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Confidential or
Discoverable?
Navigating the
Files of Child
and Youth
Services
Eric Hackwelder

A

t some point during your career as a criminal defense attorney you are bound to
encounter a situation where the criminal
charges that your client is facing will intersect
with an allegation of abuse investigated by the
children's services agency in your county. I, and
many others, have encountered this scenario in
Erie County and have been met with resistance
when seeking records from the applicable children's services agency.  In Erie County, the agency
is referred to as the Erie County Office of Children
and Youth (OCY). It is an all too common scenario

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that when a client is facing criminal charges
relating to abuse or neglect of a child, OCY has
also investigated the matter.  When facing a situation like this, the criminal practitioner needs to
be aware that the general rules of discovery in a
criminal case may not apply to obtaining crucial
information from the applicable children's service
agency. Obviously, certain information contained
within the children's services investigation could
be valuable to defending the criminal client. This
article covers the statutes and rules governing disclosure by children's service agencies, recent case



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