DCFS and state police brief committees on child-maltreatment reports; CACD notes substantiated-case totals

Tiffany Wright, director of the Division of Children and Family Services, presented a package of reports to the joint committees Wednesday detailing recent oversight and performance activity related to child maltreatment.

Wright presented the Biannual Overturned Investigations Report, the Annual Report for State Fiscal Year 2025, the Quarterly Performance Report covering July 1–Sept. 30, 2025, a Garrett’s Law summary covering July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025, and the Arkansas Family Preservation Services SFY 2025 report (Exhibits E1–E7). The meeting record lists these exhibits and the reports Wright introduced but does not include extended discussion or verbatim summaries of their contents.

Following Wright’s presentation, Kalika Rogers, Investigations Administrator for the Arkansas State Police Crimes Against Children Division, reviewed the CACD Quarterly Oversight Report (Exhibits F1–F2). Rogers summarized the types of child-abuse phone calls the division received and highlighted the number of cases that were substantiated during the quarter; the transcript records that she “outlined the various types of child abuse phone calls received and highlighted the number of cases that were substantiated.”

The transcript does not include numerical breakdowns or detailed discussion about policy changes tied directly to the reports. The committee record shows these presentations were informational and were followed by no additional business before adjournment at 3:30 p.m.

The documents cited as exhibits were listed in the meeting record; the transcript itself does not reproduce the reports’ numerical tables or recommendations.