get my insider information and documents out to parents here in Washington State and across the nation.
One of my whistle blower reports to the State Auditor concerned state government managers ordering the alteration of public records then having the original records destroyed. Computer systems can make it easy to delete a record.
I advised Attorney General Rob McKenna and Governor Christine Gregoire as well of that violation of that crime. I actually advised Christine Gregoire when she was the Attorney General in 2002, the first time I had ever been ordered to change a public record in my then sixteen years with the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS).
Maybe Bill Gates being a Washingtonian and a computer genius will step forward and make a computer system where the managers can easily be exposed when they delete records out of the state computer systems.
I'll see if I can get my article to him and maybe get a reply.
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