Summary


The amendments accomplish the following: 1) Require the child protective investigator to provide professional mandatory reporters with his/her contact information within a specified timeframe and advise the reporter that he/she may provide a written summary of their concerns which shall become part of the child’s case file; 2) Require all household members residing in the maltreating caregiver’s home and not identified in the original intake to be added to the investigation within a specified timeframe; and 3) Require the child protective investigator to report suspected animal cruelty to the local animal control agency.