NEW YORK CITY ACS DEFENSE LAWYER

The answer yo this question is a resounding NO. Even experienced attorneys do not represent themselves in legal matters. The reason is that your emotional attachment to case will cloud your judgement. Also, and most importantly, ACS lawyers and workers often lie in court about everry facet of the case. You must have an experienced attorney next to you who knows how to attack these lies. The tactic of the ACS lawyer and worker is to always blame the parent and hide as many negative facts as possible. ACSATTORNEYS.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...

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 ...

A nightmarish string of medical errors left a Long Island baby dead, and her grieving parents were falsely accused of abuse, according to a lawsuit. Sara Keenan, 35, had breastfed baby Lana and put her down for a nap on Jan. 3, 2014. About an hour later, the dad, Padraig Keenan, 37, found the 3-month-old in her crib, choking on her own vomit, they claim. Miraculously, a houseguest who works as an EMT quickly revived the baby, who began to breathe again. The parents then called 911, unknowingly igniting a chain reaction of medical missteps that doomed their tiny daughter, according to their suit. Emergency medical technicians from Exchange Ambulances of the Islips failed to intubate the infant, give oxygen, or even protect her from frigid temperatures as they carried her to an ambulance parked four doors away, according to court papers filed last week. Instead of taking the child to pediatric intensive care units at nearby Good Samaritan or Stony Brook hospitals, th...

ACS workers have many tricks and methods in which to attack parents with. One of the most used is to avoid identifying themselves when they make a home visit. we have all see TV shows where the FBI or police go to a home and as soon as the door opens, the homeowner is shown ID and given a business card. These are people employed by the state to do a job and thus, must prove to the public who they are. The ACS worker takes another path. She will often come to the door, give her last name only and not show any form of ID. When she leaves, she will not leave a business card. I have brought this issue up with ACS supervisors and have been advised that ACS issues ID to all workers and they must show them to parents. Yet, in case after case, ACS workers try to conceal who they are. Why? If an ACS worker cannot be tracked, then they cannot be held accountable. It is the equivalent of cops covering up their badge numbers. How will you ever hold anyone accountable if they cannot be identifi...

The first tools that an ACS worker learns to use against parents is threats and intimidation. This is a very effective strategy. ACS workers can remove a child from a home based on their opinion alone. It is with this threat, that parents are attacked with and demanded that they comply with ACS directives. There are two very important rights that ACS workers are most afraid of. First, in New York state, you , as an individual, have the right to record your conversations as long as you're part of the conversation. With the rise of cell phone cameras this is now easier then ever. As soon as an ACS worker begins to contact you, record all of the interactions. Let the ACS worker know you are recording all of the interactions. You will be threatened and attacked for doing so. Many of our clients have been told by ACS workers that it is illegal for them to be taped. This is simply not the law. State and federal police agencies record criminals on a daily basis.  Record, record, record!! ...

ACS Commissioner Gladys Carrion is stepping down   Finally, Gladys Carrion is stepping down as ACS Commissioner. Her lack of leadership leaves two dead children in its wake. This is not enough. All of the ACS bosses need to be replaced and an entire  retraining of all ACS workers needs to be done if we are to save the children in need. 

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 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 ACS worker has two main goals. One is to have the parent admit that they are bad parents and need help and second. they will referr the parent to useless services. We will now examine some common ACS threats against parents. - YOU HAVE TO COOPERATE! The ACS worker will tell a parent that they are not being cooperative and threaten with taking them to court. - WE WILL GO TO COURT- If a parent resists ACS in any way, they will threaten to take them to court. This threat is very effective for the obvious reasons. - IF YOU COMPLY, IT WILL BE EASIER- This threat implies that if you offer any resistance ACS will make your life much harder. This is a truly disgraceful tactic, however, it happens every single day. If you have been contacted by an ACS worker, do not wait to be attacked. Contact an attorney as soon as possible. Do not give up your rights. BROOKLYNACSLAWYER.COM

The case was as complicated as it gets. F.S. and his soon to be ex-wife were in the process of a hotly contested divorce. She had accused him of domestic violence, had him arrested and ACS brought neglect charges against F.S. in Family Court. After a trial before the Hon. Emily Olshansky, the Court found the client did not commit child abuse. "There was a lot at stake for our client in this case. If he lost this case he would have certainly lost custody," Mr. Discioarro said. The soon to be ex-wife testified how awful and controlling F.S. was and how he was violent and abused her for years. Meanwhile, under intense cross-examination, she admitted to shoplifting, and even lying to her friends and family on Facebook as to her academic achievements. "ACS did a very poor job of investigating this case," Mr. Discioarro said. "They should have known that this woman was lying about almost everything in her life." The judge rendered a verdict from the...