“All Rise!” Suel vs. MDHS (videos)

“All Rise!”   Suel vs. MDHS  (videos)

At approximately 5:00 PM, August 15, 2013, State Court Judge Denise Owens issued Preliminary Injunction halting the implementation of the for-profit XEROX Corporation’s e-Childcare™ finger scan method of payment to providers.

In a final interview held at the Court House following the decision, the plaintiff was asked to share how she felt emotionally.

She responded:

“I feel as though I have been released from bondage.”

                                                                                                                                         Deloris Suel

Delta Providers received permission to film both days of Suel vs. MDHS in order to allow those of you who could not travel to Jackson to now “attend” Hinds County Chancery Court in the comfort of your own homes or centers.

After viewing,  please consider giving $10 or $25 or what ever you can afford to give this week to the Child Care Legal Fund. You may make your deposits to: MFCF Keep Mississippi Working at any Regions Bank!  (Our attorney is outstanding as you will see and needs to be paid for past and any future work!)

“How Are They Screwing the Taxpayers?”

                                                        Paul Gallo questions MDHS Executive Director Ricky Berry

To set the tone, I have provided an August 8, 2013, video of MDHS Executive Director Ricky Berry in a talk radio interview with Paul Gallo on Supertalk Mississippi. It is important to hear the accusations of fraud used, perhaps, to inflame racial bias in order to build public support for e-Childcare™ in Mississippi.  Also note the misinformation he spills on the number of licensed and non-licensed providers accepting low-income children and on two separate e-Childcare™ law suits. (The state has 1,650 licensed child care centers. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2011 showed more than 1,300 state centers accepting child care assistance certificates of payment.)

Please note at minute mark (2:55), Ricky Berry revealed the true way DECCD would see a savings– by paying providers for actual attendance from the time a child is checked in only up to the time the child is checked out each day and NOT full day fees for full-time slots as we receive now.

Compare that to Part One, August 15, 2013, at minute mark (20:56) where Jill Dent claims she will continue to pay full-time rates for full-time slots even if a child is in attendance for only one minute on any given day and after already acknowledging the use of Louisiana’s methodology for determining “savings” projections for Mississippi. (Louisiana pays in hours and minutes for actual attendance. That IS the XEROX Solution!)

So. who do you believe? 

Review the videos below.

I am so proud of each and every provider who stayed together without submitting the Monkey Survey to MDHS or committing to e-Childcare™ against your wishes.

I am proud of those who did submit the Monkey Survey but were planning to opt out pending the Court decision!

Let me hear your thoughts on Judge Owen’s decision.

In the meantime, yáll stop that stealing!  🙂