After an internal New York City Administration of Children’s Services (ACS) audit was conducted and consequently buried in 2020, suspicions of racial biased practices that disrupt Black, brown and low-income families were confirmed.
, which would require ACS to provide a multilingual disclosure form to parents or guardians during a child protective investigation.
Several groups within the Parent Legislative Action Network have been pivotal in pushing to end ACS’s treatment of Black and brown families, like founder, the Bronx Defenders, Brooklyn Defender Services, Neighborhood Defender Services and the Center for Family Representation. Members of these various groups said that ACS has made very little visible progress towards improving their practices or adapting recommendations from community groups.
Zainab Akbar, managing attorney of the Family Defense Practice at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, said that ACS has essentially built a myth of benevolence that is simply not true or equitable. She asserts that ACS parallels the NYPD in that it doesn’t represent safety for low-income Black and brown communities since ACS decisions often result in some sort of punishment, surveillance or prosecution.
Akbar said there’s no real definition of safety but there is a legal definition for neglect and abuse. Families are technically required to provide the minimum degree of care and that is colored by what a worker determines a “family” should look like and what they think parenting is.
Teyora Graves-Ferrell, parent advocate supervisor for Center for Family Representation, was one of the people interviewed in the report. She said it’s jarring for their client families when they make a plan with a case worker, who may be of color, and then have the plan overruled in a predominantly white-run courtroom.
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