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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.

Apr 21, 2014

House approves plan for external child welfare audit

The House gave preliminary approval Monday to a measure that would require an external audit of the maligned department of Child Protective Services.

Jan 3, 2014

Team poring over uninvestigated CPS cases finds most are routine

The team assigned to check on the safety of children associated with abuse calls that went without investigation has found no “significant’’ cases after seeing more than 2,000 children in the first month of work.

Dec 16, 2013

Child abuse records found near dumpster unrelated to larger CPS investigation

Thousands of pages of confidential records of child abuse cases found last month outside a dumpster are unrelated to the discovery that more than 6,500 complaints went uninvestigated, the head of the Department of Economic Security said Monday.

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.

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