News and Articles of Interest:

• These Moms Smoked Weed Legally. Then Their Kids Were Taken Away, Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone Magazine (September 22, 2024)

• How judges can use their discretion to combat Anti-Black racism in the United States family policing system, Angela Olivia Burton and Joyce McMillan, JMacforFamilies (2023)

• “I’d Rather Take a Beating Than Catch a CPS Case”: Survivors Face an Impossible Choice, Jasmine Wali, The Nation (April 5, 2023)

• Praemonitus Praemunitus: The Importance of the In-Camera Interview in Child Custody Matters, Philip Katz, New York Law Journal (February 27, 2023) 

• Hochul Signs Into Law Measure Granting Custody Hearings to Unwed Fathers, Brooklyn Defenders (January 5, 2023)

• Hochul Signs Into Law Measure Granting Custody Hearings to Unwed Fathers, Brian Lee, New York Law Journal (January 4, 2023)

• We take foster kids from their parents. Then we wonder what’s wrong with them., Jasmine Wali, Boston Globe (December 22, 2022)

• The “Death Penalty” of Child Welfare: In Six Months or Less, Some Parents Lose Their Kids Forever, ProPublica (December 20, 2022)

• New York Committee to Investigate State’s Child Welfare System: Impacted Parents, Advocates Speak on Racial Disparities, Harm to Black Families, Hina Naveed, Human Rights Watch (May 20, 2022)

• ‘Weaponizing’ Calls to CPS Hotline: New York Legislation Would Deter False Reports, Madison Hunt, The Imprint Youth & Family News (May 19, 2022)

• Downward Modification of Court Ordered Support Obligations, Joel R. Brandes, New York Law Journal (March 28, 2022)

• New Civil Rights Organization Dedicated to Families’ Rights Launches in New York City, Madison Hunt, The Imprint Youth & Family News (March 23, 2022)

• NYC Family Court in Crisis, New Report Says, Melissa Russo and Hilary Weissman, nbcnewyork.com (February 3, 2022)

• The Family Regulatory System Devastates Black and Brown Communities (NYSDA News Picks 10-12-2021)

• How Do Child Support Obligations Affect Reintegration? (NYSDA News Picks 10-12-2021)

• Op-Ed on Failings in the Foster Care System (NYSDA News Picks 9-24-2021)

• ILS Posts Additional Information on Title IV-E Funding (NYSDA News Picks 9-24-2021)

• Due Process Requires an Evidentiary Hearing When Issuing a TOP (NYSDA News Picks, July 2, 2021)

• Standards for Modification of Child Support: Did 'Boden' Survive?, Joel R. Brandes, New York Law Journal (June 29, 2021)

• NYC Panel Discusses Changes to Mandated Reporting System (NYSDA News Picks 3-19-21)

• A Year in Review for Family Court Cases (NYSDA News Picks 3-1-21)

• The Virtues of Virtual: What New York’s youth and family courts might keep after the pandemic, Steven Yoder, The Imprint Youth and Family News (February 24, 2021)

• ILS Releases Long Anticipated Family Court Eligibility Standards (NYSDA News Picks 2-22-21)

• Family Court Defenders Urge Family Regulatory Reform (NYSDA News Picks 2-22-21)

• ACS Accused of Ordering Firing of Outspoken Critic and Parent Advocate (NYSDA News Picks 2-22-21)

• Governor Announces Proposals to Reform Forensic Custody Evaluations and the Family Regulatory System (NYSDA News Picks 2-1-21)

• Consider Joining Your Local Family Court Assigned Counsel Panel (NYSDA News Picks 2-1-21)

• Making a Parental “Designation” (NYSDA News Picks 2-1-21)

• New York Advocates Push Back on Governor’s Proposed Cuts to Preventive Services, Megan Conn, The Imprint Youth and Family News (February 1, 2021)

• NYS Family Court Assigned Counsel: Why I Joined and Why You Should, Too, Philip Katz, The New York Law Journal (January 22, 2021)

• Unsubstantiated Neglect Allegations Rejected by the Court (NYSDA News Picks 1-11-21)

• Parental Designation: A Way of Planning for the Expected and Unexpected, Sara Werner (January 05, 2021)

• Family Court Bills Signed into law in December (NYSDA News Picks 12-23-20)

• Criminal and Family Defenders Be Aware and Beware (NYSDA News Picks 12-23-20)

• Face-to-Face Contact with Children in Foster Care Essential (NYSDA News Picks 12-4-20) 

• Investigation Commences into Illegal Drug Testing of Expectant Mothers (NYSDA News Picks 11-18-20)

• City Parents and Advocates Highlight Disparities in the Child Welfare System (NYSDA News Picks 11-4-20)

• 'Essential' Matters Too Narrowly Defined by Family Court, Louise Feld (November 03, 2020)

• Understanding the Support Magistrate Objection Process, Joel R. Brandes, New York Law Journal (November 2, 2020)

• Too Many Black Families Get Caught in Child Welfare’s ‘Front Door,’ Advocates and System Leaders in New York Agree, Michael Fitzgerald, The Imprint Youth and Family News (October 28, 2020)

• OCFS Offers Some Guidance to CPS-ACS on TPR Filings (NYSDA News Picks 10-20-20)

• Calls to Expand Justice for “Emerging Adults” in the Criminal Justice System (NYSDA News Picks 10-20-20)

• A Joint Venture to Rethink Child Welfare (NYSDA News Picks 9-30-20)

• “Rethinking Justice for Emerging Adults” (NYSDA News Picks 9-30-20)

• Mixed Report on Raise the Age Reforms and Implementation in NYC (NYSDA News Picks 9-30-20)

• Easy-to-Understand Resource on Dealing with NYC ACS During the Pandemic (NYSDA News Picks 9-30-20)

• COVID-19 Ripple Effect: The Impact of COVID-19 on Children in New York State (United Hospital Fund, September 30, 2020) 

• Juvenile Defender Resources Ambassadors for Racial Justice Program Accepting Applications; Racial Justice Toolkit (NYSDA News Picks 8-31-20)

• Family Court Finds It Does Not Have the Power to Intervene with Collection of DNA Evidence from Minors in Police Custody (NYSDA News Picks 8-31-20)

• “We Cannot Permanently Separate Families Because of a Pandemic” (NYSDA News Picks 8-31-20)

• BLM means BFM: The Foster System Hurts Black Families & We Must Include Black Mothers in the Fight for Justice, Shriver Center on Poverty Law (Aug. 24, 2020)

• Don’t Forget About the Child Welfare System (NYSDA News Picks 8-18-20)

• It’s Not Enough to Mean Well: The Child Welfare System Is Racist, Even If Most Professionals Think They Are Not., Cathy Krebs, The Imprint Youth and Family News (Aug. 12, 2020)

• The Sad Omission of Child Welfare from Mainstream Discussion on Race, Tehra Coles, Zainab Akbar, Emma Ketteringham, and Lauren Shapiro, The Imprint Youth and Family News (Aug. 6, 2020)

• "Whatever They Do, I'm Her Comfort, I'm Her Protector." How the Foster System has Become Ground Zero for the U.S. Drug War (Movement for Family Power, June 2020)

• The Harm of Child Removal, Shanta Trivedi, University of Baltimore School of Law (2019)

• Backward Progress Toward Reinstating Parental Rights, LaShanda Taylor Adams, N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change (2018)

• Bio Family 2.0: Can the American Child Welfare System Finally Find Permanency of ‘Legal Orphans’ with a Statute to Reinstate Parental Rights?, Meredith L. Schalick, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2014)

• Permanency at What Cost – Five Years of Imprudence Under the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, Paul Anthony Wihelm, Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy (February 2014)

• Resurrecting Parents of Legal Orphans: Un-Terminating Parental Rights, Lashanda Taylor, Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law (Winter 2010)

• Rethinking Social Severance: Post-Termination Contact Between Birth Parents and Children, Alexis T. Williams, Connecticut Law Review (December 2008)