That rightwingers hate any kind of govt including that which protects children from predators?

If these werent rightwingers then I will be shocked, anything is possible.

but according to this, she restructured CPS and put it under different leadership as soon as she got the report. I'm surprised too, since I also assume the worst of repukes.

much more in character for the rw's.

This isn't a "Lazy people didn't want to work, so they deleted hotline calls" story, it's a "People had such a crushing workload they literally couldn't work through the backlog" one.

They chose the wrong way to fix it, but as the story says, they're at will employees, so coming out in public and denouncing the assholes that cut their workforce to the point they couldn't keep up with cases wouldn't have ended well either.

If the agency gets ANY federal funding the Employees must also be Civil Service. Even if they are NOT Civil Service, the US Supreme Court has ruled that when the Government hires someone, the Government is giving that person a "Property Right" to that job. A property right that can NOT be taken except for good cause (Which can include elimination of the position, or the violation of a known rule).

These rules is what Governors try to undo by going to contract workers. The worker is an employee of the contractor not the State, and thus no property right attaches to the job.

The biggest problem is if the Employees have a Union, then they would be advised of their options, including suing to get their jobs back.

Now, a Governor can remove people that directs policy, for that is what the Governor was elected to do, but he or she can NOT fire someone because they are "At Will" employees.

I do NOT know where the reporter obtain the information that the fired workers were "At Will" given that they have been on work since December white this was being investigated, Such a long investigation implies they are CIVIL SERVICE employees and it took this long to gather the evidence that they deliberately did NOT follow what was required of them. That would be good cause to terminate the employees, even if they were Civil Servants.

Remember the Government can fire Civil Servants, it just takes a little longer for whoever whats to fire a Civil Servants has to do the work to show the Civil Servant is NOT doing his or her job. That appears to be this situation in this case. If these employees were "At Will" they would have been fired in December when this scandal first hit the news, not now after an investigation.

Her and all the "Government employeez costs too much of the monies!" assholes cut the number of people to work on these cases until they literally couldn't respond to all of them, then try to act all heroic for pretending to fix the problem they made.

If you google "Arizona cuts cps" there's literally pages of stories about how they kept taking their funding away going back over the last several years.

Here's an alternate version of the story that isn't nearly as nice to Brewer: http://azstarnet.com/news/local/high-caseloads-turnover-at-cps-set-stage-for-recent-scandals/article_d32f0956-5cfa-54a8-855e-f3d6bd457def.html


ETA: Next step: Get rid of CPS and privatize to an unaccountable company that will fuck up everything they touch and cost ten times what CPS ever did.

snip*With a record number of children in out-of-home care — 15,000 in the state and 5,000 in Pima County — Child Protective Services is removing children from their homes at the highest rate in the nation.

Yet in the last two years, 67 Arizona children died from maltreatment even though they were known to CPS. Some had open cases, and others had cases that had been recently closed, the state’s annual Child Fatality Review shows.

Caseworkers lack time to get to know families or investigate properly because they are overwhelmed, often handling 75 to 80 percent more cases than state and federal guidelines say they should.

The agency is chronically understaffed, with Pima County’s CPS offices short 40 caseworkers as of July 31. More recent staffing numbers were not made available by DES, which oversees CPS. In July alone, nine workers here either quit or were fired, records show.

And earlier this week, a Phoenix resident found thousands of pages of confidential records in an alley and turned them over. The state is investigating how that happened.

By many accounts, CPS is now full of young workers who are short on the life experience needed to assess families struggling with addiction, mental health issues, unemployment and poverty.

this certainly answers my post above.

sent to jail forever?