Debra W. v. Johnson

Mercure, J.P.

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of respondent Commissioner of Children and Family Services which denied petitioner’s application to have a report maintained by respondent Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment amended to unfounded and expunged.

Petitioner obtained custody of her then 15-year-old niece (hereinafter the mother) and three-month-old grandniece (hereinafter the child) in March 2002, upon the death of petitioner’s sister. In November 2002, after…