• Legislators want to review licensed group homes • Some are concerned children are too often labeled as runaways, not missing • Move is part of a larger push for oversight of the Department of Child Safety

House and Senate Republicans are moving to organize greater oversight into the Department of Child Safety following the deaths of multiple children who were known by the department.

Sen. Carine Werner, R-Scottsdale, announced on Aug. 6 that she’s organizing a closed stakeholder meeting of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on DCS in September to review state protocols for licensed group homes and child welfare oversight.

The announcement followed an Aug. 1 Phoenix Police news release announcing two men were arrested and charged with the murder of 16-year-old Zariah Dodd af

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