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Former child safety head says Brnovich made decision to bar married gay couples from adopting

PNI1217-met flanagan - 12.16.13 - Charles Flanagan (cq), chairman of the C.A.R.E. team (cq) talks with the media before he addresses an Arizona legislative hearing of the Child Protective Services Oversight Committee (cq) at the state capital on Monday, December 16, 2013 (cq). The purpose of the meeting was an update on the more than 6500 non-investigated CPS cases by both the Department of Public Safety (cq) and the C.A.R.E. team (cq). Charlie Leight/The Arizona Republic
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By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services/Arizona Capitol Times

The former head of the state’s child safety agency said Monday it was Attorney General Mark Brnovich and not he who precipitated a February decision to stop allowing married gay couples to jointly adopt or become foster parents.

Charles Flanagan said Monday the Department of Child Safety was perfectly content living with the advice it had received last fall from former Attorney General Tom Horne that it should treat all married couples the same. That followed a federal court ruling voiding Arizona’s constitutional amendment limiting marriage to one man and one woman.

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