Suffolk County Social Services Commissioner John Imhof, who took over in May, said a number of the changes are aimed at strengthening the process of removing a…
The changes come in response to the 2020 death of 8-year-old Thomas Valva, whose police officer father forced him to sleep overnight on the concrete floor of a freezing garageOfficials on Long Island said they're making changes to child protective services in response to the 2020 death of an 8-year-old boy whose police officer father forced him to sleep overnight on the concrete floor of a freezing garage.
He said at a new conference in Hauppauge that child protective services officials are no longer given identifying information such as a parent’s occupation in cases where a child might be removed from a home.Imhof said the “blind removal” process, mandated by the state in 2020, is meant to eliminate the sort of biases that likely allowed Michael Valva, then a New York City police officer, to retain custody of his son despite nearly a dozen separate reports alleging abuse.
The efforts followed an April report from a special grand jury investigating the department’s handling of the case. The son, Thomas Valva, died in January 2020, the day after sleeping in the garage in the family’s Long Island home in temperatures that dropped under 20 degrees .
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