Alex LL. v. Department of Social Services
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Peters, J.P.
This civil rights action stems from plaintiff’s half-decade *202struggle to gain custody of his son (born in 1995). According to plaintiff, from the time the child was taken into the custody of defendant Department of Social Services of Albany County (hereinafter DSS), DSS, through its caseworkers and supervisors, continuously imposed “frivolous and irrelevant” requirements in order for him to obtain custody of the child, such as drug assessments and screenings, antidrug education programs, mental health evaluations, preventive services and parenting classes, all…
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