{"id":9007,"date":"2014-09-15T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/?p=9007"},"modified":"2025-04-30T01:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T01:13:42","slug":"thomas-driscoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/thomas-driscoll\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Driscoll \u2013 Senior Investigator and Child Safety Specialist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1216.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong>Thomas Driscoll<\/strong> joined the office as a Senior Investigator in August 2024. Before joining the Ombudsman\u2019s office, Thomas worked for the Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS) for almost eight years as a Specialist, Program Specialist, and Unit Supervisor. Most of Thomas\u2019s time with DCS, including his time as a supervisor, was with the After-Hours Investigation Team (AHIT), which responds to emergency reports and communications on nights and weekends. Thomas was selected as a \u201csuper user\u201d for DCS\u2019s case management system, Guardian. Thomas also supported DCS coworkers as a member of the Workforce Resilience Team. During his time at DCS, Thomas completed Specialist Core, Supervisor Core, and SAFE AZ training. Additionally, Thomas received training from John E. Reid and Associates in Emerging Trends in Child Sexual Abuse Investigations, Child Abuse Injury Reconstruction Techniques, and the Reid Technique of Investigative Interviewing. He also completed Advanced Forensic Interview Training from Prevent Child Abuse Arizona. Thomas has a bachelor\u2019s degree in Global Security and Intelligence Studies from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with a focus in Security Operations Management and a minor in Mathematics. Since joining the team, Thomas completed the New Ombudsman Training offered by the United States Ombudsman Association (USOA) and was certified as an investigator\/inspector by the Council on Licensure, Enforcement, and Regulation (CLEAR) after completing the National Certified Investigator and Inspector Training (NCIT).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Driscoll joined the office as a Senior Investigator in August 2024. Before joining the Ombudsman\u2019s office, Thomas worked for the Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS) for almost eight years as a Specialist, Program Specialist, and Unit Supervisor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9007"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9465,"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007\/revisions\/9465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}