Acting DCFS head resigns in defiance of supervisors

By Christina Villacorte Staff Writer, Contra Costa Times
Posted: 04/21/2011 07:42:39 PM PDT
Updated: 04/21/2011 07:59:24 PM PDT

The acting head of Los Angeles County's often-maligned Department of Children and Family Services has resigned to defy the Board of Supervisors, and the lone candidate to fill the job on a permanent basis has withdrawn, officials said Thursday.

Antonia Jimenez stepped down Tuesday, returning to her old job as a deputy to county Chief Executive Officer William Fujioka. The move was intended to let her avoid entering into a contract that the board had directed her to sign, according to county Supervisor Michael Antonovich.

Antonovich bluntly stated the department was better off without Jimenez because she defied the board's direct order to sign a contract with a relatively new unit created to investigate deaths, abuse and neglect involving children in the care of the DCFS.

"It was a blatant act of insubordination," Antonovich said. "She had until 5 (Tuesday afternoon) to sign, and she stepped down in lieu of signing, in defiance of a court order."

Jimenez did not return multiple calls seeking comment Thursday. But during Tuesday's board meeting, she explained that she had no objections to working with the Children's Special Investigation Unit that replaced the Children's Services inspector general and answered directly to the board.

Jimenez said she merely opposed a provision in the contract that barred her from sharing the investigative unit's reports with staff at the DCFS. FULL STORY

Frankly, I think they are all a bunch of kidnapping, murderous communists.