File #: Int 1717-2019    Version: Name: Information regarding demographic information of parents and children at each step in the child welfare system and a plan to address racial and income disparities.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on General Welfare
On agenda: 9/25/2019
Enactment date: 11/21/2021 Law number: 2021/132
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to information regarding demographic information of parents and children at each step in the child welfare system and a plan to address racial and income disparities
Sponsors: Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Stephen T. Levin, Margaret S. Chin, Vanessa L. Gibson, Diana I. Ayala, Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., Brad S. Lander, Justin L. Brannan, Antonio Reynoso, Adrienne E. Adams, Darma V. Diaz, Helen K. Rosenthal, Ben Kallos, Farah N. Louis, Eric Dinowitz, Inez D. Barron
Council Member Sponsors: 16
Summary: This bill would require the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) to report on various demographic information including race, ethnicity, gender, community district, and primary language of parents and children at every step of the child welfare system and to create a plan to address any disparities identifies as a result of such reporting.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1717-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1717, 3. Int. No. 1717, 4. September 25, 2019 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-25-19, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 25, 2019, 7. Committee Report 10/31/19, 8. Hearing Testimony 10/31/19, 9. Hearing Transcript 10/31/19, 10. Proposed Int. No 1717-A - 10/14/21, 11. Committee Report 10/21/21, 12. Hearing Transcript 10/21/21, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 14. October 21, 2021 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-21-21, 16. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - October 21, 2021, 17. Int. No. 1717-A (FINAL), 18. Fiscal Impact Statement, 19. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 20. Local Law 132
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11/22/2021AAlicka Ampry-Samuel City Council Returned Unsigned by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/21/2021AAlicka Ampry-Samuel Administration City Charter Rule Adopted  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021AAlicka Ampry-Samuel City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021AAlicka Ampry-Samuel City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021*Alicka Ampry-Samuel Committee on General Welfare Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021*Alicka Ampry-Samuel Committee on General Welfare Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021*Alicka Ampry-Samuel Committee on General Welfare Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021AAlicka Ampry-Samuel Committee on General Welfare Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
10/31/2019*Alicka Ampry-Samuel Committee on General Welfare Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/31/2019*Alicka Ampry-Samuel Committee on General Welfare Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/25/2019*Alicka Ampry-Samuel City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/25/2019*Alicka Ampry-Samuel City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1717-A

 

By Council Members Ampry-Samuel, Levin, Chin, Gibson, Ayala, Cornegy, Lander, Brannan, Reynoso, Adams, D. Diaz, Rosenthal, Kallos, Louis, Dinowitz and Barron

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to information regarding demographic information of parents and children at each step in the child welfare system and a plan to address racial and income disparities

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 9 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 21-919 to read as follows:

§ 21-919 Demographic reporting and plan to address disparities. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Demographic information. The term “demographic information” means race or ethnicity, gender, community district, primary language, and any other category ACS deems relevant.

Step in the child welfare system. The term “step in child welfare system” includes, but is not limited to, when a report is accepted by the state central register and triggers an investigation, when an ACS investigation results in a case being determined indicated, when an ACS investigation results in a case being unfounded, when a case is handled by ACS in a non-investigatory manner; when a child is removed from their residence or the custody of their parent or primary caretaker on an emergency basis pursuant to section 1024 of the family court act, when a child is removed from their residence or the custody of their parent or primary caretaker pursuant to section 1027 of the family court act, when ACS files a child protective proceeding in family court pursuant to article 10 of the family court act, when ACS opens a preventive services case, and any other instance that ACS deems relevant.

b. Beginning September 1, 2022, and annually on September 1 thereafter, ACS shall submit to the mayor and speaker of the council and post on its website demographic information of parents and children at each step in the child welfare system. Such report shall include, but need not be limited to:

1. The total number of parents at each step in the child welfare system, disaggregated by demographic information; and

2. The total number of children at each step in the child welfare system, disaggregated by demographic information.

c. ACS shall address any disparate outcomes identified based on demographic information reported pursuant to subdivision b of this section in equity assessments required pursuant to subchapter 6 of chapter 1 of title 3 of the administrative code of the city of New York.

                     d. No information that is otherwise required to be collected and reported pursuant to this section shall be collected and reported in a manner that would violate any applicable provision of federal, state or local law relating to the privacy of information or that would interfere with law enforcement investigations or otherwise conflict with the interests of law enforcement.                     

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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