Gov. Katie Hobbs said she appointed Matthew Stewart to “transform” Arizona’s troubled child welfare system. But as an election-denying Republican was gearing up to attack him, she gave up on her pick.
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Stewart will become Arizona’s first Black director of the Department of Child Safety. A recent ProPublica-NBC News investigation found the agency had investigated the families of 1 in 3 Black children in metro Phoenix during a recent five-year period.