Child Abuse Central Index.

Existing law designates certain individuals, such as teachers, peace officers, physicians, and clergy members, among others, as mandated reporters and requires them to report suspected child abuse or neglect to certain specified agencies whenever the mandated reporter, in his or her professional capacity or within the scope of his or her employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Existing law requires agencies receiving reports from mandated reporters to forward a report to the Department of Justice in writing of every case it investigates of known or suspected child abuse or severe neglect that is determined to be substantiated. Existing law requires the Department of Justice to act as a repository of reports of suspected child abuse and severe neglect to be maintained in the Child Abuse Central Index (CACI) . Existing law requires the removal of the listing of any person in the CACI who has reached 100 years of age. This bill would additionally require the removal, 10 years from the date of the incident resulting in the CACI listing, of any person listed in the CACI as of January 1, 2013, who was listed prior to reaching 18 years of age if the person is listed only once in the CACI with no subsequent listings. Existing law requires that only information from reports that are reported as substantiated shall be maintained in the CACI, and requires all other determinations to be removed from the central list. This bill would require the information to be deleted from the CACI 10 years from the date of the incident resulting in the CACI listing if a person listed in the CACI was under 18 years of age at the time of the report and if no subsequent report concerning the same person is received during the 10-year period. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 11170 of the Penal Code proposed by AB 1712, that would become operative only if AB 1712 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2013, and this bill is chaptered last.