United States — Arizona
ARS § 8-548.06
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State courts, departments, agencies, and officers must enforce the compact and take appropriate actions to carry out its purposes within their jurisdiction.
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United States — Arizona
ARS § 8-550.01
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The director must administer the child abuse prevention fund and use it for the article’s stated purposes.
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ARS § 8-801
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This section defines terms used in this article and related articles, including child safety services, child safety worker, DCS information, in-home intervention, and relative.
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ARS § 8-802
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Child safety workers must have fingerprint clearance cards, certify criminal-history information, follow child-interview consent rules, and meet training and coordination duties. Children may not stay in temporary custody more than 72 hours unless a dependency petition is filed.
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ARS § 8-803
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A child safety worker must give a family or employee notice about an investigation, their response rights, and related court and complaint options, and must document the notice and responses.
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ARS § 8-804
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The department must keep a central child abuse and neglect registry, limit how it uses registry information, and run background checks for listed licensing and employment-related purposes.
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ARS § 8-804.01
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The department must keep child abuse and neglect reports and related records in its case management system and may use them only for the listed purposes, with a narrow background-check exception.
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ARS § 8-804.02
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The department must adopt rules for a tiered central registry system for child abuse and neglect cases, including review, tier length limits, early removal procedures, and later conforming all registry entries.
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ARS § 8-804.03
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The department must provide specified DCS and central registry information to the board of fingerprinting when required for determining central registry exceptions.
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ARS § 8-805
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People who complain, provide information, or otherwise participate in the program are generally immune from civil or criminal liability, unless they acted with malice or are suspected of child abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
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ARS § 8-806
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This section sets rules for voluntary placement of a child, including consent, time limits, notice, case planning, and department duties.
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ARS § 8-807
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This section sets when DCS information must be disclosed, when it may be disclosed, who may access it, and who must keep it confidential.
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ARS § 8-807.01
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The department must promptly provide public DCS information for fatality or near-fatality child abuse, abandonment, or neglect cases, with limited exceptions, and must issue a public summary report within 90 days.
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ARS § 8-808
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The administrative office of the supreme court must run a parent assistance program, open offices in qualifying counties, provide a 24-hour hotline statewide, keep and publish current call statistics, and give parents or guardians written notice of program services.
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ARS § 8-809
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The department must post parents’ rights and related child-removal information on its website, add a conspicuous home-page link, and publish final rules within 10 days after filing them with the secretary of state.
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ARS § 8-809.01
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This section gives parents, guardians, or custodians certain rights during child safety investigations and custody matters, and requires the department to explain those rights.
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ARS § 8-810
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The department must take fast steps to notify law enforcement and others, report the child, keep searching, train staff, and provide regular reports when a child in its care is missing, abducted, or runaway.
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ARS § 8-811
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This section sets notice, hearing, review, disclosure, and record-redaction rules for child abuse or neglect substantiation proceedings.
Act or statute Open & ChatUnited States — Arizona
ARS § 8-811; Version 2
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This section requires the department to notify an accused person, describe certain hearing rights, and follow set timelines for notice, review, referral, and hearing handling.
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ARS § 8-812
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A child welfare agency must get a nonoperating identification license for a dependent child placed with it, or a photograph if the child does not qualify.
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