Scathing CPS Report Held Until Leaders Could "Get Out Of Dodge"

See link to DSHS Ombudsman's report at bottom of this page.
Sometimes you just have to rub a little harder....

There was some speculation about the sudden departure of both DSHS head Robin Arnold-Williams and CPS comrade Cheryl Stephanie at year's end. Turns out, it was really all timing around a report outing CPS program failures that the departures were all about.

With a scathing report on the failings of the department about to be released by the Office of the DSHS Ombudsman....here was the plan:

*Wait until after the election for the release of the document,

* Move Williams and Stephanie out of the picture before the study is released,

* Then hire replacements so there is no one who was immediately responsible for the findings to be around to answer questions,

* Issue the report around the holidays when half the press would be looking for new jobs, and the others vacationing or writing "human interest" stories.

* Have former press guru, Thomas Shapley, ready to deflect any criticism and downplay the study.

It worked...no press on the awful revelations!

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