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THE New York TIMES RAN THE FOLLOWING STORY TODAY ON THE DANGERS OF BEING INDICATED FOR CHILD ABUSE. GO TO THIS LINK. FIGHTACS.CO M BROOKLYNACSLAWYER.COM ADVERTISEMENT The issue has become especially urgent as more people apply to become home health aides, one of the fastest growing industries in the country. In New York, agencies that work with children or vulnerable adults are required to screen job applicants through the registry. Last year, the state processed more than 316,000 of those background checks. Parents and their advocates are pushing elected officials to consider reducing the amount of time a name lingers on the register to five years, with some exceptions. You have  1 free article  remaining. Subscribe to The Times Registers were created decades ago to address the kind of recurrent abuse that can fall through the cracks, often revealed when a child is killed. A previous report of abuse is the strongest predictor of...

ACS workers will often call parents into what they call a child safety conference. This is a meeting between the parents and the ACS worker and supervisor. It is ACS policy not to allow attorneys in the conference. WHY? The answer is obvious. ACS uses a few tactics to attack parents at the conference and an attorney would not allow this to happen. The first tactic is to use the good/cop bad/cop approach. The ACS worker will bring in her supervisor and they will play off each other. Often they are both bad cops. This is akin to the car salesman bringing in his manager to close the deal. The vast majority of the time, ACS will file a court case against the parent regardless of the parent's behavior at the conference. To this end, these conferences are a great way for ACS to take more information from the parent. Keep in mind, the conferences are not recorded in any way. They only recording would be the notes taken by the ACS worker. This conference is on their turf and they control...