# Dio couldn't be assed to provide a cite

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**Created:** [October 5, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dio-couldnt-be-assed-to-provide-a-cite/512613 "2009-10-05T00:45:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dio-couldnt-be-assed-to-provide-a-cite/512613/92 "2009-10-05T23:07:05Z")

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> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> If we agree that courts are always involved then I was right in saying the courts are always involved.

Except that it not even close to what you said. Care for a refresher?

> [@I don't like this kind of thing! \[Baby Snatch Victim Loses Kids to State Custody\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-this-kind-of-thing-baby-snatch-victim-loses-kids-to-state-custody/512533/9):
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> I don’t know the facts of this case, but just for the record, CPS cannot take kids out of a home. It has to be ordered by a judge. CPS can make a case to a judge as to the why it _thinks_ a household may be unfit, but they don’t make the decison. A court does. If these kids were removed, it was because a judge ordered it done, and the judge ordered it done because the evidence presented fit a prescribed set of criteria.
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> The image that CPS workers can, or even want to, just arbitrarily snatch kids away from homes is a bogus one.

And once again for the nth time, courts are not involved in emergency apprehensions. They only become involved after the emergency apprehension has been completed. Their authority is not needed to make an emergency apprehension. The police’s authority is not needed to make an emergency apprehension, although they may attend to keep the peace. The CPS has the authority to make the emergency apprehension.

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