NEW YORK CITY ACS DEFENSE LAWYER

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...

ACS workers will often tell parents that the investigation will be open for 60 days. This gives the parents the false hope that of ACS does not find anything in 60 days that the case will be closed. The reality is that this is simply a lie to put the parents at ease. ACS does not follow any timeline or protocol for any of its investigations. For example, in one of our recent cases the parent was visited and threatened with court action by four separate ACS workers. By telling the parent that there is a 60 day window, ACS workers are attempting to induce the parent into "cooperating" in the investigation. As we have discussed, an ACS worker has two goals. The first and most coveted for an ACS worker is the removal of the children from the home into the foster care system. Once a child is placed in foster care, ACS is rewarded with more state and federal funds to care for that child. As well as getting credit for "saving" the child from an abusive parent. The seco...

Each day, thousands of people are falsely accused of domestic violence. Why? Why are these charges so easily brought against innocent people and how acs you fight them? The first question is very complicated. There are many reasons why people file false domestic violence charges against innocent partners. The first and most prevalent reason is a fight over child custody. When one party can accuse the other of domestic violence, they can receive an advantage in court and obtain custody of their children. Also, it may give them an advantage in their divorce proceeding and be able to use it as a bargaining chip. Another reason why people file false domestic violence charges is that there are many state and federal benefits give to " victims" of domestic violence. For example, if you can show that you were a "victim" of domestic violence you can obtain public benefits, housing and immigration status ahead of others. This is a powerful motive for people to manufactur...