Cliff Pirtle (R-Chaves, Eddy, and Otero counties). The legislation would try to amend New Mexico’s constitution to let counties secede from the state. Sen. Pirtle explained that the desire ...
In at least seven of New Mexico's 33 counties — McKinley, Cibola, De Baca, Harding, Quay, Curry and Roosevelt — there is no local program to assign CASAs to children in state custody.