Suffolk’s Department of Social Services is redacting identifying information from reports used to consider the removal of a child from a home, a process county officials said eliminates the type of “biased decision-making” that kept 8-year-old Thomas Valva in the custody of his police officer father before his death. Suffolk Social Services Commissioner John Imhof said under the new “blind removal” process implemented in the spring, Child Protective Services decision makers are no longer made aware of a parent’s occupation, the names of family members or their ethnic and religious backgrounds in cases when there is a possibility a child will be removed. Read more on this story at the link in our bio. - - #longisland #longislandny #liny #longislandnewyork #suffolkcountyny #suffolkcounty #centermoriches #centermorichesny #cps #childprotection #childprotectiveservices #valva #thomasvalva #linkinbio