NYC's Administration for Children's Services is able to investigate anonymous tips to justify suddenly taking a child from their caregiver—10% of cases are later scrapped by a judge. A new civil rights org. plans to target the agency over the separations.
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She said the investigators searched her home and interviewed her grandson before taking him away that night in tears, without any explanation of who had complained or what she was accused of. When she finally was able to be heard in court about three days later, a judge ordered her grandson returned to her care.
A newly formed civil rights organization called the Family Justice Law Center aims to end this type of family separation, along with a myriad of other issues within the children's services agency. The group’s founder, attorney David Shalleck-Klein, said it will target ACS with lawsuits — the same way New York Civil Liberties Union or Legal Aid regularly sue the police and corrections departments to force policy changes.
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