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Posted inChild & Family Welfare

Blalock steps down

Avatar photo by Ed Williams August 10, 2021February 16, 2023

CYFD Cabinet secretary Brian Blalock replaced by former New Mexico Supreme Court Justice amid growing transparency concerns

Posted inEviction, Eviction Epidemic, Featured, Housing , Your Right To Know

Locked out

Avatar photo by Dillon Bergin and Kate Schimel August 5, 2021July 28, 2022

A Searchlight investigation finds that in spite of federal and state stays, evictions continued in the state.

Posted inChild & Family Welfare

Questions of fairness

Avatar photo by Ed Williams July 22, 2021February 16, 2023

CYFD employees say they were sidelined or fired for voicing concerns about a ‘sacred cow’ software contract.

Posted inChild & Family Welfare

Firing Back

Avatar photo by Ed Williams June 24, 2021February 16, 2023

High-level officials accuse the CYFD of retaliation against complaints about Signal and other concerns.

Posted inChild & Family Welfare

Seeking shelter

Avatar photo by Ed Williams June 9, 2021February 16, 2023

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

Avatar photo by Ed Williams May 21, 2021February 16, 2023

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

Avatar photo by Ed Williams April 26, 2021February 16, 2023

In the state department charged with child welfare, leadership and staff avoid a paper trail with encrypted messaging.

Posted inFeatured

Fields of green

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Ed Williams and Wufei Yu December 21, 2020February 2, 2023

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

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Ed Williams and Don J. Usner November 11, 2020July 10, 2022

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

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Ed Williams and Wufei Yu October 29, 2020July 10, 2022

A massive marijuana bust in Farmington represents just a sliver of an ongoing operation on Navajo lands that has now drawn federal investigators

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