“This report confirms what too many families, advocates, and frontline professionals have long known, New Mexico’s child welfare system is in crisis.”
Albuquerque, NM – The New Mexico Department of Justice today released a comprehensive investigative report detailing systemic failures within the Children, Youth and Families Department and filed a lawsuit seeking to end CYFD’s misuse of state confidentiality laws to evade accountability and retaliate against the foster parents, caregivers, and investigators who tried to speak out.
“This report confirms what too many families, advocates, and frontline professionals have long known, New Mexico’s child welfare system is in crisis,” said Attorney General Raúl Torrez. “We are taking action to ensure transparency, protect those who speak out, and refocus this system on its most important responsibility: keeping children safe.”
The entire report can be viewed online at the link, below, or downloaded as a .pdf file from the same website.
Here is the introduction to the report, presented, in a readable image format for inclusion in the Las Cruces Digest Reading Room:
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