Gov. Phil Murphy late Tuesday signed legislation that puts the state’s child welfare system on a path to ending 20 years of federal court oversight next year. Once considered to be among the most dysfunctional and mismanaged in the nation, the Division of Child Protection and Permanency — formerly known as DYFS, the Division of Youth and Family Services — is poised the shed the court monitor and report to a less-powerful independent state panel that will monitor and annually report on the agency’s progress. The court monitor, Judith Meltzer, and Marcia Robinson Lowry, the founder of A Better C…
