§ 372. Records and reports. 1. Every court, and every public board,\ncommission, institution, or officer having powers or charged with duties\nin relation to abandoned, delinquent, destitute, neglected or dependent\nchildren who shall receive, accept or commit any child shall provide and\nkeep a record showing:\n (a) the full and true name of the child;\n (b) the child's sex and date and place of birth, if ascertainable, or\nthe child's apparent age;\n (c) the full and true names and places of birth of the child's\nparents, and such parents' actual residence if living, or such parents'\nlatest known residence, if deceased or whereabouts unknown and the name\nand actual residence of any other person having custody of the child, as\nnearly as the same can reasonably be ascertained;\n (d) the religious faith of the parents and of the child;\n (e) the name and address of any person, agency, institution or other\norganization to which the child is committed, placed out, boarded out,\nor otherwise given into care, custody or control;\n (f) the religious faith and occupation of the head or heads of the\nfamily with whom the child is placed out or boarded out and their\nrelationship, if any, to the child;\n (g) if any such child shall die, the date and cause of death and place\nof burial;\n (h) any further disposition or change in care, custody or control of\nthe child;\n (i) the date or dates of reception and of any subsequent disposition\nor change in care, custody or control and, in case of adoption, the name\nand title of the judge or surrogate making the order of adoption, the\ndate of such order and the date and place of filing of such order;\n (j) the reasons for any act performed in reference to such child\nherein required to be recorded, together with such further information\nas the department may require; and shall make to the department upon\nblanks provided by the department reports of each such child placed out,\nor boarded out, containing the information herein required to be kept;\nand shall furnish such information to any authorized agency to which any\nsuch child shall be committed or otherwise given into custody; and\n (k) if any such child shall have a developmental disability as defined\npursuant to subdivision twenty-two of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene\nlaw, and, if so, the type of such developmental disability.\n 2. Every charitable, eleemosynary, reformatory, or correctional\ninstitution, public or private, incorporated or unincorporated, and\nevery agency, association, corporation, institution, society or other\norganization which shall receive, accept, or admit any child whether or\nnot in receipt of payments from public funds for the support of such\nchild shall provide and keep a record as described in subdivision one,\nand also showing how, by whom and for what reason such child shall have\nbeen given into its custody or committed to it and shall make reports of\neach such child to the department upon blanks provided by the department\ngiving all the information required by subdivision one to be recorded\ntogether with such further information as the department may require.\nExcept as to children placed out, boarded out or surrendered or for whom\nguardianship is accepted or adoption provided, the requirement of this\nsection shall not apply to hospitals, day nurseries, eleemosynary day\nschools, and summer and vacation homes and camps, or to institutions for\nthe care of convalescent, anaemic, under-nourished or cardiac children,\npreventoria, working boys' homes, emergency shelters and schools for the\nblind and for the deaf, but all such hospitals, homes and institutions\nshall keep such records and make to the department such reports as the\ndepartment may require.\n 3. Such records maintained by the department or an authorized agency,\nincluding a local social services district, regarding such children are\nconfidential, provided, however, that such records are subject to the\nprovi
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