Fire Jess Dannhauser New Yorks ACS enables abuse in pursuit of equity

Jess Dannhauser, head of New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services, is putting “racial justice” over the welfare of children — and blood is on his hands. He tried to deny it in City Council testimony Thursday after a searing Post exposé blew up him and the agency he runs over enabling the most horrific abuse imaginable. Dannhauser has instituted policies that are utter disaster for the children his agency is tasked with protecting.This month, an anonymous ACS whistleblower gave up the ugly truth about Dannhauser’s beloved family-led, non-investigative Collaborative Assessment, Response, Engagement & Support program. The whistleblower says that before CARES — the acronym itself is an inversion of reality — all reports of abuse or mistreatment were investigated by trained pros. Now a desk jockey reads a written report, per the whistleblower, and decides whether the kid is at low or high risk. Then, in “low risk” cases, the ACS supplies a staffer to merely make recommendations and referrals with zero power to enforce them as the parents lead the proceedings.  Even when the parents or caretakers are the alleged abusers or active drug addicts. It’s Kafkaesque.And some 70% of ACS cases get diverted to this farce.

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Never miss a story.It’s all done in the name of increasing “racial equity,” because the investigations are disproportionately made into minority families. Yes: The agency that allows hideous tragedies like the death of 10-year-old special-needs kid Brian Santiago, who starved to death after his mother overdosed, is deeply concerned with equity. Brian had been taken from his mom once by ACS but was returned even with allegations of neglect and drug use.Even w...