Martin MM. v. New York State Office of Children

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 which denied petitioner’s application to have a report maintained by the Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment amended to be unfounded and expunged.

A report was received in September 2006 of domestic violence perpetrated by petitioner upon his wife in the presence of their children (born in 1995 and 2000). The report was indicated for maltreatment of the children following an investigation by Suffolk County Child…