NY Judges Voice Worry Over ‘Rogue’ Foster Program in Dissent (2)

A New York state appellate panel on Thursday narrowly backed a state foster care program that allows children to temporarily be placed with a host family, but not without strong opposition from two dissenting justices.

The New York State Office of Children and Family Services established the program with no “legitimate legislative authority and guidance,” New York Supreme Court Third Appellate Department Justice Stan Pritzker wrote in his dissent.

The agency, he said, has taken away due process rights for children as they have “no counsel, no permanency hearings, no judicial oversight at all and are trapped in an administrative ...