Currently, this section requires the Department of Social Services to fund certain regional child assessment centers.
New language adds the center in Jefferson County.
The Division of Family Services shall immediately contact law enforcement upon receipt of a report of a suspected violation of certain criminal provisions targeting children. If the medical examiner or coroner determines that the child died from natural causes while under medical care, he or she shall notify the Division of the child's death and the child's attending physician shall sign the death certificate. In all other cases, the medical examiner or coroner shall immediately notify the Division of the child's death, and report the findings to the child fatality review panel. The local office of the Division must currently relay reports of certain crimes involving children to local law enforcement. This act adds possession of child pornography and the newly created crime of furnishing child pornography to a minor to the list.