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Browning retiring from DCFS

by City News Service • December 8, 2016

Philip Browning
Philip Browning

LOS ANGELES – After five years at the helm of the largest child welfare system in America, Philip Browning will be retiring from Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services.

The agency’s 8,800 staffers learned about their director’s decision in a memo sent he sent out Wednesday, The Chronicle of Social Change reported.

“This is to notify you that I will be retiring from the county effective January 31, 2017, he wrote. Over the last 5 years, you have helped to make DCFS a much better department than when I arrived.”

When the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors hired him in 2011, Browning was the third DCFS director in nine months.

During his time in office, Browning’s tenure was marred by several high-profile child deaths, including the 2013 death of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez in Palmdale.

That death prompted a Blue Ribbon Commission to release several recommendations in 2014, the most prominent of which was the creation of an Office of Child Protection to oversee the county’s protection efforts on behalf of children.

The department has a budget of $2.2 billion and employs 8,800 workers, including 4,000 children’s social workers, the Chronicle reported. DCFS oversees the cases of roughly 40,000 children.

There was no immediate comment from the Board of Supervisors.

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Filed Under: Palmdale, Politics

3 comments for "Browning retiring from DCFS"

  1. Eddie Lorghaba says

    December 8, 2016 at 5:57 pm

    Ya cause child trafficking is how la county makes moola!! The more they steal, the richer we get! Enough of him trafficking children!

  2. Never Forget says

    December 8, 2016 at 5:34 pm

    Is this the guy V. Jesse Smith went to bat for?

  3. Sandra says

    December 8, 2016 at 4:17 pm

    40,000 children? That is just an unreal number. Something is very wrong.

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