NEW YORK CITY ACS DEFENSE LAWYER

This is the ultimate question we receive from parents. ACS has the power to remove a child in an " emergency" under the Family Court Act. ACS can also ask a judge to remove a child from a parent during the pendency of a case. Some of the major reasons that ACS would remove a child are: - sexual abuse - excessive corporal punishment - alcohol or drug abuse by parent - disobeying court order Once a child has been removed from a parent they can either go into the care of a relative, known as kinship care, or into the foster care system. The foster care system in New York City is rife with abuse and neglect and is expressly poorly managed. It is one of the major failures of ACS. While their are many well-meaning foster care parents, ACS is highly dysfunctional in supporting them. This has been a problem for decades and ACS refuses to fix the issues in the foster care system. FIGHTACS.COM BROOKLYNACSLAWYER.COM QUEENSACSLAWYER.COM

 We need to revisit this topic because it comes up so often in our practice and by desperate parents who are involved in ACS cases. To begin with, what is meant by suing ACS is filing a lawsuit against the agency, the worker, and the City of New York. In order to file a lawsuit, you should obtain an attorney. While you can file a lawsuit pro se ( without a lawyer), the laws regarding suing the City and the legal procedures are simply too complicated for a non-lawyer to be effective. Thus the first obstacle is retaining a lawyer who will take your case. This is a major hurdle. Cities and states have whats called, qualified immunity. This makes them more difficult to sue. The kind of lawyer you would need is a personal injury lawyer. This may sound strange, but these are the lawyers that routinely sue NYC in court for violating the rights of citizens. There is also another major obstacle. Because these lawyers are used to suing the NYPD and various public agencies, they have very l...

ACS workers will now have former NYPD cops to help them in investigations. As the video states, " they will help parents open the door". This means that the officer will be used to intimidate parents into following ACS orders. This will lead to an attack on the rights of parents. BROOKLYNACSLAWYER.COM

Howard Beach & Richmond Hill Crime & Mayhem 3-Month-Old Boy in Foster Care Found Dead in Queens Home, Sources Say By Ben Fractenberg | March 7, 2017 6:27pm @fractenberg Twitter Facebook Email More QUEENS — A three-month-old boy in the care of a foster mother was found dead in a South Ozone Park home Tuesday afternoon, police and sources said. The child was inside 115-30 132nd St. at about 12:30 p.m. when he was found unconscious and unresponsive, the NYPD  said. He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital , where he was later pronounced dead. The boy had been released from a hospital Monday into the foster mother’s care, sources said. It was not immediately clear why he had been in the hospital. There were no ...

The NYPOST reported that ACS is so bloated with supervisors that its completely dysfunctional. Of the 1,932 upper-echelon workers employed by ACS, only 496 were “child protective specialist supervisors” dealing directly with cases of abuse and neglect, while the rest filled out the agency’s bureaucracy. These bosses never leave the office and rarely attend court. The lack of leadership  at the agency is amazing given how many "bosses" are available to supervise cases and make sure thinsg go right. The story of ACS dysfunction keeps growing larger. It is time for the entire leadership to be replaced so our children do not continue to suffer. FIGHTACS.COM

EXCLUSIVE: ACS caseworker who had evidence of Zymere Perkins abuse closed his file because she got promoted Tweet email ACS caseworker Nitza Sutton closed the file on Zymere Perkins in April. Months later, he was found dead with bruises on his body. (YouTube) BY Ryan Sit Graham Rayman NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Tuesday, October 11, 2016, 12:28 AM The caseworker assigned to probe abuse allegations involving little Zymere Perkins closed the case because she was more interested in getting a promotion, sources told the Daily News. Child protective specialist Nitza Sutton, 48, closed Zymere’s case after just 12 days this past April — even though she took photos of injuries on the child’s body, according to child welfare sources who saw the boy’s file, several sources said. “She (Sutton) went to the home,” an Administration for Children’s Services source told The News. ...

ACS Commissioner Gladys Carrion could use a civics lesson. Under fire over the death of 6-year-old Zymere Perkins, Carrion snapped at a Daily News photographer Tuesday — for taking a picture of her on a public sidewalk. “How many more photos are you gonna take?” Carrion said as she left her Bronx home and stepped into a black Toyota SUV. “This is invasion of privacy, if you ask me.” The embattled Administration for Children’s Services chief has taken heat for refusing to address the tragic case of Zymere, a Harlem boy who police say died Sept. 26 after being brutalized by his troubled mother’s hulking beau. ACS commissioner to address Zymere Perkins case Wednesday City officials say Carrion will finally discuss Zymere’s death — and the problems it exposed within ACS — at a Wednesday press conference. It’s likely to be a challenging experience for Carrion who needed a City Hall escort to shield her from a reporter and photographer on Monday. Carrion is...

I would like to thank the People of Manhattan Local Access that allowed me to share this crucial information on how to stop ACS from abusing your family. You can see the video in its entirety here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sajOd09snvI&index=3&list=PLvERUaNfZniJdodYVib9qrcedzav-qGux&spfreload=5

I would like to thank the People of Manhattan Local Access that allowed me to share this crucial information on how to stop ACS from abusing your family. You can see the video in its entirety here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sajOd09snvI&index=3&list=PLvERUaNfZniJdodYVib9qrcedzav-qGux&spfreload=5

After years of handling ACS cases, one piece of advice stands the test of time. No parent should engage the ACS worker in discussions about the case without an attorney. There are some basic and very important reasons for not doing so. First and foremost, the ACS worker is trained to look for anything that they can blame the parent for. They will dig into your life, speak to teachers and even harass your neighbors. Second, ACS workers do not record the conversations in any way. If you notice any trial, the courtroom has a court reporter that writes down everything that has been said. This is very important because words matter. In fact, ACS workers are in constant fear of being recorded given the ease and wide spread use of cell phones today. Once you tell them you are recording, they will become agitated and scream that they don't want to be recorded. Lastly, if you speak to the ACS worker they can claim you made statements you did not make. This is crucial when handling cases of...

Routinely, ACS lawyers need exert witnesses to testify in court against parents.  These experts need to be nurses or medical doctors. In order to advance their agenda, ACS has a few medical professionals on call for court testimony.  These are not doctors and nurses in the traditional sense. They are part of the ACS apparatus that accuses parents of child abuse. They do very little research in any of the cases and will gladly swear under oath that the child they have examined is being abused by their parents. In  the most outrageous cases, the child psychologist will testify about a child, without ever speaking with them. In our practice we routinely see ACS use the same "experts" over and over again. The ACS lawyers count on the fact that most parents in New York City accused of abuse cannot afford to hire their own experts. In one recent child abuse trial, the ACS experts were easily discredited and the client was found NOT GUILTY of all charges. Child abuse should not ...

Under the Family Court Act ACS has the power of Emergency Removal of a child from a parent, the law states: A peace officer, acting pursuant to his or her special duties, police officer, or a law enforcement official, or a designated employee of a city or county department of social services shall take all necessary measures to protect a child's life or health including, when appropriate, taking or keeping a child in protective custody, and any physician shall notify the local department of social services or appropriate police authorities to take custody of any child such physician is treating, without an order under section one thousand twenty-two of this article and without the consent of the parent or other person legally responsible for the child's care, regardless of whether the parent or other person legally responsible for the child's care is absent, if (i) such person has reasonable cause to believe that the child is in such circumstance or condition...