Lawsuit Challenges New York's Child Welfare Agency Over Warrantless Removal of Children
By
Larissa MacFarquhar
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Summary
A class-action lawsuit is challenging the emergency-removal practices of New York's Administration for Children's Services (ACS), which allows caseworkers to take children from their parents without a court order. The article traces the history of child welfare in New York City, from the crisis of the 1990s with nearly 45,000 children in foster care to the current reduced numbers of around 6,500. During the pandemic, ACS further reduced removals, but the lawsuit argues that the agency still unconstitutionally removes children without judicial oversight, disproportionately affecting families of color and low-income communities.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledWhen child-welfare officials in New York City talk publicly about taking children from their parents, they often point out how drastically the system has changed since the dark days of the nineteen-nineties.
Back then, there were nearly forty-five thousand children in foster care; now there are fewer than sixty-five hundred.
This reduction is a source of pride at the Administration for Children's Services (A.C.S.), the child-welfare agency in New York—no one says that, in the nineties, children were safer.
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