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Independent Office of the Child Advocate

   Senate Bill 6877

   Assembly Bill 3233B

   Letter to Governor Paterson

   Children Studies Program at Brooklyn College

   ACLU Legislative Memorandum

New York Times article

City Limits article

Dear Human Rights Advocate

Please write your letter today and send it to Governor Paterson. Time is of the essence, tomorrow may be too late. If possible send also a copy to Loretta Chin from the Children's Studies Center of Brooklyn College who is organizating a coordinated effort to make sure that Governor Paterson signs this most important piece of legislation. Her email is:

"Loretta Chin" <Loretta@brooklyn.cuny.edu>.

This is a very important piece in our efforts to close the injustice gap in the present Child Welfare System. Thanks to the present lack of active support for parents by the present 18B Panel (Court Appointed attorneys for parents), parents have no change of getting justice in Family Court. A generous estimate is that parents win about 2 cases out of every 1000 in a 1028 Hearing in Family Court. Conveniently, the Office of Court Administration, keeps detailed tract of the 1021 to 1027 Hearings, skips 1028, and again tracks the 1029 Hearing. The curious thing is that except for 1028 Hearings, the other Hearings rarely occur.

The governor's email is: david.paterson@chamber.state.ny.us

or you can email him durectly from this page:

http://www.state.ny.us/governor/contact/GovernorContactForm.php

If you could please, also call and fax the governor:

Voice call: 1-518-474-8390

When you call they will ask you for the Bill number which is S6877/A3233B (Establishes the Independent Office of the Child Advocate), your name, name of your organization if you want to provide, and your zip code.

Fax: 1-518-474-1513

This is important since there is no time for snail mail to get on time.

If you do not have fax access handy, you could use FAXZERO which allows you 2 faxes for free from your computer. Here is the link: http://faxzero.com/

If you could send copies of your letter to the following people would also help:

Assemblywoman Barbara M. Clark

518-455-4711 voice

518-455-3740 fax

http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=033&sh=contact

Senator Kevin Parker

518-455-2580 voice
518-426-6843 fax

http://www.nysenate.gov/senator/kevin-s-parker/contact

Assemblyman William Scarborough

518-455-4451 voice

518-455-5522 fax

http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=029&sh=contact