“The young people enduring these conditions are overwhelmingly low-income and from communities of color. Their suffering is not inevitable, and the City has immediate options it could act on today…
“These rates of over-investigation are state-sanctioned family policing. Even where investigations are warranted and allegations are substantiated, the investigative process is often coercive and traumatic, indelibly harming the children the…
“Attorneys are being forced to resign not because they want to leave, but because they cannot provide for their own families if they stay. Offices that were once inundated with…
