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ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE’S MARKING AN ADMINISTRATION OF CHILDREN’S SERVICES REPORT AS ‘INDICATED’ FOR MALTREATMENT OF PETITIONER’S CHILD HAD A RATIONAL BASIS AND SHOULD STAND, APPELLATE DIVISION REVERSED (CT APP).

The Court of Appeals, reversing the Appellate Division, over an extensive dissenting opinion, determined that the administrative law judge’s (ALJ’s) marking a NYC Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) report as “indicated” for maltreatment of petitioner’s (Natasha’s) child had a rational basis. Natasha had used her five-year-old child as a pawn in a shoplifting scheme. Natasha had an unblemished record and was pursuing a degree in early childhood education. The “indicated” designation will probably make it impossible for Natasha to find work in the childhood education field:

… [I]t was rational for the Administrative Law Judge to have concluded that the child was placed in imminent risk of impairment, constituting maltreatment … , and that petitioner’s actions are reasonably related to employment in the childcare field… ). The act in question — specifically, using the child as a pawn in a shoplifting scheme — “was sufficiently egregious so as to create an imminent risk of physical, mental[,] and emotional harm to the child” … . There is imminent potential for physical confrontation during a theft from a department store monitored by security. Moreover, … under the circumstances presented here, “utilizing a child to commit a crime and teaching a child that such behavior is acceptable must have an immediate impact on that child’s emotional and mental well-being,” particularly where, as here, the child is “young [and] just learning to differentiate between right and wrong” … . Likewise, the Administrative Law Judge rationally concluded that petitioner’s actions are reasonably related to employment in the childcare field “[a]s a matter of common sense” … . Matter of Natasha W. v New York State Off. of Children & Family Servs., 2018 NY Slip Op 04379, CtApp 6-14-18

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