These rule changes add clarifying language for the roles and responsibilities for the Florida Abuse Hotline Command Center staff when assessing reports of alleged child abuse, neglect, or abandonment and for child protective investigators when conducting child protective investigations. Additional language, revisions, and deletions will include action necessary to implement provisions of the law and the safety decision making methodology as follows: Information to be gathered by the Hotline from a reporter which aligns with the new safety decision making methodology. Assessing and how to handle situations when children are in present danger and immediate safety actions are required, assessing for if long-term safety actions are required, and when to bring an unsafe child into protective custody. Deletes duplicate language already in Part III of Chapter 39, Florida Statutes, as well as Sections 39.201, 39.401, 39.402, and 39.407, Florida Statutes. Aligns terminology with the reorganization of the Department from Districts to Circuits and Zones to Regions.