Separation of powers precludes a court from ordering the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) to file a neglect petition, a Queens Family Court judge has said in an apparent case of first impression.
In so holding, Judge Stephen J. Bogacz denied a motion by a child’s law guardian that ACS, an agency of the executive branch of the government, be compelled to file a child neglect petition.
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