SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department has faced pressure for more than five years to find a solution for where to put kids who are often staying overnight in ...

Dozens of employees at the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department resigned from their jobs in 2025. Most of them ...

Albuquerque police said they arrested a juvenile in New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department custody, accused of ...

Police arrested a suspect accused of assaulting an officer investigating him for allegedly sexually assaulting a CYFD ...

New Mexico lawmakers are back in Santa Fe for the second week of the legislative session, hoping to focus on privacy ...

Governor Grisham's executive order ending overnight stays at CYFD ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – We’re getting a clearer idea of how the party in charge plans to improve the embattled New Mexico ...

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The executive order aims to remove overnight stays in government office buildings for children in CYFD custody.

The current condition of the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department is an embarrassment. In 2003, it was acknowledged nationally as a model public child welfare agency but since then has ...

SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday selected Dawn Walters as New Mexico's first child advocate, filling a role created by lawmakers last year amid simmering concerns about the state's ...