Penalties for Failure to Report and False Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect

Discusses laws that impose penalties, in the form of either fines or jail time or both, on mandatory reporters who either fail to report cases of suspected child abuse and neglect or knowingly falsify reports of abuse and neglect.

 

https://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/report.cfm

Published in Children's Justice Act
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