Gov. Kathy Hochul

After a month of budget delays, New York lawmakers have agreed to significant investments in working poor households.

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed significant new benefits for millions of the state’s low-income families with children.

Two other new laws will assist 21-year-olds leaving foster care and identify needs of kids in the system living with a developmental disability.

Since police in Rochester, New York pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old girl in 2021, the city and state have seen reforms in police use of force when it comes to children.

A New York bill would ensure that adoptive parents don’t continue to receive payments after their children have been returned to foster care.

In New York, legislation that would have dialed back CPS intervention in families' lives failed to pass this legislative season, despite years of advocacy.

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.

A New York Assemblymember, former adoptee and co-author of the Preserving Family Bonds Act, has announced her plan to leave office.

The Preserving Family Bonds Act would have allowed a judge to determine whether biological parents could resume contact with adopted children, and the type of contact that would be permitted.