Thanks to The Herald and reporter Noah Haglund for the
comprehensive account of the scandal engulfing the Snohomish County Court
Appointed Special Advocates (formerly Vollunteer Guardian Ad Litem) program
(“Lying, spying and destroying evidence spur guardian reforms,” The Herald,
Aug. 18).
In some ways, the most damning revelation about the program
isn’t that its staff and volunteers as the story put it, “repeatedly crossed
legal and ethical lines.” It’s not the “lying, spying, [and] withholding and
destroying evidence” that the trial judge found “pervasive and egregious.”
The most telling revelation comes in the form of one step that
the Snohomish County Superior Court felt the need to take in order to claim it
was “fixing” the program.
And there's more about the Snohomish County CASA scandal here.
