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...

We have always strongly advised to record the ACS worker. We advise clients to tell the ACS worker that they are being recorded. It would be best to make a video recording. The ACS worker will react in a very negative manner. They will wrongly tell the parent that it is illegal to record her and that she does not want to be recorded. New York law allows in most cases to record your own conversations. As soon as you are aware that an ACS worker is coming after your family. contact an attorney ASAP. You can always advised the ACS worker that you are represented by counsel. BROOKLYNACSATTORNEY.COM