A bipartisan contingent of legislators from both houses spoke in favor of a bill that equates attacking a social worker or a prison guard with assault on a police officer. “We need to do what we need to do to protect the workers,” said Assemblywoman Barbara M. Clark, D-Queens. The bill, S.641-b/A.4672-b, sponsored by Sen. [...]
Continue reading about NY. Lawmakers to give more protection to prison guards and social workers
The Following is a verbatum copy of the letter from former OCFS employee Ed Ausborn. This letter is a response to a letter from B. Baccaglini to the times union about a new program called BLUE SKIES ( Placing NYC youth in their home for treatment instead of Upstate Facilities ). Juveniles Deserve Better I [...]
Continue reading about NY. What an OCFS insider has to say about OCFS’ Juvenile Policies
A Brooklyn school’s botched handling of a 5-year-old autistic student’s tantrum ended disastrously — with his mom and grandma in handcuffs and his great-grandmother’s rib broken, the family and their lawyers charge. New York City Schools have a strict hands off policy for teachers. So rather than schools handling the behavior, law enforcement is called [...]
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There were two separate incidents of resident being assaulted by a group of juveniles in West New York on Jan. 28. The first occurred at around 11:15 p.m. on 61st Street and Harrison Avenue when a 47-year-old man was allegedly hit in the face by a juvenile in the group, and then allegedly assaulted by [...]
Continue reading about NY. Two separate assaults by groups of juveniles in one night in Western NY
Yesterday a violent youth released from OCFS’ juvenile custody shot a NYC police officer in the back of the head critically wounding him. OCFS’ staff who have been repeatedly injured by these youth offenders and Civil Service Employees Association, are using this latest high profile crime in New York City as just another illustration of [...]
State Senator Joe Griffo has written a letter to Commissioner Gladys Carrion of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services to take immediate action on reports of multiple injuries of staff at Taberg Residential Center. Senator Griffo says he wants the Office of Children and Family Services to provide adequate staffing, proper [...]
The head of New York’s largest public employee union said workers in state juvenile detention facilities are literally taking a beating at the hands of youths assigned to their care. CSEA President Danny Donohue warned about increasingly dangerous conditions in the facilities, including one where 19 staff, including the facility director, have recently been victims [...]