Flanagan fired amid question: Is DCS the new CPS?
By Laurie Roberts. The Arizona Republic. February 10, 2015.
"Today, Gov. Doug Ducey fired DCS Director Charles Flanagan, who 
shepherded the new agency through its first year. Greg McKay, the Phoenix police detective tapped several years ago to oversee state investigations of criminal child abuse reports, will take Flanagan's place."

BELOW: My formal response to this news.

Consider the fact that, if Arizona's highest ranking officials are willing to neglect at-risk children, the equally grave threat posed by such ineptitude when it comes to Arizona citizens affected by serious mental illness. Throughout the annals of human history, persons so affected have ALWAYS been as hatefully discriminated against as it gets, and this certainly applies with respect for contemporary American history. That said, the issues underlying DCS's failure to meet the public trust is only one aspect of the broader implications. For I can and do attest to the fact that along with at-risk children in the state of AZ, persons young and old affected by serious mental illness have equally been subject to grossly substandard ineptitude and policy practices by the current administration of ADHS/BHS. And it is ongoing. This is arguably no more apparent than within the walls and fence lines of AZ's sole long term public mental hospital, The Arizona State Hospital (Phoenix), where senior clinicians and administrators alike have long been complicit in subjecting ASH's most vulnerable patients to utterly unlawful care and practice, with the undeniable protection of the state's office of the attorney general, as well as AHDS/BHS's highest ranking staff (and you ALL know who you are). Absolutely substandard medical health care, and they ARE STILL GETTING AWAY WITH IT- despite countless media reports (see ABC Ch 15, and investigative reporter Dave Biscobing's data to the effect), and good faith reporting by ASH staff, and at least one former patient/consumer's widely published blog/pending book (see The Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse @blogspot.com). Likewise, with the various legal actions now in process in mind, whereby each and every state official identified in this blog to date are being taken to court, it is graphically clear how in need of direct oversight and associated accountability the operation of the Arizona State Hospital's is at this time, that being specific to at least some ASH staff at all levels of employ, along with their superseding counterparts in the offices of ADHS, the AZ AG, and so on. I implore AZ's current executive officers to step forward and do the right thing on behalf of ASH's patients, patients' families, ASH staff, and the citizens of AZ across the board. Anything less just furthers the travesty, to the deep shame of AZ's overall citizenry.... who deserve far, far better.

Thank you, Governor Ducey, for doing the right thing in this instance.

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Next up, then: Will "Yea, team!" Humble, Cory corazycorycorner.weebly.com" Nelson, Donna "You are sooo busted!" Noriega, and Joel "Angel of Darkness/the Mortician"  Rudd.

Time and time again, I advised these Rat Bastards in terms that any three year old could understand: 

"You are up to no good, and you know it.  

And you are not going to get away with it."

IN CLOSING: And needless to say, perhaps, this blog is on hold while the production of the final version of "Arizona State Hospital and Patient Abuse: The Book" is carried forth; publication date roughly May-June 2015. Until that time, all data comprised in the context is being retained, all but- of course- the 450+ articles published and reviewed by no less than 70,000 readers in the original version of the blog itself, 

circa April 2012-October 2014.  

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