CYFD Cabinet secretary Brian Blalock replaced by former New Mexico Supreme Court Justice amid growing transparency concerns
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Posted inEviction, Eviction Epidemic, Featured, Housing , Your Right To Know
Locked out
A Searchlight investigation finds that in spite of federal and state stays, evictions continued in the state.
Posted inChild & Family Welfare
Questions of fairness
CYFD employees say they were sidelined or fired for voicing concerns about a ‘sacred cow’ software contract.
Posted inChild & Family Welfare
Firing Back
High-level officials accuse the CYFD of retaliation against complaints about Signal and other concerns.
Posted inChild & Family Welfare
Seeking shelter
After suffering one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the country, this New Mexico town on the edge of Navajo Nation is reaching a breaking point as the federal eviction moratorium is set to expire.
Posted inChild & Family Welfare
Records without a trace
Records show CYFD destroyed communications on COVID response, other official documents. Employees who complained were fired.
Posted inSecrecy and Sacred Cows: Turmoil at CYFD
Agency underground
In the state department charged with child welfare, leadership and staff avoid a paper trail with encrypted messaging.
Posted inFeatured
Fields of green
COVID is pushing thousands of Chinese immigrant workers into the marijuana business—sometimes leading to exploitation and labor trafficking
Posted inChaos and cannabis, Tribal Affairs
Uprooted
A police raid near Shiprock has all but ended an illicit cannabis-growing operation
Posted inChaos and cannabis, Featured, Tribal Affairs
Strangers in a foreign land
A massive marijuana bust in Farmington represents just a sliver of an ongoing operation on Navajo lands that has now drawn federal investigators