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News  |  Jeremy Pittari  • 
November 13, 2023

Mississippi Child Protective Services focused on employee retention, lowering caseloads

Pay scales, mentally stressful cases and the economy are contributing to continued turnover rates in CPS, but efforts within the state agency over the last few years are helping ease the trend.
News  |  Frank Corder  • 
November 13, 2023

State Medical Examiner cleared over 99% of autopsy report backlog since 2020

The Department of Public Safety added four new death investigators and contracted with independent medical examiners to play catch up on completing over 2,200 autopsy reports that built up prior to 2020. Plans are in the works to open a third examiner's office in Oxford.