Judicial Misconduct: African-American communities

It was brought to our attention that Brooklyn, New York Family court Support Magistrate John M. Fasone is implementing the maximum possible support amount (100%), from unemployed African American fathers. This judicial misconduct and abusive behavior is extremely disturbing and may only lead to Wrongful imprisonment.(PRWEB) September 24, 2004 -- Unemployment, and the current budget and economical state of this city has been an ongoing problem, especially in the African-American communities, where families struggle to raise children, and face continuous challenges in the education, and legal systems. As always, our community is the first to suffer. There are too many African Americans fathers faced with huge arrears due to their inability to make full payment of child support for months at a time. These fathers without criminal records who are placed behind in their court ordered child support payments can be judged criminals, even felons, and imprisoned. We hope that individuals such as you can look into other means of addressing the Family Court issues, at least consider the struggles that these families must endure. Though the lack of child support among African-American fathers has been an ongoing problem in our community, I am sure there are other ways to address them, rather than just enforcing extreme punishments. This is a serious community concern where as many African American Fathers are unemployed considering the present economic recession. According to the Community Service Society 51.8 percent of Black males in New York City ages 16- 64 were unemployed 2003. And only 52.9% of Black Women in that work force had jobs. Black men suffered a 12.25 job loss during the recession. While working with inner-city youth, we see first-hand the results of lack of family structure, lack of education, and the need for funding of programs to help save the African-American family. We hope that with your leadership, you help us address some of these issues and look at other ways to address the Family Court issue.We urge any African American & Latino males, which may have been discriminated against to contact local Social Justice Groups & Civil rights organizations to further review Mr. Fasone cases.212-344-3005 or 212-382-6665.If you have any questions regarding information in these press releases please, contact the company listed in the press release. Our complete disclaimerappears here - PRWeb ebooks - Another online visibility tool from PRWebContact Information: Fonda Ray 212-344-3005; Online Web 2.0 Version