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#JusticeforJane lawyer: We’ll stick w/ federal judge if agreement can’t be reached

@CTDCF placement announcement
followed 2-plus months confinement
in adult jail despite absence of criminal charges
&
securing of U.S. District Court hearing June 16

HARTFORD >> A 16-year-old transgender girl detained without criminal charges at an adult women’s prison in Connecticut for the past two months has been accepted into a private treatment center for youths in Massachusetts, the top child welfare official in Connecticut said Thursday.

Department of Children and Families Commissioner Joette Katz said she expects the girl to be brought to the treatment center within the next two weeks. Officials didn’t disclose the center’s name or location. Katz said the relocation is tentative, because the girl has the right to ask for a hearing if she objects ...

Story via NH Register

BACKGROUND:

KSFR Santa Fe Public Radio Digs In To CT Jane Doe Case #JusticeforJane

DCF boss / ex-judge Katz has robitis bad, and that ain’t good

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More Cool Justice: Hartford Courant refugee site notes upcoming appearance by author Andrew Kreig at Litchfield’s Oliver Wolcott LibraryCool Justice Blog

Hartford Courant refugee site notes upcoming appearance by author Andrew Kreig at Litchfield’s Oliver Wolcott Library

Topic:
Protecting Connecticut’s Civic Culture
from the National Surveillance State

The NSA and other surveillance issues are in the news, with new disclosures all the time. I’ll have amplification on how surveillance and retrieval can have the potential to undermine the freedoms we take for granted.
-- ANDREW KREIG


Andrew Kreig, one of former Courant publisher Mike Davies’ least favorite people, will be speaking June 19 about his new book: Presidential Puppetry …

Complete post at Courant refugee site

Library registration

Before the library appearance, Kreig will also speak at a meeting of the Litchfield-Morris Rotary honoring foreign exchange students … details to follow ...


Cool Justice column on Kreig & Presidential Puppetry

Here’s a message from Kreig about his upcoming CT tour:

Hi Everyone!

I’m thrilled to return to the region where my reporting career began in 1970 with 14 years at the Courant, and am grateful for the mention here on the alumni and refugee camp site.

There are other events in the works (including one on a date TBA in Hartford) for this and future trips. I’ll get out the word soon. If you don’t see anything please contact me: andrew.kreig@gmail.com.

It should be fun to see old and new friends!

Also, it’s relevant that the controversies stemming from my first book, “Spiked,” provided excellent preparation for the years ahead, including what I’m doing now in the barracuda tank of DC. As best I can tell, mine is first overall book about the Obama administration’s second term. More than two decades ago, I became a lawyer with a large firm in DC and then VP/general counsel and then president/CEO of the Wireless Communications Association, whose mission during my years from 1993 to 2008 was transform a vision of a wireless Internet into reality. There’s no way I could have proceeded, including a dozen years as president/CEO, without the experience of the “Spiked” research and its controversies as preparation. As it happened, Michael Davies left the Baltimore Sun and became an investment advisor active in my industry. I authorized publication in our newsletter of a financial column he co-authored, and welcomed him as an attendee when I spotted him at our annual convention one year. He called me “Mr. Kreig” at the time, though I doubtless remained, as noted here, among his unfavorites.

I share this update because I think it helpful for all of us to go beyond the past. Understandably, I’m best known to many on this list as somewhat notorious. For what it’s worth, I look on the book as an obligation and wouldn’t change a word. I moved on when it was done (including the defense of it for a year until no one was willing to challenge any of it publicly anywhere as far as I knew).

The lessons learned proved useful in DC in many ways, especially as I found new ways to compare rhetoric with reality. “Presidential Puppetry” draws on 170 years of history to reveal missing information that makes more understandable today’s headlines — and what’s ahead in what are high stakes for us all.

If any of you are in a position for an interview I’d love to arrange one on topics apt for your audience. I’m speaking a lot these days on the 2016 race (why Jeb Bush will be the nominee, for example), U.S. legal reforms, the Ukraine crisis and on the 50th anniversary of the Warren Commission report next fall.

But we can’t be serious all the time, and I’m planning at least one of events to be festive and fun. Hope to see you!

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More Cool Justice: Good writing affirmed, free speech empowered since 1998 @CtYoungWriters; 17th annual celebration June 8 @CCSUCool Justice Blog

Good writing affirmed, free speech empowered since 1998 @CtYoungWriters; 17th annual celebration June 8 @CCSU

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Thirteen years before a young man was crowned prom queen at Danbury High School, certain faculty suppressed an award-winning short story for its homosexual content.
Candi Deschamps, now a teacher, most certainly was a pathfinder for 2014 prom queen Nasir Fleming and others who have been squeezed into the margins of society.

Fleming made national news last week as 600 fellow students cheered his election and crowning and the current principal took it all in stride. Deschamps as a high school senior refused to make changes in her 2001 short story, “Tragedy of a David Cassidy Clone,” which was rejected by the school literary magazine.


Rand Cooper, writing for Fairfield County Magazine in 2001, called “Tragedy of a David Cassidy Clone” a “wildly inventive story” set in Manhattan.

“There was a whole drama surrounding the story,” Deschamps told Cooper ...

Complete column at Register Citizen

Also at:

New Haven Register

Middletown Press
Blast from the past & June 8 preview



Musical Finale, 11th Annual Dinner,
IMPAC-CSU System
Young Writers Competition, June 2008, Litchfield Inn


Preview of 17th annual CT Young Writers celebration, June 8, 2014 @CCSU

17th Annual Connecticut Young Writers Finalists -- (State Champion[s] to be named on Sunday, June 8th at CCSU)

POETRY

1) Alicia Kiley, Greenwich Academy (Greenwich)

2) Matt Maguda, Rockville High School (Vernon)

3) Mallory Chabre, Rockville High School (Vernon)

4) Rhian Elizabeth Lewis Westover School (Middelbury)

5) James Gilbert, Newtown High School (Newtown)

6) Hannah Hudson, Westover School (Middelbury)

7) Gabrielle Cianciolo, Torrington High School (Torrington)

8) Jessica Conway, Jameson Wooster School (Danbury)

9) Heaven Stone, Arts at the Capitol Theater(Willimantic)

10) Kylie Kearney, Rockville High School (Vernon)

PROSE

1) Anna Whalon, Killingly High School (Dayville)

2) Hannah C. Hokanson, Manchester High School(Manchester)

3) Taylor Fournier, Rockville High School (Vernon)

4) Rachel Horowitz-Benoit, Edwin O. Smith High School(Storrs)

5) Jennifer Shook, Kingswood Oxford School (West Hartford)

6) Katherine Franqueira, Immaculate High School (Danbury)

7) Samantha Sheppard, Staples High School (Westport)

8) Joan Miller, Montville High School (Oakdale)

9) Greta W. Westfall, Home Schooled (Manchester)

10) Jonathan Dowst, Manchester High School(Manchester)

11) Lulu A Hedstrom, Greenwich Academy (Greenwich)

12) Selena West, The Gilbert School (Winsted)

Young Writers website

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More blasts from the past .... Bob Thiesfield photos


ACE POET
SLIDING INTO THE HARTFORD CLUB
West Safe @ Home; Crowd Cheers

Timothy "Austin" West, the Rockville High School poet and pitcher, accepts congratulations from Master of Ceremonies Diane Smith and CSU System Vice Chancellor Louise Feroe during the CT Young Writers 13th Annual Celebration June 3, 2010 at The Hartford Club. West was honored as Tolland County Poetry Champion and as a state finalist. Earlier that day, he pitched and lost a close decision in a state Class L championship game.


Patricia Smith at poetry workshop @CCSU, 2011


Charlotte Crowe, ’05 state prose champ who interned at The New Yorker, was a keynote speaker in 2011.


2010 Keynote Speaker Bob Leuci, retired NYPD Detective, Novelist and URI Prof, co-workshop leader.


2010 Hartford County Poetry Champion Morgan Finn with parents Martin and Christina Finn.

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Blast from the past: CT Young Writers video

Musical Finale, 11th Annual Dinner,
IMPAC-CSU System
Young Writers Competition, June 2008, Litchfield Inn


Preview of 17th annual CT Young Writers celebration, June 8, 2014 @CCSU

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