NEW YORK CITY ACS DEFENSE LAWYER

 The most important thing a parent can do is not speak to an ACS worker without an attorney.Every day in our practice parents, tell us the nightmare stories that they have suffered at the hands of ACS workers. It all begins with the parent talking to an ACS worker about their family. Let us remember the two a main goals of ACS: 1. To remove children to foster care 2. To register parents in useless services that help no one. The goal of all ACS workers is to attack the parents and create a court case against them. Ironically, ACS workers only attack good parents. WHY? because they know that these parents will never harm their children. Thus, after ACS has them enrolled in useless classes and services, they can claim that they have "fixed" a family.  Now  children in crisis are very difficult to help that is why so many children who need real help die while they are under ACS supervision. The dysfunction of ACS harms good parents and does not help children in need. ...

THE New York TIMES RAN THE FOLLOWING STORY TODAY ON THE DANGERS OF BEING INDICATED FOR CHILD ABUSE. GO TO THIS LINK. FIGHTACS.CO M BROOKLYNACSLAWYER.COM ADVERTISEMENT The issue has become especially urgent as more people apply to become home health aides, one of the fastest growing industries in the country. In New York, agencies that work with children or vulnerable adults are required to screen job applicants through the registry. Last year, the state processed more than 316,000 of those background checks. Parents and their advocates are pushing elected officials to consider reducing the amount of time a name lingers on the register to five years, with some exceptions. You have  1 free article  remaining. Subscribe to The Times Registers were created decades ago to address the kind of recurrent abuse that can fall through the cracks, often revealed when a child is killed. A previous report of abuse is the strongest predictor of...

ACS accuses parents in two different legal ways. One is in Family Court, where they can actually take away the child. The other is at OCFS. This is a state agency that does hearings on whether a parent should be indicated for child abuse and be placed on the state registry for maltreatment. The usual ACS tactic is if they cannot manufacture enough evidence against the parents in Family Court, they will file the case at OCFS. The hearings at OCFS are much more informal where hearsay is allowed. This is a very confusing process for parents. It is designed to give ACS workers another avenue to falsely accuse parents. If ACS has contacted you, do NOT speak to the ACS worker without an attorney.