Illinois Compiled Statutes 325 Children: Article -
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 1
This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. (Source: P.A. 79-65.)
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 2
(a) The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services shall, upon receiving reports made under this Act, protect the health, safety, and best interests of...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 2.1
Any person or family seeking assistance in meeting child care responsibilities may use the services and facilities established by this Act which may assist...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 3
As used in this Act unless the context otherwise requires: "Adult resident" means any person between 18 and 22 years of age who resides in...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 4
Persons required to report; privileged communications; transmitting false report. Any physician, resident, intern, hospital, hospital administrator and personnel engaged in examination, care and treatment of...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 4.02
Any physician who willfully fails to report suspected child abuse or neglect as required by this Act shall be referred to the Illinois State...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 4.1
Any person required to report under this Act who has reasonable cause to suspect that a child has died as a result of abuse...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 4.2
Departmental report on death or serious life-threatening injury of child. (a) In the case of the death or serious life-threatening injury of a child whose...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 4.3
DCFS duty to report. The Department shall report the disappearance of any child under its custody or guardianship to the local law enforcement agency working...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 4.4
DCFS duty to report to State's Attorney. Whenever the Department receives, by means of its statewide toll-free telephone number established under Section 7.6 for the...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 4.4a
Department of Children and Family Services duty to report to Department of Human Services' Office of Inspector General. Whenever the Department receives, by means of...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 4.5
Electronic and information technology workers; reporting child pornography. (a) In this Section: "Child pornography" means child pornography as described in Section 11-20.1 of the Criminal...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 5
An officer of a local law enforcement agency, designated employee of the Department, or a physician treating a child may take or retain temporary...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 6
Any person required to investigate cases of suspected child abuse or neglect may take or cause to be taken, at Department expense, color photographs...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7
Time and manner of making reports. All reports of suspected child abuse or neglect made under this Act shall be made immediately by telephone to...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.1
(a) To the fullest extent feasible, the Department shall cooperate with and shall seek the cooperation and involvement of all appropriate public and private...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.2
The Department shall establish a Child Protective Service Unit within each geographic region as designated by the Director of the Department. The Child Protective...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.3
(a) The Department shall be the sole agency responsible for receiving and investigating reports of child abuse or neglect made under this Act, including reports...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.3a
The Director of the Department shall appoint a Perinatal Coordinator who shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches with...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.3b
All persons required to report under Section 4 may refer to the Department of Human Services any pregnant person in this State who is...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.3c
Substance abuse services for women with children. The Department of Human Services and the Department of Children and Family Services shall develop a community...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.4
(a) The Department shall be capable of receiving reports of suspected child abuse or neglect 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Whenever the...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.5
If the Child Protective Service Unit is denied reasonable access to a child by the parents or other persons and it deems that the...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.6
There shall be a single State-wide, toll-free telephone number established and maintained by the Department which all persons, whether or not mandated by law, may...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.7
There shall be a central register of all cases of suspected child abuse or neglect reported and maintained by the Department under this Act. Through...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.8
Upon receiving an oral or written report of suspected child abuse or neglect, the Department shall immediately notify, either orally or electronically, the Child Protective...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.9
The Department shall prepare, print, and distribute initial, preliminary, and final reporting forms to each Child Protective Service Unit. Initial written reports from the...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.10
Upon the receipt of each oral report made under this Act, the Child Protective Service Unit shall immediately transmit a copy thereof to the state...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.12
The Child Protective Service Unit shall determine, within 60 days, whether the report is "indicated" or "unfounded" and report it forthwith to the central register;...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.13
The reports made under this Act may contain such additional information in the furtherance of the purposes of this Act as the Department, by...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.14
All reports in the central register shall be classified in one of three categories: "indicated", "unfounded" or "undetermined", as the case may be. Prior to...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.15
The central register may contain such other information which the Department determines to be in furtherance of the purposes of this Act. Pursuant to...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.16
For any investigation or appeal initiated on or after, or pending on July 1, 1998, the following time frames shall apply. Within 60 days after...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.17
To the fullest extent possible, written notice of any amendment, expunction, or removal of any record made under this Act shall be served upon...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.18
Pursuant to Sections 7.15 and 7.16 and for good cause shown, the Child Protective Service Unit may amend any report previously sent to the...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.19
Upon request, a subject of a report shall be entitled to receive a copy of all information contained in the central register pertaining to...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.20
Inter-agency agreements for information. The Department shall enter into an inter-agency agreement with the Secretary of State to establish a procedure by which employees of...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.21
Multidisciplinary Review Committee. (a) The Department may establish multidisciplinary review committees in each region of the State to assure that mandated reporters have the ability...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 7.22
Reviews of unfounded reports. (a) Whenever the Department determines that a reported incident of child abuse or neglect will be "unfounded", the Department shall forward...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 8.1
If the Child Protective Service Unit determines after investigating a report that there is no credible evidence that a child is abused or neglected, it...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 8.2
If the Child Protective Service Unit determines, following an investigation made pursuant to Section 7.4 of this Act, that there is credible evidence that the...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 8.2a
Developmental and social-emotional screening; indicated finding of abuse or neglect. The Department shall conduct a developmental and social-emotional screening within 45 days after the Department...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 8.3
The Department shall assist a Circuit Court during all stages of the court proceeding in accordance with the purposes of this Act and the...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 8.4
The Department shall provide or arrange for and monitor, as authorized by this Act, rehabilitative services for children and their families on a voluntary...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 8.5
The Child Protective Service Unit shall maintain a local child abuse and neglect index of all cases reported under this Act which will enable it...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 8.6
Reports to a child's school. Within 10 days after completing an investigation of alleged physical or sexual abuse under this Act, if the report...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 9
Any person, institution or agency, under this Act, participating in good faith in the making of a report or referral, or in the investigation of...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 9.1
Employer discrimination. No employer shall discharge, demote or suspend, or threaten to discharge, demote or suspend, or in any manner discriminate against any employee who...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 10
Any person who makes a report or who investigates a report under this Act shall testify fully in any judicial proceeding or administrative hearing resulting...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 11
All records concerning reports of child abuse and neglect or records concerning referrals under this Act and all records generated as a result of such...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 11.1
Access to records. (a) A person shall have access to the records described in Section 11 only in furtherance of purposes directly connected with the...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 11.1a
Disclosure of information. (a) The Director or a person designated in writing by the Director for this purpose may disclose information regarding the abuse...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 11.2
Disclosure to mandated reporting source. A mandated reporting source as provided in Section 4 of this Act may receive appropriate information about the findings...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 11.2a
Disclosure to extended family member. Upon request, an extended family member interviewed for relevant information in the course of an investigation by the Child...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 11.3
A person given access to the names or other information identifying the subjects of the report, except the subject of the report, shall not...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 11.4
Nothing in this Act affects existing policies or procedures concerning the status of court and criminal justice system records. (Source: P.A. 81-1077.)
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 11.5
Within the appropriation available, the Department shall conduct a continuing education and training program for State and local staff, persons and officials required to...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 11.6
All final administrative decisions of the Department under this Act are subject to judicial review under the Administrative Review Law, as now or hereafter amended,...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 11.7
(a) The Director shall appoint the chairperson and members of a "State-wide Citizen's Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect" to consult with and advise...
- Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. - 325 ILCS 5, Section 11.8
Cross-reporting. (a) Investigation Specialists, Intact Family Specialists, and Placement Specialists employed by the Department of Children and Family Services who reasonably believe that an animal...
Last modified: February 18, 2015