Yesterday, I read a brief interview with one of In Touch Weekly’s editors in which the guy said that there was more stuff to come out about the Duggars, and that In Touch Weekly had been on the ground in Arkansas for a few months now and they were still digging up information. While nothing will probably beat In Touch’s exclusive reporting on Josh Duggar’s crimes, I’m interested in seeing how much worse it can get. In Touch Weekly has the Duggar situation on their cover again this week and it’s all about how the Duggars are under investigation AGAIN.

The Duggar family is under investigation again by the Arkansas Department of Human Services and police were called when the family refused to cooperate, In Touch magazine is reporting exclusively in its new issue that hits newsstands today.

A representative from the Washington County DHS called 911 on May 27 at around 11 a.m. asking for police assistance when DHS was not allowed to see the minor they were concerned about. In Touch, which broke the story of Josh Duggar’s sexual molestation scandal, has the full transcript of the emergency call in the new issue.

The new investigation comes as the family tries to save its TLC reality show, 19 Kids and Counting, which the network pulled off the air, while determining its fate. Jim Bob, Michelle and two of their daughters sat for interviews with Fox News, attempting to minimize the damage, but much of what they said was widely condemned as misinformation and not full disclosure.

The Duggars made no mention of the fact that they have been under investigation again, but In Touch discovered what they are hiding via another Freedom of Information Act request that produced the 911 call. After identifying himself as a Washington Country DHS employee and stating the Duggar family address, the caller tells the 911 operator, “We have an investigation and I guess they’re not being cooperative. We have to see the child to make sure the child is all right. So we just need police assistance.”

DHS records are not available to the public so it is unknown what prompted the investigation. Experts tell In Touch that an investigation can be triggered by a hotline complaint, even an anonymous one, if the trained operator determines the allegation is serious enough that it meets standards for child abuse maltreatment laws.

The Duggars were investigated by police in 2006 for Josh’s acts of molestation committed in 2002 and 2003. DHS then investigated the family in 2007, as In Touch first reported.

[From In Touch Weekly]

This is fascinating and horrible. This means the Arkansas Department of Human Services is still actively monitoring the Duggars – or at least one of the Duggar minors – and it means that the Duggars have refused to give DHS access, so that’s why the cops were called. When DHS investigates, cooperation is not optional. It’s good to point that out because the Duggars claimed in their Fox News interviews that they worked with DHS and everything was fine, like they should get extra credit for an entirely mandatory process. They also made it sound like the DHS thing was all over, but if DHS’s investigation/monitoring is still happening, that’s very interesting. It’s also good to point out that nothing in In Touch’s reporting has come from DHS – DHS investigations are seemingly not subject to FOIA requests, so that’s something else the Duggars have lied about.

People Magazine also ran a strangely sympathetic piece yesterday about how residents of Tonititown (the Duggars’ hometown) were feeling sorry for the family because of all the media interest. Like, those poor Duggars, they agreed to Fox News interviews, how terrible. And People just published an “exclusive” on how Jill and Jessa are coping, which just reads like the same Duggar talking points given to Megyn Kelly at Fox News. Jessa and Jill “feel violated” by the press (but oddly not their brother).

Photos courtesy of Duggars’ social media.