Effective - 28 Aug 2018, 3 histories
210.482. Background checks for emergency placements, requirements, exceptions — cost, paid by whom. — 1. If the emergency placement of a child in a private home is necessary due to the unexpected absence of the child's parents, legal guardian, or custodian, the juvenile court or children's division:
(1) May request that a local or state law enforcement agency or juvenile officer, subject to any required federal authorization, immediately conduct a name-based criminal history record check to include full orders of protection and outstanding warrants of each person over the age of seventeen residing in the home by using the Missouri uniform law enforcement system (MULES) and the National Crime Information Center to access the Interstate Identification Index maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and
(2) Shall determine or, in the case of the juvenile court, shall request the division to determine whether any person over the age of seventeen years residing in the home is listed on the child abuse and neglect registry. For any children less than seventeen years of age residing in the home, the children's division shall inquire of the person with whom an emergency placement of a child will be made whether any children less than seventeen years of age residing in the home have ever been certified as an adult and convicted of or pled guilty or nolo contendere to any crime.
2. If a name-based search has been conducted pursuant to subsection 1 of this section, within fifteen calendar days after the emergency placement of the child in the private home, and if the private home has not previously been approved as a foster or adoptive home, all persons over the age of seventeen residing in the home and all children less than seventeen residing in the home who the division has determined have been certified as an adult for the commission of a crime shall report to a local law enforcement agency for the purpose of providing fingerprints and accompanying fees, pursuant to sections 43.530 and 43.540. Results of the checks shall be provided to the juvenile court or children's division office requesting such information. Any child placed in emergency placement in a private home shall be removed immediately if any person residing in the home fails to provide fingerprints after being requested to do so, unless the person refusing to provide fingerprints ceases to reside in the private home.
3. If the placement of a child is denied as a result of a name-based criminal history check and the denial is contested, all persons over the age of seventeen residing in the home and all children less than seventeen years of age residing in the home who the division has determined have been certified as an adult for the commission of a crime shall, within fifteen calendar days, submit to the juvenile court or the children's division fingerprints in the same manner described in subsection 2 of this section, accompanying fees, and written permission authorizing the juvenile court or the children's division to forward the fingerprints to the state criminal record repository for submission to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
4. No person who submits fingerprints under this section shall be required to submit additional fingerprints under this section or section 210.487 unless the original fingerprints retained by the division are lost or destroyed.
5. Subject to appropriation, the total cost of fingerprinting required by this section may be paid by the state, including reimbursement of persons incurring fingerprinting costs under this section.
6. For the purposes of this section, "emergency placement" refers to those limited instances when the juvenile court or children's division is placing a child in the home of private individuals, including neighbors, friends, or relatives, as a result of a sudden unavailability of the child's primary caretaker.
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(L. 2004 H.B. 1453 merged with S.B. 762, A.L. 2007 S.B. 84, A.L. 2013 S.B. 110, A.L. 2018 H.B. 1350)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XII - Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 210 - Child Protection and Reformation
Section 210.004 - Law enforcement agencies, record of custody of child.
Section 210.027 - Direct payment recipients, child care providers — department's duties.
Section 210.030 - Blood tests of pregnant women.
Section 210.040 - Blood test results — confidential.
Section 210.050 - Reporting required.
Section 210.060 - Noncompliance a misdemeanor — penalty.
Section 210.070 - Prophylactic eye drops at birth — objection to, when.
Section 210.080 - Report of infant eye inflammation, by whom.
Section 210.100 - Violation a misdemeanor.
Section 210.108 - Dominic James Memorial Foster Care Reform Act, statutes involved.
Section 210.110 - Definitions.
Section 210.113 - Accreditation goal, when to be achieved.
Section 210.114 - Qualified immunity for private contractor, when — exceptions.
Section 210.116 - Sharing of information with child welfare agencies and law enforcement, when.
Section 210.117 - Child not reunited with parents or placed in a home, when.
Section 210.120 - Medical institution staff members, duties of.
Section 210.127 - Diligent search for biological parents required, when.
Section 210.130 - Oral reports, when and where made — contents of reports.
Section 210.135 - Immunity from liability, when — exception — preliminary evaluation required, when.
Section 210.140 - Privileged communication not recognized, exception.
Section 210.150 - Confidentiality of reports and records, exceptions — violations, penalty.
Section 210.165 - Penalty for violation.
Section 210.166 - Medical neglect of child, who may bring action — procedure.
Section 210.171 - Definitions.
Section 210.172 - Powers and duties of board.
Section 210.180 - Division employees to be trained.
Section 210.183 - Alleged perpetrator to be provided written description of investigation process.
Section 210.188 - Report to general assembly and governor, contents.
Section 210.194 - Rules, guidelines and protocols — confidentiality requirements.
Section 210.201 - Definitions.
Section 210.203 - Complaints against child care facilities, open records to be kept by department.
Section 210.231 - Department of elementary and secondary education may delegate powers.
Section 210.241 - Judicial review.
Section 210.256 - Violations, penalties — injunction, procedure.
Section 210.257 - Rules, procedure to adopt.
Section 210.278 - Exempt from licensure, when.
Section 210.481 - Definitions.
Section 210.484 - Residential care facilities license required.
Section 210.496 - Refusal to issue, suspension or revocation of licenses — grounds.
Section 210.501 - Application for licensure, form, contents.
Section 210.506 - Rules, procedure — promulgation, persons to be consulted.
Section 210.516 - Exceptions to license requirement — division may not require documentation.
Section 210.521 - Assistance for division in licensure of foster homes.
Section 210.531 - Violations or false statements, penalty.
Section 210.537 - County foster parent associations may be established, duties of division.
Section 210.539 - State health insurance, foster parents may purchase, when.
Section 210.543 - Specialized foster parents, training, fiscal incentives.
Section 210.545 - Respite care facilities for foster families — rules and regulations — procedure.
Section 210.564 - Citation of law — foster care bill of rights.
Section 210.566 - Foster parents' bill of rights.
Section 210.570 - Text of compact.
Section 210.580 - Compact binding, when.
Section 210.590 - Courts and agencies to cooperate to promote purposes of compact.
Section 210.620 - Compact enacted, text of compact.
Section 210.620 - Compact enacted, text of compact.
Section 210.625 - Financial responsibility for child, how fixed.
Section 210.625 - Financial responsibility for child, how fixed.
Section 210.630 - Definitions — governor's appointment of administrator authorized.
Section 210.635 - Placement authority of courts, retention of jurisdiction.
Section 210.635 - Placement authority of courts, retention of jurisdiction.
Section 210.640 - Placements from nonparty states, procedure for.
Section 210.640 - Placements from nonparty states, procedure for.
Section 210.650 - Contingent effective date.
Section 210.652 - Electronic exchanging of data and documents.
Section 210.680 - Rulemaking authority.
Section 210.761 - Right to testify at foster care hearings, qualifications, limitation.
Section 210.762 - Family support team meetings to be held, when — who may attend — form to be used.
Section 210.764 - Certain case records available for review by parents or guardians.
Section 210.790 - Foster parent standing for court proceedings.
Section 210.817 - Definitions.
Section 210.818 - Relationship not dependent on marriage.
Section 210.819 - Parent and child relationship, how established.
Section 210.822 - Presumption of paternity — rebuttal of presumption, standard of proof.
Section 210.828 - Statute of limitations, exception — notification form required, when.
Section 210.829 - Jurisdiction, venue, severance — effect of failure to join action for necessaries.
Section 210.830 - Parties — guardian ad litem, when appointed.
Section 210.834 - Blood tests — expert defined.
Section 210.836 - Evidence relating to paternity.
Section 210.838 - Pretrial recommendation — actions, effect of party's refusal to accept.
Section 210.841 - Judgment or order, contents — amount of support, presumption.
Section 210.844 - Applicability of certain statutes.
Section 210.845 - Modification of decree, when — procedure, burden.
Section 210.846 - Hearings and records, confidentiality — inspection allowed, when.
Section 210.848 - Action to declare mother and child relationship.
Section 210.849 - Birth records.
Section 210.850 - Uniformity of application and construction.
Section 210.851 - Citation of law.
Section 210.852 - Application to actions commenced prior to effective date.
Section 210.853 - Parenting plan in paternity actions.
Section 210.875 - Children's services commission study, purpose.
Section 210.877 - Courts and agencies to provide information.
Section 210.900 - Definitions.
Section 210.903 - Family care safety registry and access line established, contents.
Section 210.912 - Right to appeal, procedure.
Section 210.915 - Departmental collaboration on registry information — rulemaking authority.
Section 210.918 - Toll-free telephone service maintained for access to information.
Section 210.922 - Use of registry information by certain departments, when.
Section 210.924 - Rulemaking authority.
Section 210.927 - Annual report, when, contents.
Section 210.936 - Registry information deemed public record.
Section 210.1030 - Task force created, members, duties — termination date.
Section 210.1210 - Policy recommendations.
Section 210.1250 - Citation of law.
Section 210.1253 - Definitions.
Section 210.1259 - Director of facility to provide notice — facility registration — inapplicability.
Section 210.1262 - Notification, filing, contents.
Section 210.1263 - Background checks required, when.
Section 210.1265 - Fire, safety, health, and sanitation inspections, facility to comply.
Section 210.1268 - Operation without proper notification, court injunction, when.
Section 210.1280 - Facility compliance list to be maintained, contents.
Section 210.1283 - Failure to complete a background check, penalty.