Prohibiting the department of homeless services from requiring a child’s presence in person at an intake facility when a family with children applies for shelter

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the department of homeless services from requiring a child’s presence in person at an intake facility when a family with children applies for shelter

This bill would prohibit the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) from requiring children to be present in person at an intake facility when their family applies or reapplies for placement at a shelter except when DHS requests to remotely view a child and is unable to do so within 24 hours, or when a child has not checked in to their assigned shelter by the shelter curfew on the day following placement.