Commissioner Ali details ACS audit implementation
Commissioner Ali details ACS progress, including stronger review of orders of protection and monthly audits of family court reports for improper immigration status references. She says ACS incorporated these practices into trainings and supervision.
I wanted to take a moment to highlight a few examples of the progress our city agencies have made in strengthening their protocols and implementing audit recommendations.
The Administration for Children's Services has strengthened its practice of reviewing determinations for seeking orders of protection if the safety of the children and caregiver can be met otherwise when there are potential negative
immigration consequences for the parent.
The agency has incorporated this practice into its trainings, into its meetings with family court legal services, and throughout the supervision process.
ACS has also established a process through which the agency will review a set of court reports from every borough family court legal services unit each month to audit them for inappropriate references to a person's immigration status.