{"id":48800,"date":"2021-02-05T16:37:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T23:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/county-yet-to-fill-citizens-review-panel-vacancy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:44:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:44:25","slug":"county-yet-to-fill-citizens-review-panel-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/county-yet-to-fill-citizens-review-panel-vacancy\/","title":{"rendered":"County yet to fill Citizens Review Panel vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6d46555b-c249-4719-84ef-25c275e00008&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1935\" height=\"962\" alt=\"The county is looking to fill two spots on the Citizens Review Panel as soon as possible.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The county is looking to fill two spots on the Citizens Review Panel as soon as possible.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Montezuma County<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Montezuma County panel designed to provide a forum for social services employees investigating child abuse to air their grievances has been without a member for months, and a current member\u2019s term expires this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Citizens Review Panel, which is supposed to have three members, has been without a third since October. Liz Tozer\u2019s term expires this October.<\/p>\n<p>The board was created in response to a 2019 state-led <a href=\"https:\/\/the-journal.com\/articles\/147821\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation<\/a> into the Montezuma County Department of Social Services, which claimed the department violated state law nine times and state regulations 58 times after reviewing 15 child protection cases from June 2014 to December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The three most serious issues with Social Services\u2019 practices outlined in the Office of Colorado\u2019s Child Protection Ombudsman\u2019s report were delayed response to reports of abuse and neglect; noncompliant information sharing with law enforcement; and inadequate supervision of child welfare cases.<\/p>\n<p>The county is looking to fill the two positions on the panel as soon as possible. Membership on the panel is unpaid and meets as cases come up for review.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s required that members represent the community, have demonstrable knowledge and experience with children and not be employees or agents of any county department. At least one member of the panel needs to be the parent of a minor child at the time of his or her appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Applications can be submitted no later than Feb. 12 at the Montezuma County Offices located at 109 W. Main St. in Cortez.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:anicotera@the-journal.com\">anicotera@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>grievances from social services employees investigating reports of child abuse, neglect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,237,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county-government","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87460,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48800\/revisions\/87460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48800"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}