2015 New York Laws
SOS - Social Services
Article 6 - CHILDREN
Title 6 - (411 - 428) CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
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.