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May 27, 2014

Child welfare session gets off to a slow start before bills introduced

Arizona lawmakers opened a special session to overhaul the state’s child welfare system with a sputter, beginning the session without having finished preparing the bills needed to create a new Department of Child Safety.

May 22, 2014

Governor asks for nearly $60 million to help solve child welfare problems

Gov. Jan Brewer is asking for nearly $60 million in a special session to begin May 27 to overhaul the state’s child-welfare agency and to close out a backlog of 14,777 abuse and neglect cases.

Arizona Dept. of Juvenile Corrections Director Charles Flanagan speak during a public forum intended to solicit ideas on improving the Child Protective Services agency amid revelations that more than 6,500 child abuse and welfare reports were illegally closed without an investigation, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Apr 23, 2014

Flanagan provides details on CPS breakdown: “This organization was sick”

A small group of child welfare workers made a "dysfunctional" decision to set aside child abuse calls to soften their workload and then tried to hide it.

Dec 16, 2013

CPS reports detailed rise in uninvestigated cases

The rapidly rising number of uninvestigated abuse and neglect reports at Child Protective Services was documented in years of reports to the governor and Legislature, Department of Economic Services Director Clarence Carter confirmed Monday.

Dec 16, 2013

Governor says she expects to learn soon who is to blame for latest CPS crisis

Gov. Jan Brewer is willing to give Clarence Carter the benefit of the doubt about his culpability in more than 6,500 uninvestigated complaints of child abuse -- at least for the time being.

Jul 24, 2013

No witnesses, no evidence

Senator blasts CPS after police decide not to pursue charges against him, CPS still investigating
Peoria police found no evidence to support allegations that state Sen. Rick Murphy sexually abused two children living in his home and did not recommend any charges against the senator, according to a police report released July 24. But officials with Child Protective Services are s[...]

Phoenix police detective Gregory A. McKay, shown in this undated handout photo provided by the Arizona Office of Child Welfare, is on loan to the state to serve as the new new Office of Child Welfare Investigations office chief. McKay wants to fill in cracks that he says can be deadly for children and haunting for those trying _ but failing _ to protect them. The unit’s creation was the chief recommendation of a task force appointed by Gov. Jan Brewer in response to a series of publicized serious child-abuse cases. (AP Photo/Arizona Office of Child Welfare)
Dec 26, 2012

CPS official wants to close gaps endangering kids

The head of the new investigations unit of Arizona's Child Protective Services wants to fill in cracks that he says can be deadly for children and haunting for those trying — but failing — to protect them.

State faces big increase in requests to take abused children from parents
Dec 3, 2012

State faces big increase in requests to take abused children from parents

A surge in the number of dependency cases is overwhelming juvenile courts around the state, straining the foster-care system and prompting agencies in the child-welfare system to ask for millions more dollars for the next fiscal year.

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