Arizona Department of Child Safety

An autopsy report released this month says a 9-year-old boy in the care of Arizona's child welfare agency was hospitalized twice for a life-threatening complication of diabetes before he died Dec. 26.

Former state lawmaker David Lujan has been nominated by Gov. Katie Hobbs to become the new director of the Arizona Department of Child Safety.

A 9-year-old boy reportedly died while under the custody of the Arizona child welfare agency just days after his father was jailed on a drug charge in December, 2022.

The Flagstaff Police Department and the Arizona Department of Child Safety are trying to locate a 17-year-old girl and her 1-year-old daughter.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review whether a 2015 lawsuit alleging gross failures in the foster-care system should be treated as a class-action…