Citation: Ann. Code § 12-18-402
The following individuals are mandated reporters:
- Child care, daycare, or foster care workers
- Coroners
- Dentists and dental hygienists
- Domestic abuse advocates and domestic violence shelter employees or volunteers
- Employees of the Department of Human Services
- Employees working under contract for the Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Services
- Foster parents
- Judges, law enforcement officials, peace officers, and prosecuting attorneys
- 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
A full-time or part-time employee of a public school or private school, including, without limitation, the following:
- A school counselor, official, or teacher
- A coach or director of a public or private athletic organization, team, or club
- A coach or director of a public or private nonathletic organization, team, or club
- A person who is at least 21 and volunteers in a public school or private school as either of the following:
- As a coach or director of a public or private athletic organization, team, or club
- As a coach or director of a public or private nonathletic organization, team, or club
- A person employed as a school official in an institution of higher education
- Social workers and juvenile intake or probation officers
- Court-appointed special advocate program staff members or volunteers
Attorneys ad litem - Clergy members, which include ministers, priests, rabbis, accredited Christian Science practitioners, or other similar functionaries of a religious organization
- Employees of a child advocacy center or a child safety center
- Sexual abuse advocates or volunteers who work with victims of sexual abuse
- 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
- Victim/witness coordinators
- Victim assistance professionals or volunteers
- Employees of the Crimes Against Children Division of the Department of Arkansas State Police
- Employees or volunteers at reproductive health-care facilities
- 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
- A child welfare ombudsman