Squad 2

Squad 2 oversees City agencies that provide social services to New Yorkers, including the Department of Social Services, which includes the Human Resources Administration (HRA), and the Department of Homeless Services (DHS). Squad 2 also oversees the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), which includes the Division of Youth and Family Justice (DYFJ). The Squad ensures that agencies fulfill their mandate to provide assistance to the City’s most vulnerable New Yorkers, by engaging in data-driven analysis to identify public corruption leading to public assistance fraud, and enhancing those investigations through data science, including the theft of food and cash assistance benefits by an HRA employee who stole the identities of over 100 public assistance recipients; and by examining the agencies’ processes used to deliver services, including analyzing the placement of the City’s homeless families with children in hotels. The squad also investigates and issues reports on misconduct or operational failings involving employees of the Administration for Children’s Services that in past cases, have led to the deaths of children under ACS' care and other serious abuse or neglect cases.

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Squad 2 Reports

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• Review of ACS' Systemic Safety Accountability Mechanisms for Foster Care Providers

• Corruption in the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program at the Human Resources Administration

• Investigation into ACS's Response to Child Abuse and Neglect Allegations Involving Jaden Jordan

• ACS Policy and Practice Violations Identified in Three Child Welfare Cases

• Inadequate Oversight by the Administration for Children's Services

• Employee Fraud and Program Vulnerabilities at the New York City Human Resources Administration

• Probe of Department of Homeless Services' Shelters for Families with Children Finds Serious Deficiencies