What can be done about residential treatment facilities?

Question

Four Oaks in Independence Iowa for example is reponsible for numerous infractions of childrens rights and safety and as a former employee and mandatory reporter I notified the Deparment of Human Services but nothing substantial came of it except a mock investigation, entirely because Four Oaks is the lowest bidder and money comes before child safety for the government sometimes. Four Oaks is informed before there are so called random inspections, I known because they would have us clean up a day in advance. I've done all I can, people need to repond, and not just to this question.

Answer 1

You might consider passing this information along to your representatives in the Iowa legislature - you are represented by a Senator and a Representative - I'd give you their names but you don't say what city you live in. You can use this tool to find out the name of yours:
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/FindLeg/

Also, there's power in numbers, so you might also consider starting a letter-writing campaign to legislators. Former and current employees or relatives if the "inmates" might be a place to begin. Write letters and get others to do so as well.

Answer 2

what about reporting to the state board of health or to a news channel the t.v. news chanel might do an undercover story