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§ 12-18-402. Mandated reporters - (a) An individual listed as a mandated reporter under subsection...
Subchapter 5 - Notice Procedures After a Report of Suspected Child Maltreatment Has Been Made
§ 12-18-501. Notice of a report to the Child Abuse Hotline - Notice of a report to the Child Abuse Hotline is...
§ 12-18-502. Release and disclosure of data generally - (a) (1) The Department of Human Services and the Department...
§ 12-18-503. Notification generally - The Department of Human Services and the Department of Arkansas...
§ 12-18-504. Notification in cases of reports of severe maltreatment - (a) The Department of Human Services and the Department of...
§ 12-18-505. Notification to the child's school - The Department of Human Services shall notify the child's school...
§ 12-18-506. Notice when the alleged offender works with children, the elderly, an individual with a disability, an individual with a mental illness, is engaged in child-related activities, or is a juvenile - (a) If the Child Abuse Hotline receives a report naming...
§ 12-18-507. Notice when the alleged victim is a resident of a facility licensed, registered, or operated by the state - (a) If the Child Abuse Hotline receives a report that...
§ 12-18-508. Notice to United States military organizations of alleged child maltreatment — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Active duty service...
Subchapter 6 - Investigative Proceedings
§ 12-18-601. Assignment to investigative agency - (a) (1) If a report of child maltreatment is accepted...
§ 12-18-602. Initiation of the investigation - (a) The Department of Human Services and the Division of...
§ 12-18-603. Accompaniment by law enforcement - Upon request, law enforcement shall accompany a person conducting an...
§ 12-18-604. Services during the investigation - The Department of Human Services may make referrals or provide...
§ 12-18-605. Investigative interviews - (a) An investigation of child maltreatment or suspected child maltreatment...
§ 12-18-606. When the alleged offender is a family member, a fictive kin, or lives in the home with the alleged victim - If the alleged offender is a family member, fictive kin,...
§ 12-18-607. When the alleged offender is neither a family member nor a fictive kin and not living in the home with the alleged victim - If the alleged offender is not a family member living...
§ 12-18-608. Interview of the alleged child victim, siblings of a child victim, or any other children in the home or under the care of an alleged offender - (a) A person conducting an interview with a child victim,...
§ 12-18-609. Right to enter for the purposes of the investigation - (a) A person conducting an investigation under this chapter shall...
§ 12-18-610. Access to the child's school records - (a) A person conducting an investigation under this chapter shall...
§ 12-18-611. Inspection of personnel and volunteer records - A person conducting an investigation required by this chapter shall...
§ 12-18-612. Criminal background check - (a) The person conducting an investigation under this chapter shall...
§ 12-18-613. Access to miscellaneous records - Upon request by a person conducting an investigation under this...
§ 12-18-614. Submission to a physical exam or other testing - An investigation under this chapter may include a physical examination,...
§ 12-18-615. Radiology procedures, photographs, electronic media, and medical records - (a) A person who is required to make a report...
§ 12-18-616. Timing - (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, an...
§ 12-18-617. Authority to pursue other remedies - (a) Notwithstanding an investigative determination finding of true but exempted,...
§ 12-18-618. Religious bias prohibited - The Department of Human Services and the Department of Arkansas...
§ 12-18-619. Closing investigations - (a) If at any time before or during an investigation...
§ 12-18-620. Release of information on pending investigation - (a) Information on a pending investigation under this chapter is...
§ 12-18-621. Right to obtain records during course of the investigation - (a) Upon a request by a person conducting an investigation...
§ 12-18-622. Access to the controlled substance database - (a) The Department of Human Services and the Department of...
Subchapter 7 - Investigative Findings
§ 12-18-701. Generally - (a) The agency responsible for an investigation under this chapter...
§ 12-18-702. Investigative determination - (a) Upon completion of an investigation under this chapter, the...
§ 12-18-703. Notice generally - (a) The Department of Human Services and the Department of...
§ 12-18-704. Notice if the investigative determination is true but exempted and the alleged offender is a child - If the investigative determination of the report was determined true...
§ 12-18-705. Notice if the alleged offender is at least fourteen years of age and less than eighteen years of age - (a) If the report was determined true and the alleged...
§ 12-18-706. Notice if the alleged offender is eighteen years of age or older - Notification to an alleged offender who was eighteen (18) years...
§ 12-18-707. Notice when the alleged offender works with children, the elderly, an individual with a disability, or an individual with a mental illness, is engaged in child-related activities, or is a juvenile - (a) If the child maltreatment investigative determination names as an...
§ 12-18-708. Miscellaneous notice requirements - (a) The Department of Human Services and the Department of...
§ 12-18-709. Confidentiality - (a) Notice of an investigative determination under this chapter is...
§ 12-18-710. Release of information on true investigative determination pending due process - (a) Information on a completed true investigation pending due process...
§ 12-18-711. Fee for copying investigative file - (a) Except as provided under subsection (b) of this section,...
§ 12-18-712. Mental health services for alleged sex offenders under eighteen years of age and the victim - (a) If an investigative determination of a report under this...
§ 12-18-713. Reports on overturned true determinations - (a) (1) The Department of Human Services and the Division...
Subchapter 8 - Administrative Hearings
§ 12-18-801. Time to complete administrative hearing - (a) (1) (A) The administrative hearing under this chapter shall...
§ 12-18-802. Subpoenas — Service upon a child - If any child served with a subpoena to be a...
§ 12-18-803. Privileged communications as evidence — Exception - (a) It is the public policy of the State of...
§ 12-18-804. Defenses and affirmative defenses - For any act or omission of child maltreatment that would...
§ 12-18-805. Video teleconferencing and teleconferencing options - (a) (1) An administrative law judge may conduct an administrative...
§ 12-18-806. Continuances - (a) (1) An administrative law judge shall grant a continuance...
§ 12-18-807. Administrative judgments and adjudications - (a) If a court of competent jurisdiction adjudicates a question...
§ 12-18-808. Notice of juvenile division circuit court proceedings - (a) The Department of Human Services and the Department of...
§ 12-18-809. Confidentiality - (a) An administrative hearing decision and the hearing record, including...
§ 12-18-810. Authority to amend investigative determinations based on evidence - (a) An administrative law judge may amend an investigative determination...
§ 12-18-811. Expedited administrative hearings — Definition - (a) (1) If an alleged offender timely requests an administrative...
§ 12-18-812. Preliminary administrative hearing - (a) If the Department of Human Services and the Division...
§ 12-18-813. Notice of investigative determination upon satisfaction of due process - (a) (1) Due process has been satisfied when: (A) The...
§ 12-18-814. Automatic hearings for juveniles - (a) The Division of Children and Family Services of the...
§ 12-18-815. Adjudication of allegations and risk - (a) In an administrative hearing held under this chapter, an...
Subchapter 9 - Child Maltreatment Central Registry
§ 12-18-901. Creation - There is established within the Department of Human Services a...
§ 12-18-902. Contents - The Child Maltreatment Central Registry shall contain records of cases...
§ 12-18-903. Placement in the Child Maltreatment Central Registry - (a) An offender's name shall be placed in the Child...
§ 12-18-904. Child Maltreatment Central Registry generally - An offender's name shall remain in the Child Maltreatment Central...
§ 12-18-905. Provisional placement in the Child Maltreatment Central Registry - If an alleged offender's name is provisionally placed in the...
§ 12-18-906. Allegations determined to be unsubstantiated not to be included - Records of all cases in which allegations are determined to...
§ 12-18-907. Rules - The Department of Human Services may adopt rules as may...
§ 12-18-908. Removal of name from the Child Maltreatment Central Registry - (a) If an adult offender is found guilty of, pleads...
§ 12-18-909. Availability of true reports of child maltreatment from the central registry - (a) True reports of child maltreatment are confidential and may...
§ 12-18-910. Availability of screened-out and unsubstantiated reports - (a) Screened-out, administratively closed, and unsubstantiated reports of child maltreatment...
§ 12-18-911. Records — Subpoena duces tecum — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Custodian of records”...
Subchapter 10 - Protective Custody
§ 12-18-1001. Protective custody generally - (a) A police officer, law enforcement, a juvenile division of...
§ 12-18-1002. Placement in a foster home - A county sheriff or chief of police may place a...
§ 12-18-1003. Consent for health care and services - An individual taking a child into custody may give effective...
§ 12-18-1004. Notice when custody is invoked - In any case in which custody is invoked under this...
§ 12-18-1005. Location - (a) A school, residential facility, hospital, or similar institution where...
§ 12-18-1006. Custody of children generally — Health and safety of the child - (a) (1) During the course of any child maltreatment investigation,...
§ 12-18-1007. Services to families generally - (a) The Department of Human Services shall have the authority...
§ 12-18-1008. Removal from home — Procedure - (a) If the Department of Human Services determines that custody...
§ 12-18-1009. When the investigation determines that the child can safely remain at home - If an investigation under this chapter determines that a child...
§ 12-18-1010. When a child maltreatment investigation is determined to be true or true but exempted - (a) If an investigation under this chapter is determined to...
§ 12-18-1011. When a report of child maltreatment is determined to be unsubstantiated - (a) If the report of child maltreatment is unsubstantiated, the...
Subchapter 11 - Public Disclosure of Information on Fatalities and Near Fatalities
§ 12-18-1101. Procedure if the investigation is pending on a fatality - Upon request, the Department of Human Services shall release the...
§ 12-18-1102. Procedure if the investigation results in a true report related to a fatality - Upon request, the Department of Human Services shall release the...
§ 12-18-1103. Procedure if the investigation results in an unsubstantiated report related to a fatality - Upon request, the Department of Human Services shall release the...
§ 12-18-1104. Information not to be released regarding a child fatality - Concerning the fatality of a child, the Department of Human...
§ 12-18-1105. Procedure if the investigation is pending related to a near fatality - Upon request, the Department of Human Services shall release the...
§ 12-18-1106. Procedure if the investigation results in a true report related to a near fatality - Upon request, the Department of Human Services shall release the...
§ 12-18-1107. Procedure if the investigation results in an unsubstantiated report related to a near fatality - Upon request, the Department of Human Services shall release the...
§ 12-18-1108. Information not to be released regarding the near fatality of a child - Concerning the near fatality of a child, the Department of...
Subchapter 12 - Training Regarding Sexually Exploited Children
§ 12-18-1201. Definition - As used in this subchapter, “sexually exploited child” means a...
§ 12-18-1202. Training regarding sexually exploited children - The Arkansas Juvenile Officers Association, the Division of Law Enforcement...
Chapter 19 - Human Trafficking — Prevention and Law Enforcement
§ 12-19-101. State Task Force for the Prevention of Human Trafficking - (a) (1) The Attorney General may establish a State Task...
§ 12-19-102. Posting information about the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline - (a) The following establishments shall post in a conspicuous place...
§ 12-19-103. Development of a state protocol for assistance - The Department of Human Services shall develop a state protocol...
§ 12-19-104. Law enforcement agency nonimmigrant visa certification - (a) Each law enforcement agency shall adopt a policy for...
§ 12-19-105. Training and educational materials on human trafficking - (a) The Department of Education and the Department of Human...
Chapter 20 - Law Enforcement Agencies for Private Colleges and Universities
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 12-20-101. Definitions - As used in this chapter: (1) “Control” means that a...
§ 12-20-102. Applicability — Cumulative effect - (a) This chapter applies to the property of each private...
§ 12-20-103. Enforcement - The prosecuting attorney or the city attorney, as may be...
Subchapter 2 - Law Enforcement Officers
§ 12-20-201. Appointment and removal of private college or university law enforcement officers - (a) An executive head of a private college or university...
§ 12-20-202. Private college or university law enforcement officer's duties and powers — Definition - (a) A private college or university law enforcement officer's primary...
§ 12-20-203. Records kept by a private college or university law enforcement agency - Records generated or kept by a private college or university...
Subchapter 3 - Motor Vehicle Regulation
§ 12-20-301. Rules and regulations for motor vehicles on private college or university grounds - (a) (1) Each private college or university may promulgate and...