PB Notable - Texas CPS
There is a Texas connection to Paul Petersen.
His indictment:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6461649-Petersen-Indictment.html#document/p1
The indictment says he defrauded the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System
In order for that to happen, someone had to be looking the other way
The AHCCCS director is Jami Snyder
Jami Snyder used to be a honcho for Medicaid in Texas
She's part of the Flinn Foundation, whose interests are bioscience and arts, and she's on the board for healthcurrent, who deal with electronic patient records
And she's donated to Planned Parenthood
Here's a curious lawsuit against AHCCCS/Snyder, et. al.:
https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20191011s16
Michael Faust was also named in the lawsuit
He's the head of the Arizona Dept of Child Safety
His background:
Before joining the state, Mike spent over 15 years in the aerospace manufacturing industry in various capacities including general management, value stream management, manufacturing engineering and continuous improvement.
https://dcs.az.gov/about/administration/mike-faust-dcs-director
Super relevant background for CPS work, yes?
He was appointed by Gov. Ducey
Governor didn't even interview anyone else for the job
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-child-welfare/2019/08/12/gov-doug-ducey-only-interviewed-mike-faust-lead-arizona-dcs/1972211001/
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
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/
Can't make this shit up
This nonprofit is directly connected to a hell of a lot of state DHS/DCFS/DSS programs, including Texas