126 Misc. 2d 624 - K. v. K.’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Significantly, the Legislature provided that unfounded reports of child abuse be expunged, not sealed. The two words are not synonymous. “The word ‘expunge’ is described as a term expressive of cancellation or deletion, implying not a legal act, but a physical annihilation.” (35 CJS Expunge, at 343). On the other hand, when a record is sealed it is merely segregated to ensure its confidentiality to the extent specified in the controlling statute. Therefore, since the records now sought are considered to have been destroyed, they are no longer available to the parties for their use in the instant action. Nor may the defendant father attempt to recreate the records by deposing the Society’s investigator, inasmuch as that would constitute an impermissible circumvention of the express purpose of the statute.”

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