In re Lynette YY.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Broome County (Whiting Jr., J.H.O.), entered April 3, 2001, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 7, to adjudicate respondent to be a person in need of supervision.

Based upon respondent’s admission that she was habitually truant from school,* a Judicial Hearing Officer (hereinafter JHO) adjudicated her to be a person in need of supervision (hereinafter PINS) and placed her in the custody of the Broome County Commissioner of Social Services for 12 months, a period which has long since expired. On…