The two questions reporters covering child welfare in NYC should always ask
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Police officers and child welfare caseworkers were ordering a woman to open her front door. This clause is included in a law commonly known as “Elisa’s Law,” after Elisa Izquierdo, a child known-to-the-system who died in 1995. The nature of this supervision varies, but in New York, the state runs the child abuse “hotline.”
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