Source: http://www.opdv.ny.gov/law/summ_subject/cwcps.html
Timestamp: 2017-12-16 11:08:02
Document Index: 315212100

Matched Legal Cases: ['§422', '§413', '§835', '§424', '§422', '§413', '§423', '§642', '§422', '§677', '§384', '§34', '§422', '§421', '§440', '§115', '§ 22', '§112', '§12', '§1101', '§9', '§837', '§17', '§422', '§20', '§677', '§358', '§301', '§115']

Summary of New York State Domestic Violence and Related Laws by Subject (beginning from 1995) Child Welfare/Child Protective Services - NYS OPDV
Child Abuse/Multidisciplinary Teams (A.7858-E Destito/S.5482-E Griffo)
Signed: 2008 Chapter 574
Amends: Social Services Law §422
Mandated Reporters/Alcohol and Substance Abuse Professionals (A.10664 Ortiz/S.7536 Kruger)
Signed: 2008 Chapter 366
Amends: Social Services Law §413
Child Protective Services/Criminal History Records (A.4425-A Mayersohn/S.2978-A Robach)
Signed: 2008 Chapter 602
Amends: Executive Law §835
Social Services Law §424(6)
Differential Response in Child Protective Services Cases (A.6610-B Paulin/S.4009-B Rath)
Signed: 2007 Chapter 452
Amends: Social Services Law §§422(5-a); 427-a
Social Services Workers as Mandated Reporters(A.1693-A Tonko/S.849-A Farley)
Expands the duty of social services workers to report to the State Central Registry any case where there is reasonable cause to believe that a child has been abused or maltreated, based on personal knowledge facts, conditions or circumstances reported to them by third parties.
Signed: 2007 Chapter 513
Amends: Social Services Law §413(1)
Child Advocacy Centers (S.7644-B Meier/A.11188-A Scarborough)
Signed: 2006 Chapter 517
Amends: Social Services Law §§423(6); 423-a
Executive Law §642-a(1)
Child Fatality Review Teams Expanded (S.6703-B Spano/A.10023-B Paulin)
Expands the scope of local and regional fatality review teams to include the deaths of children for whom there is an open child protective or child preventive services case. Also allows a review team to expand its review to all unexplained or unexpected deaths of children under the age of 18. Requires any autopsy or toxicology report to be released within thirty days of a child’s death. Enlarges the composition of local and regional fatality review teams, provides access to records and subpoena power, provides review team members with immunity from civil and criminal liability, maintains confidentiality of information obtained by the teams, and provides for the sharing of any annual report or fatality report released by a review team.
Signed: 2006 Chapter 485
Amends: Social Services Law §§422-b; 418; 20(5)(a)
NY County Law §677(8)
Amends: Social Services Law §384-b(3)(1)(i) and (3)(1)(v)
Educational Neglect (S.8183 Meier/A.11571-A Scarborough)
Signed: 2006 Chapter 543
Amends: Social Services Law §34-a(8)
Child Protective Services Duties/Reporting (S.7042-A Meier/A.11854 Bradley)
Requires local child protective services (CPS) to refer reports of physical injury or sexual abuse of a child, or the death of a child, to appropriate local law enforcement. Investigations are to be conducted by an approved multi-disciplinary investigative team, or jointly with local law enforcement, where a county does not have an approved multidisciplinary team. Counties that have an approved protocol between CPS and local law enforcement on joint investigations of child abuse and maltreatment are exempt. Provides for cases where the report is made by a mandated reporter, within six months of two prior reports to the State Central Registry involving the same child, a sibling, other children in the household or the subject of the report. Requires the state central registry to transfer prior reports to local child protective services.
Signed: 2006 Chapter 494
Amends: Social Services Law §§422(2)(a); 424(5-a); 424(5-b)
Child Protective Services Qualifications/Training (S.7816-A Spano/A.11574-A Titus)
Signed: 2006 Chapter 525
Amends: Social Services Law §§421(4); 421(5)(b); 421(5)(c)
Child Protective Services Notification of Conviction (S.1626-A Lavalle/A.5058-A Mayersohn)
Signed: 2006 Chapter 647
Amends: Criminal Procedure Law §440.65
Mandated Reporter Records (A.7225-A Scarborough/S.5805 Meir)
Enacts substantial change to permanency and adoption provisions in several areas of law. Includes a provision that requires mandated reporters whose reports initiate an investigation of child abuse or maltreatment to comply with all Child Protective Service (CPS) requests for records relating to the report.*
*The Office of Children and Family Services clarified that this refers only to information that directly pertains to the report itself and that the mandated reporter to whom the request is directed makes the determination of what information is essential. If the report is based on information disclosed by a parent not alleged to be the subject and the mandated reporter (i.e., mental health therapist or domestic violence service provider) only has additional information concerning the non-offending parent, the provision would not apply. If CPS believes that the mandated reporter has additional essential information pertaining to the report, CPS must ask the mandated reporter for the additional records and attempt to come to agreement regarding any additional records. If CPS and the mandated reporter cannot come to agreement over the relevance of the report, CPS may seek a court order.
Signed: 2005 Chapter 3
Amends: Mandated reporter provision - November 21, 2005
Family Court Act §§115(c) (d); 249(a); 262(a)(i) and (iv); 301.2(15); 614(1)(d) and (e); 623; 625(a); 633; 712(g); 1012(j); 1012(k); 1016; 1017(1) (2); 1018; 1021; 1022(a) and (b); 1026(c); 1027(a) and (h); 1035(a) and (c); 1042; 1051(f)(i); 1055; 1055-a; 1058; 1062 - 1066; 1068; 10-A; 1112(a); 1115; 1118; 1120(a); 1121(1), (3), (5) and (7)
Social Services Law §§ 22(5)(f); 39(3) and (4); 358-a(2-a); 358-a(3)(a); (3)(b) and (3)(f); 358-a(7) and (8); 358-a(12); 378(3) and (4); 383-c(2); 383-c(3)(b); 383-c(5)(c)(ii); 383-c(5)(d)(iii)(B); 383-c(g); 383-c(6)(c); 383-c(10)(b); 384(2); 384(3)(ii); 384(5); 384(7); 84-a(1); 384-a(1-b); 384-a(2)(h)(iii)(a); 384-b(3)(a) and (3)(e); 384-b(3)(b) - 21 Misc. 3d 864 (2008); 384-b(4)(e); 384-b(7)(a); 384-b(8)(f) and 384-b(9); 409-e(1), (2) and (3); 415; 442(10)(c)(2)
Education Law §112(1) and (2)
Domestic Relations Law §12-b
Criminal Procedure Law §§1101(e); 5521(b)
Mental Hygiene Law §9.51(g)
Missing Child Response/Notification Plans (A.8312 Magnarelli/S.5470 Skelos)
Signed: 2005 Chapter 348
Amends: Executive Law §837-f(14)(c)
Domestic Violence/Child Protective Service Training (A.7763-A Weinstein/S.396-A Saland)
Requires all current and new child protective service workers to be trained on domestic violence issues. The training, to be developed by OPDV in conjunction with state Office of Children and Family Services, will address the dynamics of domestic violence and its connection to child abuse and neglect. Training will cover: psychological harm experienced by children, the trauma associated with foster care placement, barriers facing immigrant women, the child welfare and court systems' response to the abusing partner and remedies available to the victim.
Signed: 2002 Chapter 280
Effective: December 4, 2002
Amends: Social Services Law §17(g)
Unfounded Child Abuse Reports (A.1213-E Brodsky/S.1469-E Spano)
Signed: 2000 Chapter 555
Effective: November 1, 2000 – Applied to reports of child abuse and maltreatment made on or after February 12, 1996
Amends: Social Services Law §422(5)
Child Fatality Review Teams (A.8455-A Green/S.5689-A Saland)
This bill brings the state into compliance with the Federal Child Abuse Protection and Treatment Act amendments of 1996. Requires court-ordered child abuse investigations to be conducted by interagency, multi-disciplinary teams. Team members are required to develop written protocol for investigating cases and interviewing victims. Establishes local and regional fatality review teams, under the auspices of the state Office of Children and Family Services, to investigate the death of any child whose care has been transferred to an authorized agency or whose case has been reported to the child abuse State Central Registry. Establishes local citizen review panels to review the effectiveness of child protective investigations. Sets forth the authority of the panels and specifies information that must be reviewed and reported, including recommendations, to the legislature, the governor, the Office of Children and Family Services and local agencies.
Signed: 1999, Chapter 136
Amends: Social Services Law §§20(5)(a) and 20(5)(d); 371-b; 418; 422(4)(A)(v)(ii);422(5); 422-a(1)(d);422-b; 423(6)
NY County Law §677
Adoption and Safe Families Act (A.962-A Green/S.2346 Saland)
Conforms New York State law to the federal Adoption and Safe Families Act regarding foster care and adoption procedures, timetables, etc. Includes two provisions for domestic violence cases: 1) courts must consider the presence of domestic violence in the home when determining if the need to place a child would be eliminated by an order of protection removing the abuser from the home, and 2) requires the Office of Children and Family Services to study the extent to which domestic violence victims have their children removed as a result of the abuser's conduct.
Signed: 1999 Chapter 7
Effective: February 11, 1999
Amends: Social Services Law §§358-a(1); 358-a(2)(a); 358-a(3)(a); 358-a(3)(b) and (c); 358-a(4); 358-a(12); 378-a; 384-a(2)(c); 384-b(1); 384-b(3)(1); 384-b(4)(e); 384-b(7)(a); 384-b(8); 384-b(12); 392(1) – (6), (8), and (9); 392(5-a); 392(6-a); 409-a(10); 409-e(5)
Family Court Act §§301.2(15) and (16); 352.2(2)(c) and (d); 355.5; 712(g) and (h); 741-a; 754(2); 756(b); 756-a(b) – (e); 1012(e), (j) and (k); 1031(f); 1033-b(1); 1039-b; 1040; 1046(b); 1051(e) and (f)(ii); 1052(b)(i)(A) and (ii); 1055(b)(i) – (vi); 1055-a(3)(c); 1055-a(4); 1055-a(6)(a)
Domestic Relations Law §115-d(3-a)