N.Y. Social Services Law § 426: Annual reports

§ 426. Annual reports. The commissioner shall prepare for inclusion in

the annual report required by subdivision (d) of section seventeen of

this chapter to be filed with the governor and the legislature prior to

December fifteenth of each year, a report on the operations of the state

central register of child abuse and maltreatment and the various local

child protective services. The report shall include a full statistical

analysis of the reports made to the central register together with a

report on the implementation of this title, his or her evaluation of

services offered under this chapter and his or her recommendations for

additional legislation to fulfill the purposes of this title. Such

report shall indicate the number of child abuse and maltreatment reports

and cases received by the statewide central register of child abuse and

maltreatment by each district in the preceding year, the number of such

cases determined to have been indicated and the number of such cases

determined to be unfounded by each district in the preceding year, the

number of such cases which have not been indicated or unfounded within

the time period required by subdivision seven of section four hundred

twenty-four of this article by each district in the preceding year and

the number of workers assigned to the child protective service in each

district in the preceding year. Such report shall include, among other

information, available demographic information and available information

concerning the racial and ethnic characteristics of the family members

and persons served by the differential response program pursuant to

section four hundred twenty-seven-a of the social services law, as well

as available information concerning the racial and ethnic

characteristics of the family members and persons serviced under the

traditional child protective services program, in each local social

services district in the state.