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Who is required to report?

Citation: Rev. Stat. §§ 432B.220; 392.303

Mandatory reporters include the following:

  • Persons providing services licensed or certified in this State pursuant to, without limitation, hospitals, physicians and other medical personnel, psychologists, therapists, social workers, and counselors, as described in chapters 450B, 630, 630A, 631, 632, 633, 634, 634A, 635, 636, 637, 637B, 639, 640, 640A, 640B, 640C, 640D, 640E, 641, 641A, 641B, 641C, 641D or 653
  • Any personnel of a licensed medical facility engaged in the admission, examination, care, or treatment of persons or an administrator, manager, or other person in charge of the medical facility upon notification of suspected abuse or neglect of a child by a member of the staff of the medical facility
  • Coroners
  • Members of the clergy, Christian Science practitioners, or religious healers
  • Employees of public or private schools and any volunteers serving at such schools
  • Persons who maintain or are employed by facilities that provide care for children, children's camps, or other public or private facilities, institutions, or agencies furnishing care to children
  • Persons licensed to conduct foster homes
  • Officers or employees of law enforcement agencies or adult or juvenile probation officers
  • Except as otherwise provided below, attorneys
  • Persons who maintain, are employed by, or serve as volunteers for agencies or services that advise persons regarding abuse or neglect of a child and refer them to persons and agencies where their requests and needs can be met
  • Persons who are employed by or serve as volunteers for a youth shelter
  • Any adult person who is employed by an entity that provides organized activities for children, including, without limitation, any person who is employed by a school district or public school
  • Any person who is enrolled with the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy of the Department of Health and Human Services to provide doula services to recipients of Medicaid
  • A peer recovery support specialist, as defined in § 433.627, or peer recovery support specialist supervisor

In addition to the reporting required by § 432B.220, an employee of or volunteer for a public or private school must report to the child welfare agency or a law enforcement agency if they know or have reasonable cause to believe that a child has been subjected to either of the following:

  • Abuse, neglect, sexual conduct, or luring by another employee of or volunteer for a public or private school
  • Corporal punishment by another employee of or volunteer for a public or private school

When is a report required?

Citation: Rev. Stat. §§ 432B.220(1); 432B.230(1)

A mandated reporter who, in his or her professional or occupational capacity, knows or has reasonable cause to believe that a child has been abused or neglected shall make a report to an agency that provides child welfare services or to a law enforcement agency as soon as reasonably practicable but no later than 24 hours after the person knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the child has been abused or neglected.

A person may make a report by telephone or, in light of all the surrounding facts and circumstances that are known or that reasonably should be known to the person at the time, by any other means of oral, written, or electronic communication that a reasonable person would believe, under those facts and circumstances, is a reliable and swift means of communicating information to the person who receives the report. If the report is made orally, the person who receives the report must reduce it to writing as soon as reasonably practicable.

What information should the report include?

Citation: Rev. Stat. § 432B.230

Reports should contain, if obtainable and to the extent applicable:

  • The name, address, age and sex of the child and, if reported under the Additional School Mandatory Reporting Requirements, the school in which the child is enrolled
  • The name and address of the child’s parents or other person(s) responsible for his care
  • The nature and extent of the abuse or neglect, the effect of a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder or prenatal substance use disorder on the newborn infant, or the nature of the withdrawal symptoms resulting from prenatal substance exposure of the newborn infant
  • If reported under the Additional School Mandatory Reporting Requirements, the nature and extent of the sexual conduct, luring, or corporal punishment to the child
  • Any evidence of previously known or suspected abuse or neglect of the child or the child’s siblings, or effects of a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder or prenatal substance use disorder on, or evidence of withdrawal symptoms resulting from prenatal substance exposure of the newborn infant
  • The name, address, and relationship, if known, of the person alleged to have abused or neglected, and if reported under the Additional School Mandatory Reporting Requirements, engaged in sexual contact with, lured, or administered corporal punishment to the child
  • Any other information which DCFS or the applicable law enforcement agency considers necessary

Failure to report

Citation: Rev. Stat. § 432B.240

Any person who knowingly and willfully violates the provisions of § 432B.220 is guilty of one of the following:

  • For the first violation, a misdemeanor
  • For each subsequent violation, a gross misdemeanor