Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (left) with the man he appointed to take over the Department of Child Safety, Greg McKay. Photo by Michael Schennum, The Arizona Republic.
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This new report from The Arizona Republic suggests that it is business as usual in Arizona in the area of state-sponsored child kidnappings. Arizona has the highest percentage of children being removed from biological parents and put into foster care among the 50 U.S. States.
According to The Arizona Republic, Governor Ducey’s office is refusing to release a whistle-blower complaint made against Greg McKay, who is now the department director the Department of Child Safety.
Secrets won’t protect children
Excerpts:
When it comes to child safety, the level of openness can determine whether a child protection agency gets the scrutiny it needs to improve or simply uses secrecy to hide its mistakes.
Arizona’s failed former child welfare agency was stealth-prone. The agency that replaced it last year, the Department of Child Safety, was born amid promises to be more transparent.
But there are troubling shadows of secrecy.
For example, Ducey’s office is refusing to release a whistle-blower complaint made against Greg McKay, who is now the department’s director.
In response to a Feb. 20 public-records request from The Arizona Republic, Ducey’s office claimed attorney-client privilege…
There were tensions last month when Ducey fired Charles Flanagan as the department’s chief and put McKay in the job. A lengthy memo from McKay criticizing Flanagan’s handling of backlogged cases preceded the change. Under Flanagan, the department’s internal-investigations unit had investigated McKay and other employees.
When McKay took over, he eliminated the internal-investigations unit.
Read the full article here.
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