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1/8/2024
Adilia Watson
Under a new law in New York, the records of young people who have faced family court for minor misbehavior will be expunged at age 21.
7/13/2022
Madison Hunt and Adilia Watson
Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, who presides over New York's courts, announced her resignation early this week.
7/5/2022
Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech
New York lawmakers have agreed to add six judges to the Family Court bench along with 14 new Supreme Court justices spread across the state.
2/22/2022
Megan Conn
New York's Chief Judge Janet DiFiore recently called for a simplified court structure and higher pay for attorneys who represent children and low-income adults.
4/16/2021
Megan Conn and Michael Fitzgerald
A quote from the novelist James Baldwin inside New York County Family Court in lower Manhattan. Credit: Hiram Alejandro Durán A Manhattan Family Court clerk has been suspended without pay pending an investigation into allegations she used a racial slur describing a Black 15-year-old in a court hearing Thursday.
11/26/2019
Michael Fitzgerald
A statehouse hearing on child welfare last week began with Brooklyn Assembly member Latrice Walker (D) comparing the Trump administration’s family separation policies at the nation’s border to New York’s foster care practices.
