MLG’s CYFD covered up child’s death, deleted records

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We already knew that New Mexico’s child protective services and Governor Lujan Grisham’s staff were using encrypted messaging apps that automatically deleted messages to bypass open record laws.

Now, a new lawsuit reported by KRQE, alleges that Lujan Grisham’s “Child, Youth, and Families Department (CYFD) covered up the death of a four-year-old.”

How so?
“CYFD managers directed the investigator to erase her notes before entering them in the official CYFD system,” said Crecca. Those attorneys believe all the pictures were destroyed. “She had all of that evidence on her phone,” said Rachel Berenson, attorney. Attorneys say the caseworker turned that phone in and it was reset to factory settings.”
Heartbreaking and tragic.

“Deception starts at the top of government in New Mexico and trickles down, with Michelle Lujan Grisham’s own staffers using encrypted apps to bypass public record laws,” said RGA spokesman Will Reinert. “Now a four-year-old boy is dead and the documents gone forever because of the culture of deleting public records Governor Lujan Grisham built in the state.”