NEW YORK CITY ACS DEFENSE LAWYER

One of the biggest complaints we hear from parents is that the ACS worker barged into their home and demanded to speak to they child outside the presence of the parent. This is a common ACS tactic that allows the ACS worker to claim that the child made statements in order to prosecute a case against the parent. ACS workers rely on the fear and unfamiliarity of parents with the legal system to force parents into useless services that are completely ineffective. In addition, these services are run by third party providers who's only interest is to obtaining new clients and increase their budgets. The ACS budget for this year is a little over 3 billion dollars. It is staggering how ineffective this agency is and how wasteful the senior leadership are with all of the money. Where does it go? Who decides? Why are caseloads still so high? Why is there such high turnover at acs? No one in the upper management has ever answered these questions. This is an agency where failure is the norm...

ACS workers will now have former NYPD cops to help them in investigations. As the video states, " they will help parents open the door". This means that the officer will be used to intimidate parents into following ACS orders. This will lead to an attack on the rights of parents. BROOKLYNACSLAWYER.COM

The latest ACS Commissioner to promise reforms. The truth is that the real power at ACS rests with the upper management team. These are career bureaucrats who show up, and cash their checks. They have no interest in any reform. Despite all of the child deaths, not one has been fired. The Commissioner is a figurehead that cannot effect reform. Thus, the children of our great city will keep dying. FIGHTACS.COM QUEENSACSLAWYER.COM QUEENSACSATTORNEY.COM

The city Administration for Children's Services (ACS) announced a new heightened protocol for critical and serious child abuse investigations. The new protocol ensures a review of any maltreated child, who is three years old or younger, and there is a fatality report or a report filed that alleges serious injury and/or sexual abuse. ACS Commissioner David A. Hansell announced the new Heightened Oversight Protocol (HOP), which is a two-step process combining the expertise of ACS' investigative consultant supervisors -- who are retired NYPD detective supervisors and ACS' child protective specialists. "Protecting children is the core of our mission," said Hansell. "This new, heightened protocol will bring more investigative expertise into our highest-risk cases throughout the course of the investigation." Hansell said over the last nine months, ACS has instituted reforms based on evidence, data and best practices in child protection. ACS has increa...

According to this article , the NY Times reports that ACS will add 400 ACS workers in June. If true, this will simply be chaos. The article, which is a PR stunt by ACS also states that ACS is tearing away children from their parents at a higher rate than before. This is of little concern to the ACS Commissioner who simply sees it as the way ACS does business.ACS workers are very poorly trained, or not rained at al. Recently, we asked an ACS worker if she knew what the Family Court Act was and she had no idea. To add 400 new ACS workers with the power to remove children from their homes is irresponsible and will lead to more broken families. This new Commissioner is of the opinion that all you have to do is take children away from their parents and they will be fine. This is a very bad sign of things to come. FIGHTACS.COM BROOKLYNACSATTORNEY.COM