Smith v. Perales

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review a determination of the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services, dated January 30, 1992, which, after a hearing, denied the petitioner’s application to expunge his name from the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment.

Adjudged that the petition is granted, on the law, with costs, the determination is annulled, and the petitioner’s name is expunged from the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment.

Upon determining that there was "some credible evidence” supporting a report of child…