NEW YORK CITY ACS DEFENSE LAWYER

 ACS commissioner David Hansell recently announced the formation of Family Enrichment Centers to "help families in need" The Administration for Children’s Services is funding the new centers under the auspices of its newly created Division of Child and Family Well-Being. We have appropriated the necessary resources to ensure that the centers have what they need to succeed. Each contracted site will receive $450,000 a year and ACS is allocated an additional $150,000 for training, technology and other costs . At $600,00.00 a year these centers will serve as a new way to intake cases into the ACS system It will provide ACS with a softer approach to force parents into useless services that prop up the ACS budget and new opportunities to remove children from their parents and place them in foster care which is where ACS gains most of their financial windfall.  Meanwhile, ACS was fined and held in contempt for not buying a child in foster care a new wheelchair that was badly needed...

 In New York all ACS cases are heard and decided by a judge. There are no juries. Thus, the decisions are left in the hands of a few judges who are overwhelmed by their caseload.  These are the hardest working judges in our system and they face a difficult job. ACS knows this. ACS lawyers and workers have a system of attacking the courts to bend them to their will. The first ruse that they use is to have the ACS worker be the "client" of the ACS lawyer. Despite working for the same organization, ACS uses this strategy to manipulate judges. When the lawyers do not want to address an issues, they routinely say " I will have to speak to my client." this allows them to divide responsibility ad not ne held accountable. ACS workers are not childcare experts, have virtually no training or experience and they often leave the agency within two years. Another way ACS attacks the courts is to imply that if the judge does not go along with ACS orders that horrible things will h...