Tears ran down Maralyn Beck’s face Tuesday morning when she realized the Legislature’s interim Courts, Corrections and Justice Committee wouldn’t be discussing a damning report about the state’s troubled child welfare agency.

Beck, a child welfare advocate and founder of the New Mexico Child First Network, had driven from Albuquerque to Las Cruces the day before to attend the presentation, which had been scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m.

Although the committee chairman, Sen. Joe Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, on Monday announced a postponement of an arbitrator’s report in the landmark Kevin S. child welfare case, not everybody got the message.

“I received text messages from people across the state that were asking, ‘Why isn’t the Zoom starting at 8:30?’ ” Beck said in a telephone interview as s

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