Brewer 'abolishes' Arizona's troubled CPS. By Jared Dillingham, January 13, 2014. AZ Family Ch. 13, Phoenix, AZ.
"On Monday, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer used her annual State of the State address Monday to announce decisive action to overhaul the state's child welfare agency, pulling Child Protective Services from its current department and placing it under the oversight of a new Cabinet-level post reporting directly to the governor.
Brewer called the executive order that "abolished CPS as we know it" a critical step to protect children in the state, a move made more pressing by the discovery in November of more than 6,500 uninvestigated child abuse and neglect reports."
Brewer called the executive order that "abolished CPS as we know it" a critical step to protect children in the state, a move made more pressing by the discovery in November of more than 6,500 uninvestigated child abuse and neglect reports."
(for full article, see: www.azfamily.com/news/New-head-of-Arizona-CPS-plans-overhaul)
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Yet one more body of evidence specific to Arizona's broken public resource system, most specifically in the context of the state's most at risk and vulnerable to negligence, exploitation, and abuse citizens. As the very recent/related development in terms of the Arnold v. Sarn class action lawsuit filed (over 33 years ago) on behalf of Arizona's most seriously mentally ill and disabled citizens shows, graphically unlawful indifference to the significance of these issues has been occurring for at least three decades. This has been furthered by the willingness of Arizona's highest level public health officials to ignore all/any forms of data specific to such issues as a matter of standard protocol. Until, that is, the issues have reached absolute crisis, only exposed largely in relation to media sources who have the integrity to report such issues on behalf of Arizona's citizenry. At this time, ADHS Director Will Humble has yet to engage in open discourse specific to the grossly substandard medical-mental health care practices and condition at The Arizona State Hospital, which have been irrefutably exposed in numerous major media reports over a period of no less than 24-36 months, arguably beginning with the May-June 2011 cover up of the violent escape of ASH patient JESUS MURIETTA, and the directly associated late August 2011 murder of Phenix citizen APRIL MOTT- her very tragic death being something that would not have occurred if ASH administrators and senior medical clinicians had abided by law on behalf of the public's welfare and report Murietta's escape when it occurred, 12 weeks before Ms. Mott was brutally murdered at Murietta's hands (see: "Victim's Family Questions Why Man Was Free" [by JJ Hensley, AZ Republic, Sept 29, 2011; also see this blog: "RERUN. One citizen dead, another one wasting away in prison: Of Jesus Rincon Murietta" [December 23, 2013]). Since the onset of this 30 month old cycle of violence and related failure of state officials to take direct and immediate action, which did cause the death on an innocent Phoenix citizen, as well as that of a 23 year old ASH patient (and not to mention the fact that an ocean of unreported harms caused in the same context), a wide body of other like evidence specific to the unlawful practices of ASH administrators and clinical staff has come to light in at least six very disturbing media reports (see: Politics/Government-News Series Insanely Insecure: Escapes from the Arizona State Mental Hospital. by Dave Biscobing, Mark LaMet, Gerald Watson. ABC Ch15 [Phoenix] http://www.abc15.com/dpp/about_us/news_releases/abc15-honored-by-natas-with-2013-station-excellence-emmy-award); and yet no meaningful response has been expressed by any member of Humble's vast network of ADHS/BHS staff, including former ASH Director/CEO Cory Nelson, who acted in that position for a twelve month period of time (2011-12) during which the bulk of these issues are known to occurred. And as I have pointed out more than once, Nelson was virtually rewarded for willfully denying such issues, promoted by Humble into his current position as Deputy Director of the entire AZ Behavioral Health Services system.
Only In Arizona Personified. Yet again.
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