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  In a recent case, we were informed that a 14 year old girl who ACS has placed at the ACS Children's Center in Manhattan, has no supervision and is allowed to wander the streets until late into the night. When confronted, a high ranking ACS official advised us that " no force is used to force children to stay. they must want to stay." Thus children can come and go as they please and ACS offers no help for parents looking for supervision. This is the type of policy that is destroying families in the ACS system. If a parent allowed their 14 year old child to stay out all night and consume alcohol and do drugs, they would be charged with neglect. ACS is failing our children. ACSATTORNEY.COM STATENISLANDACSLAWYER.COM

 This is a common question and often never clearly answered by ACS. This is the official ACS statement on what ACS does during an investigation: During the investigation, ACS will: Contact the person who made the report within 24 hours, to gather more information. Make an unannounced visit to your home within 24 – 48 hours of the report. CPS must see and speak to all your biological children living with you or with other caretakers, as well as all children that are present in the home during the investigation. Speak to all adults or caretakers living in the home. Give you a letter called a Notice of Existence, informing you that you have an open investigation of abuse or maltreatment. If you are not home, CPS will leave a Notice of Home Visit letter informing you of the visit. Check to make sure your home is free of hazards, has adequate food, safe sleeping arrangements, etc. Go to your child’s school, talk to family members and other people who may know your child, like a neighbor...

I have nothing to hide. This is what most parents believe when they receive a call from ACS. Naturally, parents will freely let the ACS worker in and discuss all sorts of family issues. Here are some of the reasons why you should seek an attorney as soon as possible: - ACS workers have an agenda. First, if they can, they want to remove the child. If not, they want the parents to submit to supervision and useless services. Why? Its very simple. ACS has a $3.1 billion budget and they must have " customers" to use to keep their funding. - Anything you say to an ACS worker will not be recorded in any way and will later be twisted or lied about and used against you. - ACS workers will not tell you the truth about who called and why. - Once you are placed on the Child Maltreatment list you cannot adopt or work with children. -ACS workers will tell you that you do not need an attorney. This should raise a suspicion. If you have been visited by ACS, Contact an attorney as...

The answer is wherever the ACS worker decides. Upon first meeting the parents, the ACS worker will pry and ask as many questions as possible about the family as possible. This will help them reach their goal of demanding that parents attend classes and training. The favorite topic of ACS workers is when they can allege that there has been domestic violence in front of the children. The worker will then manufacture a case of abuse against the parents. Parents are  often shocked at the lies that ACS workers will accuse the parents of. If you are visited by an ACS worker contact an attorney at once. DO NOT SPEAK TO ACS WORKERS. FIGHTACS.COM BROOKLYNACSATTORNEY.COM

YOU CAN'T HAVE A LAWYER IN THIS CASE  ACS workers who visit parents at the home will often advise parents that they are not allowed a lawyer because the case is not in court. They may also use language like "you don''t need a lawyer". This is simply untrue. The right to counsel in New York is heavily protected by the courts. ACS workers despise dealing with attorneys and in fact ACS policy is that ACS workers do not speak to attorneys. ACS workers will only speak to parents. What is the reason for this policy? Government agents of all types speak to attorneys on a regular basis to resolve cases. ACS workers are very poorly trained and the vast majority have not been on the job very long. Turnover at ACS is rampant and many people quit after realizing the true dysfunction of the agency. BROOKLYNACSLAWYER.COM NYCACSLAWYER.COM FIGHTACS.COM

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.

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...

ACS workers will often demand to speak to the children alone outside the presence of the parents. This is a common request by aggressive ACS workers. If a parent does not comply, the ACS worker will go to court and ask a judge for an order directing the parents to do so. Unfortunately, we are seeing this tactic more and more. It is also true that the vast majority of Family Court judges will rubber stamp most ACS requests. It is difficult to find a truly independent Family Court judge. Most live in fear of ACS, Thus granting any motion ACS brings before them. If you are a parent facing such an issues, contact an attorney immediately. You must address these issues in court and make the judge aware what ACS workers have been doing. FIGHTACS.COM

Mom charged in baby’s death had already lost custody of 3 kids By  Rich Calder ,  Reuven Fenton  and  Tina Moore June 13, 2018  |  5:47pm  |   Updated  Modal Trigger Joann McLeod Wayne Carrington A K2-addict Bronx mom with a history of having her kids taken away by ACS was allowed to keep her baby despite claims of drug use and neglect in her squalid home —  and two weeks later, she allegedly killed him , sources told The Post on Wednesday. Administration for Children’s Services workers visited Joann McLeod’s apartment in the Bronx River Houses on May 20 based on a complaint, but decided that 5-month-old Raymond Porfil Jr. was not in danger, the sources said. SEE ALSO Mom arrested after baby dies from 'extreme abuse and neglect': cops On June 4, McLeod allegedly threw him against a wall and then put him in his crib rather than seek medical help because she feared she would go to jail, authorities...

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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

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...

Governor Cuomo moved to defund a useless and badly managed program run by ACS to manage juvenile delinquents. There have been hundreds of escapes and the program replay highlights the incompetence that has become the hallmark of ACS. At each step of the child protection process, ACS fails. They fail the children who are really in need and they attack good parents who have done nothing wrong. However, ACS is never held accountable. ACS workers are rarely fired and the Mayor keeps bringing in one commissioner after another to appear as of he is doing something. We, as the people of NYC deserve so much better.  Read the story here. BROOKLYNACSLAWYER.COM BROOKLYNACSATTORNEY.COM

Parents that have dealt with ACS workers tell horrific tales. How does ACS conduct an investigation?First, the ACS worker will appear on your doorstep without an warning or advance notice. Second they usually do not show id or provide business cards to parents because they do not want to be identified. They will then tell the parent that someone called and ACS has concerns. Any anonymous phone call to ACS will start an investigation. The worker will not tell the parent the exact charges but will only state that ACS has concerns. The ACS worker will then try to speak to your children alone. The most important part of the investigation and what ACS workers are fearful of doing, is recording the interviews in any way. In an era where digital recording is cheap and easy, this is a nightmare for the ACS worker. By not recording the interviews, ACS workers will claim that the parent said things that they did not say. Remember, the ACS worker has two goals. First, is the removal of the ch...