The previous Director of the Arizona Department of Child Safety, Mike Faust, came from aerospace manufacturing
https://web.archive.org/web/20200426222402/https://dcs.az.gov/about/administration/mike-faust-dcs-director
No relevant credentials for a DCS position and Ducey didn't interview anyone else for the job
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228173146/https://www.knau.org/knau-and-arizona-news/2019-08-12/new-head-of-arizona-child-welfare-agency-was-only-candidate
Here's an article about Faust completely overhauling the training for DCS, causing confusion and kids to be left in unsafe conditions (less monitoring)
https://tucson.com/news/lawsuit-was-catalyst-for-cutting-caseloads-in-alabama/article_c3a733aa-224b-11e8-b859-477daa1e1099.html
https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20210218583
https://dcs.az.gov/sites/default/files/documents/files/_BK_v_Faust_Notice_of_Proposed_Class_Action_Settlement.pdf
The new training was the idea of Theresa Costello, who is the Executive Director of Action 4 Child Protection, or Action4CP for short
http://action4cp.org/
This nonprofit is directly connected to a hell of a lot of state DHS/DCFS/DSS programs
Then look at things like Paul Petersen's arrest
and Kate Brophy-McGee's threats to David Farnsworth