Child Welfare Officials in New York Get an Earful on Hazards of CPS Hotline Practices

October 9, 2024

CFR’s Senior Policy Counsel Hannah Mercuris provided testimony on the need to end mandated reporting, the racial disparities embedded in the ways abuse and neglect allegations are reported and investigated, and OCFS’ continued lack of transparency about the SCR.

“Requiring that the SCR be transparent, consistent and discerning in preventing unnecessary investigations is the very minimum of what New York families are owed,” Mercuris said. Current practice, she added, leaves too many families suffering “unnecessary and unrelenting investigations, over and over again.”

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