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Public deserves to see CPS case files for three who died

The Arizona Daily Star

The Arizona House Government Committee will hold a hearing on Child Protective Services in late August. The intent, as articulated by the organizers, is to push for improvement and better oversight in the state agency charged with protecting Arizona's children.

Lawmakers will focus on the circumstances surrounding the deaths of three Tucson children from two families who were killed, police say, by their parents. All of the children — Ariana Payne, 4; Tyler Payne, 5; and Brandon Williams, 5 — were on the radar of CPS investigators.

The hearing, however, will be closed. State and federal laws require confidentiality in child- abuse and neglect cases. Lawmakers who are briefed on the cases are legally barred from discussing the cases publicly.

Posted by Editor at July 22, 2007 10:22 PM

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