The city’s embattled child-welfare agency would have to cough up critical records to state probers so they could finally properly probe tragic cases involving kids, according to a newly passed Albany bill.
The tentative legislation, which Gov. Kathy Hochul has until the end of the year to approve or veto, would clear “significant” roadblocks to justice by allowing the state Department of Investigation access to previously withheld records from the Administration from Children’s Services.
“The state law has really prevented us from fully being able to provide the oversight that DOI provides to every other city agency,” DOI Commissioner Nadia Shihata told The Post in an interview
The watchdog department said state laws, as well as “burdensome” delays from the state own Office of Children’s and Family Services, prevented it from conducting investigations into 17 of 18 child fatalities last year in which there was previous ACS involvement, according to a blistering report published last month…