Our Issues
The Family Justice Law Center (FJLC) challenges the practices of the child welfare system that routinely, even casually, inflict illegal and horrific abuse on families caught up in its web. Across a broad range of issues, FJLC seeks to hold those who violate families’ rights accountable. Below are just a few areas in which we litigate.
Fourth Amendment Violations
Surveillance of Survivors of Domestic Violence
Removal Hearing Delays
All families, whether under government investigation or not, have the constitutional right to be safe and secure in their homes.
ACS’s highly intrusive tactics retraumatize survivors of domestic violence or abuse—aggravating these individuals’ emotional distress, undermining their sense of safety and control, disrupting their jobs, and perpetuating biases about survivors like them.
[Removal] Hearings took between one and six months, with many taking three or more months -The Bronx Defenders
School Retaliation
[Removal] Hearings took between one and six months, with many taking three or more months -The Bronx Defenders