Last winter, Governor Andrew Cuomo engaged Kroll Associates—a premier white-collar investigative firm, renowned for high-stakes snooping in the corporate world—to suggest how to fix the city’s broken child-welfare system. The consultants produced a 31-page report of practical recommendations, including hiring more caseworkers to reduce caseloads, hiring investigators with law-enforcement backgrounds to perform criminal background checks on parents, and increasing the number of ACS staff authorized to see these criminal-history records. Kroll suggested that investigators with law-enforcement backgrounds accompany caseworkers to at-risk homes, and recommended better coordination between the ACS and the Department of Education, as well as other agencies. The consultants also urged the ACS to reduce the “response time” of caseworkers when learning of imminent danger in the home.
Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department AD3d Argued - May 17, 2022 FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, J.P. JOSEPH J. MALTESE PAUL WOOTEN LARA J. GENOVESI, JJ. 2021-07543 DECISION & ORDER In the Matter of Lexis B. (Anonymous). Administration for Children’s Services, petitioner-respondent; Natalia B. (Anonymous), appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 1) In the Matter of Joseph B. (Anonymous). Administration for Children’s Services, petitioner-respondent; Natalia B. (Anonymous), appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 2) (Docket Nos. N-1916-21, N-1917-21) Michael S. Discioarro, New York, NY, for appellant. Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix, Corporation Counsel, New York, NY (Deborah A. Brenner and Andrea Nishi of counsel), for petitioner-respondent. Anne M. Serby, Long Beach, NY, attorney for the child Lexis B. In related proceedings pursuant to Family Court Act article 10, the mother appeals from an order of the Family Court, Queens County ...
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