Gov. Doug Ducey appointed a veteran agency director to lead the Department of Economic Security, an agency that has endured years of controversy.

The former head of Arizona's social services agency has landed a job with the Trump administration.

The case has its roots in the finding in late 2013 that almost one of every 12 child-abuse complaints reported to Child Protective Services that year was not investigated.

Five child welfare workers fired in the wake of a scandal about uninvestigated abuse complaints will not be getting their jobs back.

Clarence Carter came to Arizona in 2011 to put his ideas for reforming the way government runs human services into action, but he found a backlog of child welfare cases that became synonymous with his time as the head of the Department of Economic Security.

A judge Thursday threw out a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by five former Arizona child welfare workers who were fired last year amid an agency scandal.

Clarence Carter, who was at the helm of Arizona’s child welfare system when it was revealed thousands of child abuse reports were set aside without investigation, resigned today.

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.

The attorney for five workers fired from Child Protective Services said today that the report which led to their termination was essentially a pre-determined fix.

A small group of lawmakers and Capitol staffers will begin making their pitch for a new child safety organization to the Legislature next week.