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Proposed legislation to compel ACS-DOI collaboration

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Council Member Brannan inquires about a bill in Albany that would compel ACS to work with the Department of Investigation (DOI). Commissioner Dannhauser explains that ACS already works closely with DOI but highlights legal restrictions on sharing information about unfounded cases.

Current state law prohibits disclosure of unfounded cases to DOI
The proposed legislation would require a change in law to allow sharing of unfounded case information
ACS already provides information on critical incidents in juvenile justice and child welfare systems to DOI

Justin L. Brannan

1:35:21

Commissioner, with regards to there's a bill in Albany that looks to compel ACS to work with DOI.

1:35:31

Is that something that would be better done voluntarily by ACS rather than having Albany compel ACS to do that?

Jess Dannhauser

1:35:39

So we work very closely with DOI.

1:35:42

We provide information on critical incidents across our juvenile justice and child welfare system.

1:35:48

A component of the bill is looking at whether unfounded cases ought to be given to DOI.

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And so there is, on unfounded cases, state law prohibits the disclosure of those cases.

1:36:10

It has certain categories of, obviously OCFS oversees us, they do reviews of us very closely after any critical incident.

1:36:19

In addition, the DA's office can get information if they're doing a prosecution.

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On unfounded, DOI is not listed as one of the entities that can get that, So it actually requires a law change.

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It's not something that we could do voluntarily under the current law.

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