Governor Bill Haslam’s DCS commissioner of two years resigned under mounting pressure over child death records. This week there is an interim at the helm, charged with watching out for Tennessee’s most vulnerable children. Lawmakers described the job as “impossible.”
DCS Commish Resigns Ahead of Hearing on Child Deaths
The commissioner of an embattled state agency has resigned. Kate O’Day steps down as head of the Department of Children Services one day before she was to testify about child deaths.