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Mandated Reporting
Who is a mandated reporter?
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Child care, daycare, or foster care workers
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Coroners
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Dentists and dental hygienists
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Domestic abuse advocates and domestic violence shelter employees or volunteers
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Employees of the Department of Human Services
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Employees working under contract for the Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services
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Foster parents
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Judges, law enforcement officials, peace officers, and prosecuting attorneys
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Licensed nurses, physicians, mental health professionals or paraprofessionals, surgeons, resident interns, osteopaths, and medical personnel who may be engaged in the admission, examination, care, or treatment of persons
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A full-time or part-time employee of a public school or private school, including, without limitation, the following:
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A school counselor, official, or teacher
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A coach or director of a public or private athletic organization, team, or club
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A coach or director of a public or private nonathletic organization, team, or club
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A person who is at least aged 21 and volunteers in a public school or private school as either of the following:
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As a coach or director of a public or private athletic organization, team, or club
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As a coach or director of a public or private nonathletic organization, team, or club
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A person employed as a school official in an institution of higher education
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Social workers and juvenile intake or probation officers
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Court-appointed special advocate program staff members or volunteers
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Attorneys ad litem
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Clergy members, which includes ministers, priests, rabbis, accredited Christian Science practitioners, or other similar functionaries of a religious organization
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Employees of a child advocacy center or a child safety center
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Sexual abuse advocates or volunteers who work with victims of sexual abuse
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Child abuse advocates or volunteers who work with child victims of abuse or maltreatment as employees of a community-based victim service or a mental health agency
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Victim/witness coordinators
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Victim assistance professionals or volunteers
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Employees of the Crimes Against Children Division of the Department of Arkansas State Police
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Employees or volunteers at reproductive health-care facilities
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An individual not otherwise identified in this subsection who is engaged in performing their employment duties with a nonprofit charitable organization other than a nonprofit hospital
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A child welfare ombudsman
Who can report?
Any person who has reasonable cause to suspect child maltreatment may report.
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An employer or supervisor of an employee identified as a mandated reporter shall not prohibit an employee or a volunteer from directly reporting child maltreatment to the child abuse hotline.
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An employer or supervisor of an employee identified as a mandated reporter shall not require an employee or a volunteer to obtain permission or notify any person, including an employee or a supervisor, before reporting child maltreatment to the child abuse hotline.
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Nothing in the reporting laws shall prohibit any person or institution from requiring an employee or volunteer who is a mandatory reporter to inform a representative of that person or institution that the reporter has made a report to the child abuse hotline.