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

Opinion: City is Spinning Child-Welfare Stats By   Richard Wexler  |   March 28, 2019 RECOMMEND TWEET   EMAIL PRINT MORE NYC MMR Were there a hotline to which one could report statistics abuse, the leaders of  New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services would have their rights to their spreadsheet software terminated. ACS Commissioner David Hansell’s  recent column  for  City Limits  is only the latest example.  The agency regularly cherry-picks data to disguise the fact that, under Hansell’s leadership, ACS has retreated from reform and subjected more children to the enormous trauma of needless foster care. Consider the matter of time frames.  When it suites him, Hansell is willing to go back decades, in effect taking credit for the accomplishments of others in reducing the number of children in foster care on any given day. But when it comes to the number of children torn from their families in the mos...

After ACS has made their initial visit, the ACS workers and supervisors have a very useful tool which they use to attack parents with. It is called a CHILD SAFETY CONFERENCE. The parents are ordered by the ACS worker to be at their office at a certain time. One they arrive the parents will be meeting with the ACS worker and her supervisor. This can be more aptly called an ambush. At this conference the ACS worker will accuse the parents of wrongdoing and demand that they enter into "services". During the process, the parents will be threatened with the removal of their children and court action. ACS workers often threaten parents with the statement " we will take this to court ". On important fact about CHILD SAFETY CONFERENCES IS THAT ATTORNEYS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE. ACS worker will not even allow the attorney to wait in the lobby. Thus ACS is the only state agency in America who does not allow an attorney to participate in their proceedings. This puts ...

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

According to ACS policy, ACA has 60 days to wrap up an investigation once they receive a report of child abuse. ACS workers like to tell parents of this "60 day rule" because it gives the parent false hope that the investigation will come to an en in 60 days and there is light at the end of the tunnel. There is just one problem, its a complete lie. ACS workers do not follow any time frames in terms of investigating parents. They will often disappear for months, only to turn up at the home demanding that the parent enter into services. If they find that a case is too difficult and will require a lot of work, they will end the investigation early and make it appear as if they have completed it. In some cases ACS waits months before going to court and trying to remove the child in an "emergency removal" with the help of the police. Do no believe the ACS worker when they say the investigation will only last 60 days, its simply a tactic.       QUEENSACSATTORNEY.CO M....

The ultimate nightmare for any parent is the removal of their child out of the home. In the vast majority of cases this does not occur. However, ACS has the power to do so. The are called Emergency Removals. If the ACS worker feels that your child is unsafe they will contact the police and the child will be removed. ACS must then go to court and file a petition against the parent.  In this type of situation, time is of the essence. You MUST contact an attorney as soon as possible. ACS workers use this stressful time to manufacture a case against the parents and demand that you follow their demands. An attorney can put an end to this. If your child has been removed, contact us 24 hours a day at 917-519-8417. We are here to help. WWW.NYCACSLAWYER.COM

St. George & Port Richmond Crime & Mayhem Teen Escapes From ACS Custody in Staten Island, Police Say By Nicholas Rizzi | January 11, 2017 4:27pm @nickr15 Twitter Facebook Email More ST. GEORGE — A teen escaped from custody while awaiting trial on attempted assault charges, according to police and reports. The 16-year-old escaped from Administration for Children's Services custody outside of Family Court in St. George, Staten Island, shortly after noon on Wednesday. Police were helping to hunt for him, according to the NYPD . "In Family Court today, a young man left the care of ACS ," a spokeswoman for ACS said in a statement. "We’re in touch with his family, and are working with the NYPD to ensure he is foun...

The NYC Department of Investigations has issued a report detailing how acs has failed. The report details just how incompetent ACS is as an organization. The simple fact that they do not have the proper staff to work on weekend. It is simply shocking that ACS has to be told that they must have staff working on weekends. “The investigation found that despite ACS having the mandate, resources and information to urgently find Jaden, ACS did not find Jaden before he was allegedly beaten into a coma on Monday, November 28, 2016,” the report said. “Specifically, DOI determined that while ACS publicly stated that it only obtained the correct address for Jaden on Monday, November 28th, ACS workers in fact had access to databases that would have provided the correct address for Jaden as early as Saturday, November 26th, when they first received the allegations of abuse and neglect.” This is the second report in 10 years. The first was in 2007. ACS keeps failing and our children k...

Zymere Perkins (left) and Jaden Jordan (right) both died even though their child abuse cases were investigated by ACS. Robert Miller; Facebook More On: acs ACS employs more bosses than abuse caseworkers De Blasio says he had to take credit for appointing ACS monitor Feminists' mom-shaming of Kellyanne Conway is out of control Buckle up — Trump's era of disruption has only just begun Ten kids died despite each being the subject of at least four abuse or maltreatment complaints to the city’s troubled child welfare agency in the weeks leading up to the slaying of little Zymere Perkins , a probe by Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office has found. The tragedies were among 38 deaths involving vulnerable children flagged for high-priority investigations by the Administration for Children’s Services, Stringer found in the report, a copy of which was obtained by The Post. In a letter to outgoing ACS Commiss...

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

As we have discussed, anyone with a phone can call ACS on anyone else. ACS does not investigate who calls. they simply go and attack the parent. One of the most common calls to ACS is that a parent is using "drugs". The ACS worker will then go to the home and demand that the parent take a drug test. This is a trap. The way ACS uses drug tests is as follows. If they are positive, even for marijuana, they will demand that the parent enter into a drug program. If they are negative, they will hide the results and harass the parent until the parent enters a drug program. For ACS , the accusation is the proof of the case. The ACS workers are very poorly trained, badly educated, and extremely arrogant. It is very difficult for parents to deal with them because they are so unprofessional and the parents are not prepared for this. Many ACS workers we have spoke to will not even give us their business cards or full names. In fact, letters that parents receive from ACS only have the wor...

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. ...

As we have discussed in the past, ACS receives a  good amount of cases from the New York City Public Schools. The bureaucracy in these schools is such that as soon as they see an opportunity to contact ACS, they do. This protects them from further liability by passing the buck to another incompetent state agency. THE NYC DOE is a large dysfunctional system focused on protecting its funding and turf. Parents must be aware of this alliance between the ACS workers and the administrators. They routinely join forces to attack parents and force ACS into a parent's life. Be aware of them. FIGHTACS.COM

As we have discussed in the past, there are no juries in Family Court . Thus, all of the power resides in the judge. So when a judge has an opinion about a case, both parties have to heed that opinion. In once recent case, we were defending a family in court when the judge excluded the family from court and had a conference with only the lawyers. This is common in almost every area of law. Judges, with limited time, try to settle cases. The problem in family court is that because there are no juries, what the judge says is law. In most other areas of law you can tell a judge that you would like a juries opinion about case. This underscores the need for juries in Family Court . There simply is no reason why a fair society must give all the power to one individual in matters as important as this. ACSATTORNEY.COM

ACS in Brooklyn is located at: ACS 1274 Bedford Ave,  Brooklyn, NY 11216 Phone : (718) 623-4500   The cases against parents are filed with Brooklyn Family Court. This is the link for Court.  Brooklyn has gone through a fundamental transformation in the last 15 years. Real estate prices are soaring and many neighborhoods are being gentrified. However, central Brooklyn is still a low income are with many households headed by a single mom. These are the people most vulnerable to an attack by an ACS worker. ACS workers must justify their positions and salaries and that means accusing parents of neglect in any way they can. Luckily, we are fortunate to have many courageous judges in Brooklyn Family Court that will challenge ACS workers and hold them accountable. Many judges are very aware of the abuses that ACS is involved with and try very hard to listen to the parents' side of the story. If you have been targeted by an ACS worker, do NOT speak to them. Contact a ...

ACS in the Bronx is located at: 2501 Grand Concourse 4th Floor Bronx, NY 10468  The cases brought by ACS are handled in Bronx Family Court.That can be found here.http://www.nycourts.gov/ According to the Census Bureau, Bronx County is one of the poorest counties in America. ACS is very active here. ACS workers employ a tactic where they use a parent's poverty against them. Routinely you will see single mothers and fathers being abused in Bronx Family Court by ACS workers and lawyers. One saving grace is that Bronx Family court has some courageous judges that will hold ACS accountable. By most measures the Bronx ACS office is the most disorganized and dysfunctional in New York City. The ACS workers are the most rude and most unprofessional. This stems from the fact that they believe that poor people will not stand up for their rights. If you have been contacted by a Bronx ACS workers, call an attorney as soon as possible. Be aware of your rights.

The Family Court Act and the New York Civil Procedure Law spell out exactly how a parent should be notified to appear in court. These are legally mandated rules that must be followed by anyone in the court system. Well, here is how ACS attempts to serve parents of a legal notice. Our clients found this under their door. The name of the client is wrong, it does not give any information about the case and is absolutely not acceptable as a form of legal service. This is yet another example of the dysfunction at ACS. This agency has the power to remove children and cannot even properly serve a parent. It is a disgrace. brooklynacslawyer.com

This is a common question that many parents have. When contacted by ACS, most parents believe that they have nothing to hide and there is no harm in cooperating. This is understandable, but a deeply flawed decision. ACS workers are not interested in the well-being of the child. Their goal is to have the parents enter into "services" so ACS keeps its massive funding from city and state officials. Thus, if anyone calls ACS and accuses a parent of abusing drugs or alcohol. ACS workers will come to your home and demand that you take a drug test or be evaluated for alcohol abuse. The ACS worker will do absolutely no investigation into the source of the report or its veracity. To ACS, the accusation IS the evidence. In order to prevent this type of abuse, it is imperative for a parent to contact an attorney as soon as ACS contacts them. This will take away all of the power away from ACS. In the vast majority of cases that we are contacted early, the ACS worker simply moves on to...

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...