Former licensor has visited her former child care licensing agency in Vancouver, Washington State since December 30, 2025. Pictured here are the last known human being licensors at work inside a DSHS building. Now all licensors are ghosts. I'm in the first row, far left. 13-year former family home child care investigator/licensor. A DCYF licensor ghost is now called a "Social and Health Program Consultant 2" SHPC2.
We were four licensors, a clerk & a supervisor who had names, phone numbers, email addresses and desks in the agency in 2004. All our contact information was on public government websites.
Citizens, parents could call, email or come to the office. Files were in the office, work was done in the office for reasons of efficiency, effectiveness and economy (that was the law back then). For reasons of confidentiality of files, government equipment, computers, printers and phones. Now government employees in Washington State and Oregon are at home on living room tables with open confidential files on one side of their laptops and the other side their bongs (one neighbor in Oregon reported such with a photograph).
In 2005 there were four licensors, a supervisor & clerk.
In 2000 I had 260 providers on my caseload, 2005, just 100.
Today just 50. Four ghost licensors each have on average 50.
In 2026 all the licensors are ghosts. Ghosts without names, phone numbers or email addresses who cover about 165-220 licensed facilities in Clark County, Washington State. A law created in 2005 only allowed licensors to make a monitor visit once every 18 months. Most licenses are "non-expiring" which means less work for licensors.
Former daycare providers began taking over government licensing jobs in the early 2000s.
The current Regional DCYF manager is Maggie O'Connor, up in Olympia. She answered the phone the first time I called. Maggie's a former daycare provider. Refused to tell me for how long and where she had operated her daycare. Emilie Jorgenson, the DCYF supervisor, was never in the office and never responded to the letter I left even as she knew I would return for another visit.
The four Vancouver licensors are ghosts.
Calling throughout the day on January 8, 2025, the unit administrative clerk never answered her phone.
The clerk is named Selena.
The job duty of a clerk is to answer phone calls.
Then the DCYF public records specialist in Olympia in a letter wrote it will take her over four months until May 11, 2026 to hunt through those 165-220 provider case files, to determine how many are Somali daycare facilities in the Vancouver area.
Further evidence that licensors are "ghosts"? I called and left a message for Maggie as well (she's no longer answering her phone) as to why she can't call the licensors and ask, "How many?"
The Public Record Specialist, Casandra Lucore, sent to me, her "5-day letter" on day 2 of my records request.
I am also a former public records disclosure coordinator in DSHS. 99% of all record requests can be done in one day or maybe 2 days. State government violates the Open Records Act in Washington State based on personal emotional whims of state government employees, based on who they like, who they don't like. Laws passed by our citizens legislators? Crickets. Water off a duck's back. 
Why have things gone absolutely bat shit crazy in Washington State as well as in Oregon.
Comedian Katie Hopkins has some telling analysis regarding AI. And because of AI, Katie stated that "...lawyers no longer exist...they are defunct..."
AG, Nick Brown, was notified of this licensor stopping fraud in the daycare community back in the late 90s in the Vancouver area. January 9th, a follow-up email was sent to the AG, sent to his press office email account since I had no response to my January 8th email:
"Good morning,
- Health insurance subsidy: $12,000–$18,000/year
- Retirement employer contribution: ~$4,400/year
- Paid leave equivalent: $6,000–$12,000/year (factoring in value of time off)
- Other (life, disability, etc.): $1,000–$3,000/year
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