NEW YORK CITY ACS DEFENSE LAWYER

  N OTE ON THE  F ISCAL  2021 E XECUTIVE  B UDGET FOR THE  A DMINISTRATION FOR  C HILDREN ’ S  S ERVICES  (ACS) C OMMITTEE ON  G ENERAL  W ELFARE AND  C OMMITTEE ON  J USTICE  S YSTEM   New York City Council Hon. Corey Johnson, Speaker Hon. Daniel Dromm, Chair, Committee on Finance Hon. Stephen Levin, Chair, Committee on General Welfare Hon. Rory Lancman, Chair, Committee on Justice System Finance Division Latonia R. McKinney, Director Regina Poreda Ryan, Deputy Director Nathan Toth, Deputy Director Paul Scimone, Deputy Director Dohini Sompura, Unit Head Daniel Kroop, Senior Financial Analyst On April 16, 2020, the Administration released the New York City Executive Financial Plan for Fiscal 2020-2024 with a proposed budget for Fiscal 2021 of $89.3 billion. The budget for the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), under the jurisdiction of the Committee on General Welfare and the Committee on Justice System, ac...

 ACS workers have a very powerful tool against parents in child abuse investigations. When an ACS workers interviews a child and is not given the answers that will allow him to charge the parents with child abuse, they will conduct a Child Advocacy Center interview. The process is as follows. The child is taken to a CAC center, where an "expert" interviewer will browbeat the child into admitting that the parents did something. As soon as a child says anything negative about the parent, the interview stops and the parent will be charged with child abuse. This is done to children as young as four. The interviews are recorded and presented in court. The interviewer is usually a recent college grad who has been given clear instructions to try and get "something" on the parents. To view some of these interviews is truly shocking. If a child says nothing happened he is not believed. If a child lies about various issues its put down as kid talk. The only thing that matters...

During child safety conferences, ACS workers will assign a parent an "advocate". This is a person who works for ACS who's job it is to advocate for the parent. In reality, this person will advise the parent to simply cooperate with ACS and the case will beaver soon. They are there to "soften up" the parent so ACS workers can extract more information from the parent and attack them as much as they can. If you are being taken to a child safety conference by ACS, contact an attorney as soon as possible. our hotline is 917-519-8417. FIGHTACS.COM STATENISLANDACSLAWYER.COM

 The most important thing a parent can do is not speak to an ACS worker without an attorney.Every day in our practice parents, tell us the nightmare stories that they have suffered at the hands of ACS workers. It all begins with the parent talking to an ACS worker about their family. Let us remember the two a main goals of ACS: 1. To remove children to foster care 2. To register parents in useless services that help no one. The goal of all ACS workers is to attack the parents and create a court case against them. Ironically, ACS workers only attack good parents. WHY? because they know that these parents will never harm their children. Thus, after ACS has them enrolled in useless classes and services, they can claim that they have "fixed" a family.  Now  children in crisis are very difficult to help that is why so many children who need real help die while they are under ACS supervision. The dysfunction of ACS harms good parents and does not help children in need. ...

Child abuse investigation? DON’T send in the lawyers By Post Editorial Board November 1, 2019  |  8:43pm Enlarge Image Stephen Levin, chairman of the City Council Committee on General Welfare. William Farrington MORE ON: EDITORIAL Carranza keeps treating his minority critics like they're un-persons Cuomo needs to call out subway union's blackmail bid Sondland's 'bombshell' turns out to be merely his 'presumption' Macron to Europe — unite or die and other commentary Of all the many situations that aren’t improved by bringing in lawyers, the early stages of an Administration for Children’s Services investigation has to lead the list. But City Councilman Stephen Levin (D-Brooklyn), whose committee oversees ACS,   wants lawyers involved  as soon as ACS opens a case. He thinks kids’ safety is ensured by “fully respecting the rights of parents to not have the state unduly infringe on their relationship with their ch...

 We are often asked, who parents can g complain to about ACS and especially ACS workers. The real answer is, no one. ACS is an agency that is beyond being shamed or attacked or punished in any way. It is an agency that has failure as its hallmark. This is an agency that has, through its incompetence, allowed children to die in unsafe homes, yet at the same time attacking innocent parents. In fact, when ACS allows a child to die, the mayor and commissioner hold a press conference stating how this should never have happened and how ACS will obtain moire training and money. The ACS budget is now over 3 billions dollars. And no one has any idea how this money is spent. In fact, a judge in Manhattan recently held ACS in contempt for not buying a handicapped child a new wheelchair. This is child abuse in its worst way. The only way to fight ACS is in court before an neutral judge. There are a few courageous judges that stand up to ACS and will hold them accountable. We also tell parent...

The Family Court Act section 1028 allows parents to have a hearing if their children have been removed by ACS or in many cases if the parent has been excluded from the home. In the vast majority of cases, the Court must begin the hearing within three days. Here is the catch, the Court does not have any time frame in which it must conclude the hearing.  Family Court judges in NYC are swamped to say the least. The demands on their time are severe and ultimately parents and children suffer. So how does one actually win a 1028 hearing? To begin with, the burden is on ACS to show that the parent is an imminent risk. Imminent does not mean possible. The risk must be real and lurking. Each case is unique but here are some things you must do: - Bring witnesses if any - Be prepared to testify on your own behalf. -Use ACS tactics against them. - Read all of the progress notes in the case. ACS has certain tricks and tactics that they use in order to win the hearing. Remember a chi...

Ex-con ACS worker accused of attacking 6-year-old boy in Manhattan Ad Duration 00:00 PLAY PLAY Current time LIVE Duration TOGGLE MUTE Volume SETTINGS PIP TOGGLE FULLSCREEN Candace McCowan, Eyewitness News Updated 39 mins ago KIPS BAY, Manhattan (WABC) --  A child welfare worker is accused of attacking a little boy in Manhattan and Eyewitness News has learned troubling details about his criminal past. Questions remain on how the employee was hired by ACS in the first place after he served 28 years behind bars for second-degree murder. Jacques Edwards, 55, was working Friday at the Nicholas Scoppetta Children's Center on 1st Avenue when the incident happened. EMBED  MORE NEWS VIDEOS NJ Burkett reports on the child welfare worker accused of attacking a little boy in Manhattan. Police say he's accused of pushing a 6-year-old boy in ACS custody into a door, before carrying him to a large metal cabinet...

All ACS workers tell parents they do not want to be on camera, Why not have a full and accurate record of what was discussed? ACS will record children when it suits them, the police record suspects on a daily basis. Why can't a citizen record an ACS worker? FIGHTACS.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...

Fiscal 2018 Preliminary Budget Highlights The City’s Preliminary Fiscal 201 8 Budget is $84.7 billion, $2.6 billion more than the Fiscal 2017 Adopted Budget of $82.1 billion. The Fiscal 2018 Preliminary Budget includes $61.6 billion in City tax-levy funding and $23.1 billion in non-City funds. The Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) Fiscal 2018 Preliminary Budget totals $3.03 billion (including City and non-City funds); this represents approximately 3.5 percent of the City’s total Budget. ACS’ Fiscal 2018 Preliminary Budget is $55.6 million more than the Fiscal 2017 Adopted Budget of $2.97 billion. *The difference of Fiscal 2017 Adopted Budget compared to Fiscal 2018 Preliminary Budget. When compared to the Fiscal 2017 Adopted Budget, personal services (PS) in the Fiscal 2018 Preliminary Budget increases by $37 million. Of the $37 million increase in PS spending, $26 million is for protective services. Other Than Personal Services (OTPS) spending increases by $18.6...