This is a sign of an agency in denial. While the vast majority of CPS workers perform their tough jobs admirably and have a clean record

CPS Director Laura Coulthard and her boss, Lynn Frank, director of the Department of Health and Rosetta Stone V3 Human Services, declined to be interviewed. Instead, they sent memos discouraging workers from talking to reporters and offered counseling to those who were the focus of The Bee's "intrusive" questions.This is a sign of an agency in denial. While the vast majority of CPS workers perform their tough jobs admirably and have a clean record, The Bee's research has found far too many with troubling histories. By urging their employees to stay mum instead of examining the agency's screening practices, CPS managers seem more interested in damage control than in public safety.Two big questions hang over CPS' practices. The first involves pre-employment screening and the county's background check policy, which was last revised in 1988.The second involves the county's attempts to be notified by outside authorities when a CPS employee, after being hired, runs afoul of the law.A CPS spokesman told The Bee that the county receives subsequent arrest notifications. But if that is the case, why is Cynthia Lee Quinn still a CPS social worker?An El Dorado County judge convicted Quinn of violating a restraining order after she allegedly harassed neighbors with laser pointers, obscene phone calls, videotaping and nails in their driveways.After one family moved to Sacramento County to escape the harassment, they soon received a suspicious visit from Sacramento County CPS workers investigating a report of a child beating.You can have a reasoned debate about whether people convicted years ago of minor offenses should be barred from CPS employment. We believe CPS managers should have some leeway, based on the nature of a person's past offense and subsequent actions.The trouble is, CPS hasn't begun to keep up with recent arrests of its employees. They are not doing the minimum to keep the wrong people from ending up in crucial jobs. And that just adds to the questions Rosetta Stone Hindi about this troubled agency. When will the county's supervisors demand answers?___March 23The Stockton Record: Delta College program's focus on minorities is essentialA San Joaquin Delta College program to support students who might not otherwise make it specifically targets blacks, but is open to all.Of [Rosetta Stone ] all the college degrees awarded by California's public colleges and universities in 2007, only 5.4 percent went to blacks, who made up 6.7 percent of the state's population that year. Perhaps more distressing, only about 21 percent of those degrees went to Latinos, this state's fastest growing ethnic group. That number is well below their percentage of the state population - 36.2 percent.At Delta, using a $50,000 public grant, the AFFIRM program attempts to boost those Rosetta Stone Korean numbers.