Child welfare head tries to improve agency's image (Repug incompetence)

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When Christopher J. McCabe stood at the microphone of a recent nationally televised news conference, Maryland's highest child welfare official mentioned his boss' name, introduced his colleagues and spoke vaguely about his agency's work.
The secretary of the Department of Human Resources barely mentioned the fate of an abandoned 3-year-old, even as CNN and other news outlets interrupted regular programming in hopes of hearing more details on the girl known as Courtney from Brooklyn.


To advocates for children's welfare, that night was emblematic of McCabe's tenure.

"DSS can't figure out who's on first base. It's pathetic," said Susan Leviton, director of the Children's Law Clinic at the University of Maryland School of Law. "Here we are in Maryland, which is one of the wealthiest states in the nation, and this is what we're known for."


http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.mccabe31may31,0,6609934.story?coll=bal-local-headlines