NEW YORK CITY ACS DEFENSE LAWYER

 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 routinely will ask parents to sign HIPPA forms so they may obtain a child's medical records. This even after the investigation has revealed that there is nothing wrong with the child. The ACS worker will states that their supervisor wants it and they are just following "protocol". The reason for the form is so ACS can dig through the child's medical records and find something to attack the parents with. A missed doctor's appointment or disagreeing with a doctor about a child's treatment are all reasons for ACS to possibly file a petition against the parents in family court. Before signing a HIPPA form, speak to an attorney. FIGHTACS.COM BROOKLYNACSATTORNEY.COM

PROTRACTED 1028 HEARINGS FIVE CASE STUDIES RAISING STATUTORY AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONCERNS ABOUT NON- EXPEDITED HEARINGS UNDER SECTION 1028 OF THE FAMILY COURT ACT IMPACT LITIGATION PRACTICE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The New York Family Court Act enumerates procedures in abuse and neglect cases that are intended to safeguard fundamental familial rights. These procedures balance the state’s interest in protecting children from harm with the family’s interest in unity free from government interference. The Bronx Defenders represents thousands of parents facing abuse and neglect allegations each year. In this report, we shine a light on operational and structural problems within the Bronx Family Court that routinely result in the prolonged and unwarranted separation of families and which cause the kinds of harm that the Family Court Act was designed to prevent. When the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) temporarily removes children from their parents pending trial in abus...

Failing kids De Blasio’s pratfalls on the national stage have been comic; his failures here in the city tragic. We’re thinking particularly of the children who died thanks to mismanagement at the Administration for Children’s Services. De Blasio took office vowing to fix ACS, yet his pick to run it, Gladys Carrión, abandoned key management practices, such as agency-wide video conferences where top staff reviewed casework best practices. Other progressive politicians, including then-Public Advocate Letitia James, issued reports warning that ACS was going downhill; the mayor ignored them. FIGHTACS.COM Then children who’d been on ACS’s radar — in homes the agency had been called to investigate — started  dying from abuse . Zymere Perkins, 6, beaten to death. Jaden Jordan, 3, same fate. SEE ALSO Child abuse reports surge after high-profile tragedies Weeks later, after  Mikey Guzman , 5, joined the list despite 13 ACS visits to the home, de Blasio f...

THIS IS A SIMPLE YET GREAT VIDEO ON HOW ACS PLACES CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE. CALL OUT HOTLINE AT 917-519-8417 FIGHTACS.COM BROOKLYNACSLAWYER.COM ACSATTORNEY.COM

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

The Staten Island ACS office is located at 350 St. Marks Place, from this office ACS workers fan out across the island and do home visits. Even while a case is in court and the parents are represented by an attorney, the ACS worker will do a home visit and speak to the parents about the case. The usual ACS worker tactic is to attack the parents as much as possible, disregard their right to counsel and then write  a report to the judge that mentions nothing about what actually happened. we strongly encourage every parent to write their own log of what occurred and give them to their attorney to present to the judge. Also, it is perfectly legal for parents to record ACS both video and audio. In fact, in a recent case a judge in Brooklyn actually placed in her order that the parent is allowed to record ACS visits. The ACS workers will tell you that it is not legal and attack you. Do not fall victim to their lies. NYCACSLAWYER.COM