Bring Lexi Home

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The Issue

There is a 6 year old little girl who has been ripped away from the only family that she has ever known. Her name is Lexi. The first year of her life she moved from foster placement to foster placement. Lexi has been with a loving, stable family for nearly five years and is thriving and a happy, healthy little girl. To Lexi this family is her everything - her mommy, daddy and brother and sisters. Unfortunately, since Lexi is 1.5% Choctaw, the state of California and LA County have allowed the Indian Child Welfare Law to devastate this family and abduct Lexi from her Mommy and Daddy on Monday to move her to Utah to live with a non-blood related family who aren't even members of the tribe, providing heartless and false justification. I'm pleading with you to please sign our petition & pass this around to everyone you know. LA County & California need to know that Lexi's rights, stability and permanence matter! Yes, this happened in America, let's make sure Lexi comes homes & it doesn't happen again!

Here is a link to the Court of Appeals decision regarding how the ICWA law should consider best interests of a child:  http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/archive/B252999.PDF

Please sign this petition so we can fight for justice for Lexi, whose only desire is to come HOME to her mommy, daddy, sisters, brother and friends.

Here's how you can show love and support to the family:

 

 

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Recent signers:
Isaac Sessions and 19 others have signed recently.

The Issue

There is a 6 year old little girl who has been ripped away from the only family that she has ever known. Her name is Lexi. The first year of her life she moved from foster placement to foster placement. Lexi has been with a loving, stable family for nearly five years and is thriving and a happy, healthy little girl. To Lexi this family is her everything - her mommy, daddy and brother and sisters. Unfortunately, since Lexi is 1.5% Choctaw, the state of California and LA County have allowed the Indian Child Welfare Law to devastate this family and abduct Lexi from her Mommy and Daddy on Monday to move her to Utah to live with a non-blood related family who aren't even members of the tribe, providing heartless and false justification. I'm pleading with you to please sign our petition & pass this around to everyone you know. LA County & California need to know that Lexi's rights, stability and permanence matter! Yes, this happened in America, let's make sure Lexi comes homes & it doesn't happen again!

Here is a link to the Court of Appeals decision regarding how the ICWA law should consider best interests of a child:  http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/archive/B252999.PDF

Please sign this petition so we can fight for justice for Lexi, whose only desire is to come HOME to her mommy, daddy, sisters, brother and friends.

Here's how you can show love and support to the family:

 

 

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The Decision Makers

Helen Berberian
Helen Berberian
DCFS
Responded
This expresses my gratitude to all those who are devoting their valuable time to advocate for this precious child. Every child under our department's supervision deserves our highest attention and a primary focus upon their best interests for safety, permanency and well-being. Since I am not in direct authority over Lexi's case, as soon as I was alerted to the unfolding actions, I took immediate steps to notify DCFS Director Philip L. Browning and Deputy Director Maryam Fatemi. I've also directly communicated with Director Browning this morning (Saturday, March 19, 2016) as a result of which Director Browning instructed me to refer all communications regarding Lexi via this petition to him, which I will continue to do. Mr. Browning will take every step necessary to examine each of the concerns you are outlining in your individual petitions.
Stephen Knight
Former US House of Representatives - California-25
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
Attorney General
Scott Wilk
Former California State Senate - District 21

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Petition created on March 19, 2016