§ 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.