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Elderly v;--V -
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could avoid this kind of an employee" of boera-: According jith$uit,
tion Breakthroueh. who nere v041 nappenea
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thing in all cases," said !
Dan Hudgins, director!
of the Durham County:
Department of Social !
Services, 'unless you
have a third party con-
' tact with all your client
almost daily."
, : Dr. John ' Fletcher,
director of the Durham
' County; Health Depart;
ment, adds: "We don't
have a.policy of checking
up on our employees, per,
se, and we dpn't have in
vestigative teams."
, Both Hudgins and Dr .
Fletcher said that the on
is charged in the suit with
fraudulently taking a
woman's home who was
a client of the agency,
the employee has not
been dismissed. - 1
f Recently, the agency's
board of directors decid
ed, following a hearing
on the matter, that the
woman did not act In her
capacity as a
Breakthrough employee.
She has been subsequent-
ly '. reinstate from .a
suspension that went in-
to effect soon after the,
Mrs. Thelma
Brooks, 67, applied to
Operation Breakthrough
several years ago for help
on her energy bills, and
through that application
: met i Ms. . Rogers who
:' worked to get the older
, woman help through the '
'agency's emergency ;
energy program.
(Continued from Front) '
Mrs Brooks refused in-' m ,- oast." said Mrs.
terviews. - i Mary A. Broiighton, a
All officials of social coUnty elections board
services agencies inter- official, "and in some
viewed said that such an.i polling places, we just
incident as described in -? had a 0f problems." .
the suit should not hap- Voting procedure also
pen, but they conceded robbed the write-in and '
: that there is no way the i e Committee of some :
agencies can prevent it. ? ;: 0f its force.-though it is J
: CyBreakthroughnni unclear just how much.
the wake of the suit, has , Durham Committee
developed a procedure i chairman,' Willie Lovett 4
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dcsiguTfu ui ui icaoi ytw explains: in1 many
and reiect the votes that .our way would have been tell how effectively the
tne liiuiviaual aian i dcxict ior uc wme-w.
want recorded.
"This might have been
a more efficient way to
do it," Lovett said, "but
And so now. there's a
Inew political day dawn
ing in Durham on two
levels, and only time will
black community can
take advantage of th
Inew day, and turn a bold
stroke into payoff'
ly way they could know; suit was filed.
that a worker for their
agency might have
. operated illegally by tak
' ing advantage of a client
would be if an allegation
was reported.
"...the only way we,,
could detect something
like this is if someone
calls us and tells us," Dr.
Fletcher explained.
"Then the county legal'
office would have to in
vestigate it. And if we.
found the allegations to
be true, we'd immediate
ly dismiss the person.!'
. Interestingly enough,
however, in the case of i
The whole issue, of
how elderly clients can
protect themselves from1
unscrupulous social ser
vices workers arises out;
of the allegations in this,
suit. . '.-;v..;.j
The suit alleges; that f
Ms. Reathie Mae!
Rogers, an Operation!
Breakthrough employee,1
used her agency position
to gain the widow's
trust, and then tricked
the woman into signing
her .home over to the
worker and subsequently1
evicted the woman this
past winter.
Sometime durins
xate jviarcn iyB, Mrs. tially address the pro
Brooks got behind in her blem. . ,
mortgage payments and' According to McNeil,:
Ms; Rogers assumed the; the agency now requires1
two mortgages, the total workers to complete a ;
of which was less than 'form that details - the
j the market value of the ' name and other vital in-1
. home at 802 Lee Street. formation ' regarding'
Mrs. Brooks then every contact - that
mode monthly payments
to Ms. Rogers. : .
It is not clear from the
suit if the two women,
had any type of written-
workers make outside;
the agency. . v
But McNeill pointed
out that even this pro-!
cedure won t solve tne.
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High School Class of 1944, will be held at
Tapp's Chicken Hut, 3019 Fayetteville
Street, on Sunday, November 21 , beginn
ing promptly at 4 p.m.
EVERY MEMBER OF THE CLASS
whether you graduated or not, is urged to
be present.
For further Information call:
Ethylene Lyons Prayloe
682-2884 or 544-3553
or
Willie Mao Stewart
088-3008
agreement, or if the problem
payments made by Mrs.. ! "I don't believe that
Brpoks were rent or mor-; it's humanly possible,"
tgage payments. It is alsdf ... he said, "to prevent col-,
not clear if Ms. Rogers Iusion between two "or
paid off the two mor- ' more people if they want
tgages or merely assum- it . to happen. Unless
ed them. - -, ' . employees abide by . the
( Around March ofHrules, there cm always
this year, after , Mrs. ' : be situations where the
Brooks fell behind in her employee and the agency '
payments to Ms. Rogers,-. are placed in aa-embar-the
older woman was rassing position. But this
forcibly evicted, and her' is the .first time in the,
furniture set on the historv of this asencv
street.
In the suit, Mrs.
Brooks seeks to regain
ownership of her house
and to have $150,000 in
damages assessed against
Ms. Rogers, Both Opera
tion Breakthrough and
its director Fred McNeill
are named as defendants
in the suit.
Both Ms. Rogers and
that someone has been
'accused of something
'like this,' and I believe
that it shows that our
, employees are exemplary
people who generally
follow the rules.1'
Thus that leaves elder
ly people and other ser
vices recipients mdstly to
.fend for themselves in
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are two ways to do a
, write-in, and we recom-t
mended one way, while
election officials recom
mended another. The ef
fect was that Valentine
UT; "Tim") got some
votes in our precincts
that he normally would
not have gotten. The
write-in didn't get some
votes that it would have
gotten."
According to Lovett,
the Committee suggested
that people supporting
the write-in would vote 1
for the write-in first, and
; then vote the Commit
tee's endorsed slate in
dividually. But precinct officials
according to Lovett sug
gested that some voters
pull the " straight
.Democratic Party lever
first, and then go back
not being bilked by an,
unscrupulous agency
employee.
Unfortunately, accor
ding to Ms. Johnson,
allegations such as the'
Brooks suit, -whether
true or not, lead to a
decrease in trust between
recipients and service
delivery agents..
"But if a person has:
some suspicions about
an agency worker, then
the person can either
check with someone else
in the agency, or call
us," she said. "We will
try to find out what the
problem is and do
ing to alleviate
it."
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