(a) Local law enforcement shall provide the Department of Human Services with criminal background information on persons who have applied to be a provisional foster home, a regular foster home, or an adoptive home for the department upon request from the department.
(b) Local law enforcement shall provide the department with criminal background information on persons whose home is being studied by the department upon request from the department.
Structure Arkansas Code
Chapter 28 - Placement or Detention
Subchapter 1 - Children and Family Services
§ 9-28-101. Legislative intent and purpose
§ 9-28-102. Creation of the Division of Children and Family Services
§ 9-28-103. Division of Children and Family Services — Powers and duties
§ 9-28-104. Best interest of the child
§ 9-28-105. Preference to relative caregivers for a child in foster care
§ 9-28-106. Religious preference — Removal of barriers to inter-ethnic adoption
§ 9-28-107. Notice when juvenile transferred to custody of department
§ 9-28-108. Placement of juveniles — Definitions
§ 9-28-109. Notice of move in foster care placement
§ 9-28-110. Smoking in the presence of foster children
§ 9-28-111. Case plans — Definition
§ 9-28-112. Foster children and educational issues
§ 9-28-113. Continuity of educational services to foster children
§ 9-28-114. Foster youth transition
§ 9-28-115. Immunity — Definition
§ 9-28-116. Restrictions on foster and adoptive parents
§ 9-28-117. Authority to obtain local criminal background checks
§ 9-28-118. Training hours for employees
§ 9-28-119. Department of Human Services — Power to obtain information — Definitions
§ 9-28-120. Public disclosure of information on deaths and maltreatment