NMSA 32A-4-33.2. Creation and maintenance of dashboard on department
AI-assisted research summary: The department must maintain a public dashboard on its website, keep it updated at least quarterly, protect personal identifier confidentiality, submit an annual report to the governor and legislature by February 1, and publish that report on its website.
32A-4-33.2. Creation and maintenance of dashboard on department website; annual report. A. The department shall create and maintain a public, easily accessible and searchable dashboard on the department's website. The confidentiality of personal identifier information shall be safeguarded consistent with federal and state law. The dashboard shall be updated at least quarterly and shall include the data to be reported to the governor and the legislature. B. By February 1 of each year, the department shall submit a report to the governor and the legislature that includes the following data for the prior twelve months ending on December 31: (1) the number of fatalities and near fatalities of children in the custody of the department or as a result of abandonment, abuse or neglect when in the custody of a parent, guardian, custodian or other person; (2) the number of children in department custody and the average length of time in custody, including the number of in-state and out-of-state placements in which children are placed; (3) the number of children in foster care and the length of time in foster care or living with relatives or fictive kin; (4) the number of complaints received alleging abandonment, abuse or neglect; (5) the number of investigations that resulted from the complaints, the number of complaints accepted for investigation and not accepted for investigation and the identified reasons in the aggregate for not investigating a complaint; (6) the number of children removed from the custody of a parent, guardian, custodian or other person and the reasons for removals; (7) the number of children returned to a household from which they were removed; (8) the number of children placed in the custody of the department who have run away while in custody; (9) the number of cases in which families subject to court-ordered treatment plans or voluntary placement agreements have absconded with children placed in the custody of the department; (10) the number of adoptions and the number of adoptions for which funding was terminated prior to the child reaching the age of eighteen; (11) the number of children and cases transferred to the jurisdiction of Indian nations, tribes and pueblos pursuant to the Indian Family Protection Act [32A-28-1 to 32A-28-42 NMSA 1978]; and (12) any other information the department considers of interest to the public. C. Data shall be disaggregated by age, race, ethnicity, gender, disability status and geographic location. D. The report shall be published on the department's website. History: Laws 2025, ch. 156, § 13.