Former Admin. L. Judge argues for due process RTC in abuse registry cases
In a recent law review article, Tiffany Brewer, a former Administrative Law Judge in New Jersey, argues that parents should have a right to counsel for hearings to determine whether they are placed on the abuse/neglect registry. The article describes the serious consequences of being placed on the registry and cites the L.O. decision from the NJ Court of Appeals (a case the NCCRC assisted), which found that such proceedings involve a “consequence of magnitude” that entitles parents to appointed counsel. See Tiffany Williams Brewer, The Not-So-Obvious and Inconvenient Truth: Reexamining a Right to Counsel for Parents and Children in Abuse and Neglect Administrative Proceedings, 35 Widener Commonwealth L. Rev. 215 (2025) (arguing that Gideon v. Wainwright should be expanded to administrative proceedings involving parents facing inclusion on state child abuse and neglect registries).
