Ramifications

The ramifications for how Adrienne Driggers and Childcare Licensing operate and how we are fighting back are vast.

Adrienne Driggers' reckless management and the tendency of her subordinates to falsify write-ups of daycares make all of the information posted on the DFPS website unreliable for parents who are searching for daycare.  Parents, politicians, judges, attorneys, all accept the information posted on the DFPS website to be true. As you have seen from reading this blog, that is the furthest thing from the truth. . Daycare operators do not have the ability to tell their side of the story and are forced to suffer the consequences when a childcare licensing representative and/or the Childcare Licensing District Director is prone to committing libel.

The Administrative Reviews in which daycare operators can challenge the write-ups are notorious for being complete shams as they are typically administered by a Childcare Licensing Representative within the same office as the Childcare Licensing Representative's whose write-ups are being challenged. This massive conflict of interest was established by the Texas Administrative Code!

Adrienne Driggers' tendency to promote those Childcare Licensing Representatives who are prone to falsifying write-ups has created a culture of corruption where the individuals with the most power are the most corrupt.

The ease with which Adrienne Driggers is able to place innocent people on the DFPS Central Registry and close their daycares screams out for the overwhelming need for better checks and balances. She acts as judge, jury, and executioner without any oversight or fear of repercussions. Given that Adrienne Driggers clearly has far too much power, there must be a committee of both citizens, lawmakers, and daycare operators to approve those drastic decisions and to help ensure a fair, balanced, and uniform application of the punishments afforded to Childcare Licensing under the Texas Administrative Code for all daycare operators. If a daycare with 13 write-ups is being closed for posing "an immediate threat to children" then the thousands of daycares in Texas that have more write-ups should be closed as well.

The case for being able to report misconduct of Childcare Licensing Representatives and District Directors must be reorganized. Currently, the Office of Consumer Affairs is given that responsibility. Unfortunately, the Office of Consumer Affairs is within the Department of Family and Protective Services. It is part of the same State Agency as the one we are reporting. In our request for the investigation of Adrienne Driggers and Childcare Licensing, we provided the rules and regulations to support why we were in the right. Despite this, the Office of Consumer Affairs did not bother to call us for an interview nor did they ask for support documentation which we have plenty of. Despite Adrienne Driggers blatantly violating the Texas Administrative Code, the Office of Consumer Affairs responded by stating that we needed to go through the Administrative Review process. They were absolutely useless.

The manner in which we are fighting back also has major ramifications. Rather than being fearful and defenseless against what on the surface appears to be a monolithic entity we have successfully exposed this giant's weakness to the most monolithic group of all, the citizens of the State of Texas. Here in Texas, we have a natural suspicion of corrupt governments. We will also fight for the safety and well-being of children. What Adrienne Driggers and Childcare Licensing have done is not only corrupt; their corruption has endangered the lives of the most vulnerable in our community and has resulted in at least the molestation of two children and the death of our unborn child.

Through the use of social media, we now have a means to level the playing field against a State Agency that until now has controlled all of the information available to citizens regardless of whether or not that information was truthful. We now have the ability to expose Childcare Licensing Representatives for misconduct in a very public manner. I believe that Adrienne Driggers and her staff have been so reckless in their disregard of our Constitutional rights because they do not have any oversight. Through the use of social media, not only are we making Adrienne Driggers and her staff accountable for their actions we also have the ability to pressure our elected officials to protect us from her and any other corrupt State Agency.

The methods that we have used can be applied by any person against the largest of organizations. The greatest benefit in our war with DFPS Childcare Licensing are the tens of thousands of children in daycare. With each day that this blog and our petition are circulating, the possibility of Adrienne Driggers termination increases. The failure of her superiors to terminate her employment will only serve to further undermine the need for the Department of Family and Protective Services Childcare Licensing Division.