The city Department of Investigation (DOI) released a report on Tuesday calling for changes to state laws that it said significantly limit its ability to oversee New York City’s child welfare system — including more than a dozen cases in which youngsters had died.
The report said that the current laws block many of the agency’s attempts to access certain City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) records, preventing comprehensive investigations that may reveal systemic and policy failures, corruption or inefficiencies.
