Any privilege between husband and wife or between any professional person and his or her clients, except lawyer and client, including, but not limited to, physicians, members of the clergy, counselors, hospitals, clinics, rest homes, and nursing homes shall not constitute grounds for excluding evidence at any proceeding regarding an endangered person or an impaired person, or the cause of the proceeding.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs
Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs
Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations
Subchapter 17 - Adult and Long-Term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Act
§ 12-12-1704. Spiritual treatment alone not abusive
§ 12-12-1705. Privilege not grounds for exclusion of evidence
§ 12-12-1707. Adult and long-term care facility resident maltreatment hotline
§ 12-12-1708. Persons required to report adult or long-term care facility resident maltreatment
§ 12-12-1709. Report of death caused by maltreatment
§ 12-12-1710. Investigation by Department of Human Services
§ 12-12-1711. Procedures for investigation by the Department of Human Services
§ 12-12-1712. Photographs and X-rays
§ 12-12-1713. Immunity for investigation participants
§ 12-12-1714. Investigative powers of the Department of Human Services
§ 12-12-1716. Adult and Long-term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Central Registry
§ 12-12-1718. Availability of screened-out, pending, and unfounded reports
§ 12-12-1719. Delegation of authority
§ 12-12-1721. Reports as evidence
§ 12-12-1722. Services available on investigative finding of founded or unfounded