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Director of Maine’s ‘broken’ child welfare system resigns

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Director of Maine’s ‘broken’ child welfare system resigns
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Todd Landry, the director of Maine’s child welfare system, which has faced scrutiny in recent years over the deaths of numerous kids in state care, has resigned.

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