UPDATE: The House Oversight Committee called on DA Spencer Merriweather in a letter to conduct an immediate criminal investigation into the employees who “handled, supervised, approved, screened out, documented, failed to document” any report in Dominique Moody’s case.
Outrage over the death of Moore County toddler Rylan Ott in 2016 compelled North Carolina on a path to improve its child welfare system.
Nearly a decade later, the state has rolled out several of those reforms — a statewide office focused on preventing child fatalities, regional supervisory offices to provide more support to county departments of social services, and a modernized intake and assessment system for all 100 counties that will eventually include case management…