California Penal Code ARTICLE 2.5 - Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act

• Section 11164.
  (a) This article shall be known and may be cited as the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act.(b) The intent and purpose of this article is to...
• Section 11165.
  As used in this article “child” means a person under the age of 18 years.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1459, Sec. 2.)
• Section 11165.1.
  As used in this article, “sexual abuse” means sexual assault or sexual exploitation as defined by the following:(a) “Sexual assault” means conduct in violation of one...
• Section 11165.2.
  As used in this article, “neglect” means the negligent treatment or the maltreatment of a child by a person responsible for the child’s welfare under...
• Section 11165.3.
  As used in this article, “the willful harming or injuring of a child or the endangering of the person or health of a child,” means...
• Section 11165.4.
  As used in this article, “unlawful corporal punishment or injury” means a situation where any person willfully inflicts upon any child any cruel or inhuman...
• Section 11165.5.
  As used in this article, the term “abuse or neglect in out-of-home care” includes physical injury or death inflicted upon a child by another person...
• Section 11165.6.
  As used in this article, the term “child abuse or neglect” includes physical injury or death inflicted by other than accidental means upon a child...
• Section 11165.7.
  (a) As used in this article, “mandated reporter” is defined as any of the following:(1) A teacher.(2) An instructional aide.(3) A teacher’s aide or teacher’s assistant employed by a...
• Section 11165.9.
  Reports of suspected child abuse or neglect shall be made by mandated reporters, or in the case of reports pursuant to Section 11166.05, may be...
• Section 11165.11.
  As used in this article, “licensing agency” means the State Department of Social Services office responsible for the licensing and enforcement of the California Community...
• Section 11165.12.
  As used in this article, the following definitions shall control:(a) “Unfounded report” means a report that is determined by the investigator who conducted the investigation to...
• Section 11165.13.
  For purposes of this article, a positive toxicology screen at the time of the delivery of an infant is not in and of itself a...
• Section 11165.14.
  The appropriate local law enforcement agency shall investigate a child abuse complaint filed by a parent or guardian of a pupil with a school or...
• Section 11165.15.
  For the purposes of this article, the fact that a child is homeless or is classified as an unaccompanied youth, as defined in Section 11434a...
• Section 11166.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), and in Section 11166.05, a mandated reporter shall make a report to an agency specified in Section 11165.9 whenever...
• Section 11166.01.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any supervisor or administrator who violates paragraph (1) of subdivision (i) of Section 11166 shall be punished by not...
• Section 11166.02.
  (a) A county welfare agency, as determined in Section 10612.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, may develop a pilot program for Internet-based reporting of child...
• Section 11166.05.
  Any mandated reporter who has knowledge of or who reasonably suspects that a child is suffering serious emotional damage or is at a substantial risk...
• Section 11166.1.
  (a) When an agency receives a report pursuant to Section 11166 that contains either of the following, it shall, within 24 hours, notify the licensing office...
• Section 11166.2.
  In addition to the reports required under Section 11166, any agency specified in Section 11165.9 shall immediately or as soon as practically possible report by...
• Section 11166.3.
  (a) The Legislature intends that in each county the law enforcement agencies and the county welfare or probation department shall develop and implement cooperative arrangements in...
• Section 11166.5.
  (a) (1) On and after January 1, 1985, any mandated reporter as specified in Section 11165.7, with the exception of child visitation monitors, prior to commencing his...
• Section 11167.
  (a) Reports of suspected child abuse or neglect pursuant to Section 11166 or Section 11166.05 shall include the name, business address, and telephone number of the...
• Section 11167.5.
  (a) The reports required by Sections 11166 and 11166.2, or authorized by Section 11166.05, and child abuse or neglect investigative reports that result in a summary...
• Section 11168.
  The written reports required by Section 11166 shall be submitted on forms adopted by the Department of Justice after consultation with representatives of the various...
• Section 11169.
  (a) An agency specified in Section 11165.9 shall forward to the Department of Justice a report in writing of every case it investigates of known or...
• Section 11170.
  (a) (1) The Department of Justice shall maintain an index of all reports of child abuse and severe neglect submitted pursuant to Section 11169. The index shall...
• Section 11170.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 11170, the Department of Justice shall make available to a licensed adoption agency, as defined in Section...
• Section 11171.
  (a) (1) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that adequate protection of victims of child physical abuse or neglect has been hampered by the lack of consistent...
• Section 11171.2.
  (a) A physician and surgeon or dentist or their agents and by their direction may take skeletal X-rays of the child without the consent of the...
• Section 11171.5.
  (a) If a peace officer, in the course of an investigation of child abuse or neglect, has reasonable cause to believe that the child has been...
• Section 11172.
  (a) No mandated reporter shall be civilly or criminally liable for any report required or authorized by this article, and this immunity shall apply even if...
• Section 11174.
  The Department of Justice, in cooperation with the State Department of Social Services, shall prescribe by regulation guidelines for the investigation of abuse in out-of-home...
• Section 11174.1.
  (a) The Department of Justice, in cooperation with the State Department of Social Services, shall prescribe by regulation guidelines for the investigation of child abuse or...
• Section 11174.3.
  (a) Whenever a representative of a government agency investigating suspected child abuse or neglect or the State Department of Social Services deems it necessary, a suspected...

Last modified: October 22, 2018