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AR Code § 12-12-1605 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 16 - Criminal History for Volunteers Act|§ 12-12-1605. Registration by volunteer organization

 (a) A volunteer organization desiring to obtain criminal background check information on volunteers shall register with the Department of Arkansas State Police.  (b) The department may promulgate rules regarding registration with the department to obtain criminal background check information.  (c) If the volunteer organization desires to receive criminal background check information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the volunteer organization shall include a copy of the minutes from its most recent board meeting that lists offenses that the volunteer organization considers to disqualify an applicant to volunteer from serving as a volunteer with the volunteer organization.
AR Code § 12-12-1606 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 16 - Criminal History for Volunteers Act|§ 12-12-1606. Request for criminal background check

 (a)  (1) Any volunteer organization registered to obtain criminal background check information from the Arkansas Crime Information Center or the Federal Bureau of Investigation concerning volunteers may apply to the Identification Bureau of the Department of Arkansas State Police for the purpose of obtaining criminal history information regarding any individual currently acting as a volunteer with the volunteer organization or desiring to act as a volunteer with the volunteer organization.  (2) The request form submitted by the volunteer organization shall include:  (A) The name of the volunteer organization;  (B) The identifying information of the individual for whom the background check is sought; and  (C) A signed authorization form executed by the volunteer authorizing the Identification Bureau of the Department of Arkansas State Police to release criminal history information.      (b) The request form shall be subject to inspection by the Department of Arkansas State Police.  (c) The volunteer organization shall retain a copy of the criminal background check request for a period of at least three (3) years from the date of the request.
AR Code § 12-12-1607 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 16 - Criminal History for Volunteers Act|§ 12-12-1607. Background checks

 (a)  (1) Upon receipt of a proper request from a volunteer organization, the Identification Bureau of the Department of Arkansas State Police shall conduct a background check through the Arkansas Crime Information Center.  (2)  (A) The Identification Bureau of the Department of Arkansas State Police shall provide the information obtained from the Arkansas background check to the volunteer organization.  (B) The information shall include:  (i) All pending Arkansas felony arrests;  (ii) All Arkansas criminal convictions; and  (iii) Whether the individual is a registered sex offender or required to register as a sex offender.        (b)  (1) Upon the completion of the Arkansas background check, the volunteer organization may request through the Identification Bureau of the Department of Arkansas State Police a national criminal background check through the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  (2) The volunteer organization shall not be required to submit an additional application for the state and national criminal background check through the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  (3) The national background check shall comply with federal standards in effect as of January 1, 2005, including, but not limited to, standards concerning the requirement of the submission of the fingerprints of the volunteer.  (4) The Identification Bureau of the Department of Arkansas State Police shall not release the Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history report to the volunteer organization but shall review the report and the criteria provided by the volunteer organization in its registration to obtain criminal background check information on volunteers and notify the volunteer organization whether the volunteer meets the qualifications for serving as a volunteer with the organization.    (c) A volunteer organization shall consider all information received in response to a request for criminal background information confidential.
AR Code § 12-12-1608 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 16 - Criminal History for Volunteers Act|§ 12-12-1608. Penalty

 The following acts are a Class A misdemeanor:   (1) Knowingly releasing or disclosing criminal history information to any unauthorized volunteer organization or person; or  (2) Obtaining criminal history information for a purpose not authorized by this subchapter.
AR Code § 12-12-1609 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 16 - Criminal History for Volunteers Act|§ 12-12-1609. Fees

 (a)  (1) The Department of Arkansas State Police may charge a fee for providing criminal history background checks under this subchapter.  (2) The amount of the fee for a criminal history background check conducted through the Arkansas Crime Information Center shall be determined jointly by the department and the center and shall not exceed twenty dollars ($20.00), exclusive of any third-party electronic processing fee charges.  (3) The amount of the fee for a criminal history background check performed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall not exceed the amount determined by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.    (b) Fees collected pursuant to this subchapter shall be credited as follows:  (1) Fifty percent (50%) to the Crime Information System Fund; and  (2) Fifty percent (50%) to the State Police Equipment Fund, to be used for the continued operation and expansion of the automated criminal history system and the automated fingerprint identification system.
AR Code § 12-12-1610 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 16 - Criminal History for Volunteers Act|§ 12-12-1610. Extent of disclosure

 (a) The Department of Arkansas State Police and the Arkansas Crime Information Center shall disseminate criminal history information to the extent entries have been made at the time of the request for the information.  (b) Any event, activity, or any portion of the criminal history information that has not been processed by the department or the center shall not be required to be included in the dissemination.  (c) A request for information, supporting documents, and any response to a request for criminal background check information under this subchapter shall not be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act of 1967, § 25-19-101 et seq.
AR Code § 12-12-1701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 17 - Adult and Long-Term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Act|§ 12-12-1701. Title

 This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Adult and Long-Term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Act”.
AR Code § 12-12-1702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 17 - Adult and Long-Term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Act|§ 12-12-1702. Purpose

 The purpose of this subchapter is to:   (1) Provide a system for the reporting of known or suspected adult and long-term care facility resident maltreatment;  (2) Ensure the screening, safety assessment, and prompt investigation of reports of known or suspected adult and long-term care facility resident maltreatment;  (3) Provide for a civil action, if appropriate, to protect maltreated adults and long-term care facility residents; and  (4) Encourage the cooperation of state law enforcement officials, courts, and state agencies in the investigation and assessment of maltreated adults and long-term care facility residents, and prosecution of offenders.
AR Code § 12-12-1704 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 17 - Adult and Long-Term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Act|§ 12-12-1704. Spiritual treatment alone not abusive

 Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to mean that an endangered person or an impaired person who is being furnished with treatment by spiritual means alone through prayer in accordance with the tenets and practices of a recognized church or religious denomination by an accredited practitioner of the church or religious denomination is for that reason alone an endangered person or an impaired person.
AR Code § 12-12-1705 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 17 - Adult and Long-Term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Act|§ 12-12-1705. Privilege not grounds for exclusion of evidence

 Any privilege between husband and wife or between any professional person and his or her clients, except lawyer and client, including, but not limited to, physicians, members of the clergy, counselors, hospitals, clinics, rest homes, and nursing homes shall not constitute grounds for excluding evidence at any proceeding regarding an endangered person or an impaired person, or the cause of the proceeding.
AR Code § 12-12-1706 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 17 - Adult and Long-Term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Act|§ 12-12-1706. Civil penalties

 (a)  (1) The State of Arkansas and the Attorney General may institute a civil action against any long-term care facility caregiver necessary to enforce any provision of this subchapter.  (2) Notwithstanding any criminal penalties assessed, any caregiver against whom any civil judgment is entered as the result of a civil action brought by the State of Arkansas through the Attorney General on a complaint alleging that caregiver to have abused, neglected, or exploited an endangered person or an impaired person in a long-term care facility certified under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq., as it existed on January 1, 2005, shall be subject to pay a civil penalty:  (A) Not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for each violation judicially found to have occurred; or  (B) Not to exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the death of a long-term care facility resident that results from a single violation.    (3)  (A) The Attorney General shall not be precluded from recovering civil penalties under subdivision (a)(2)(A) of this section for the death of a person that results from multiple violations.  (B) However, the Attorney General may not recover civil penalties under both subdivisions (a)(2)(A) and (B) of this section.      (b) In any action brought under this section, the Attorney General shall be required to prove all essential elements of the cause of action, including damages, by a preponderance of the evidence.  (c) Any civil penalty under subdivision (a)(2) of this section shall be paid into the State Treasury and credited to the Arkansas Medicaid Program Trust Fund.  (d) Any caregiver against whom any civil judgment is entered as the result of a civil action under this section by the Attorney General shall be required to pay to the Attorney General all reasonable expenses that the court determines have been necessarily incurred in the enforcement of this subchapter.  (e) A civil action under this section may not be brought more than three (3) years after the date on which the violation of this subchapter is committed.
AR Code § 12-12-1707 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 17 - Adult and Long-Term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Act|§ 12-12-1707. Adult and long-term care facility resident maltreatment hotline

 (a) The Department of Human Services shall maintain a single statewide telephone number that all persons, whether mandated by law or not, may use to report a case of suspected adult maltreatment and long-term care facility resident maltreatment.  (b) When appropriate, a copy of the initial report shall immediately be made available to the appropriate law enforcement agency for its consideration.  (c)  (1) The department shall not release information that would identify the person who made the report unless a court of competent jurisdiction orders release of the information after the court has reviewed in camera the record related to the report and has found that disclosure is necessary:  (A) To prevent execution of a crime; or  (B) For prosecution of a crime.    (2)  (A) However, any person to whom the name of the reporter is disclosed is prohibited from redisclosing this information, except as provided in subdivision (c)(2)(B) of this section.  (B)  (i) Upon request, the information shall be disclosed to:  (a) The Attorney General;  (b) The prosecuting attorney; or  (c) Law enforcement officers.    (ii) However, the information shall remain confidential until criminal charges are filed.        (d)  (1) A report of an allegation of suspected adult maltreatment or long-term care facility resident maltreatment shall be accepted if the allegation, if true, would constitute adult maltreatment or long-term care facility resident maltreatment and so long as sufficient identifying information is provided to identify and locate the victim.  (2) A report to the hotline when the allegation, even if true, would not constitute adult maltreatment or long-term care facility resident maltreatment shall be screened out.    (e)  (1) The hotline shall accept a report if the victim or offender is present in Arkansas or if the incident occurred in Arkansas.  (2) If the incident occurred in another state, the hotline shall screen out the report and transfer the report to the hotline of the state in which the incident occurred.  (3) Upon request from an adult maltreatment or long-term care facility resident maltreatment investigator in another state, the department shall complete courtesy interviews with the victim, offender, or any witness of adult maltreatment who resides in Arkansas.    (f) Upon registration of a hotline report of suspected adult maltreatment or long-term care facility resident maltreatment, the hotline shall refer the matter immediately to the appropriate investigating agency as outlined in this subchapter.
AR Code § 12-12-1709 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 17 - Adult and Long-Term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Act|§ 12-12-1709. Report of death caused by maltreatment

 (a)  (1) Any person or official who is required to report a case of suspected adult maltreatment or long-term care facility resident maltreatment under this subchapter and who has reasonable cause to suspect that an adult or long-term care facility resident has died as a result of maltreatment shall report the suspected death from maltreatment to the appropriate medical examiner or coroner.  (2)  (A) In all cases of the death of a long-term care facility resident or a hospice facility resident, the long-term care facility or the hospice facility shall immediately report the death to the appropriate coroner.  (B) The report is required regardless of whether the long-term care facility or the hospice facility believes the death to be from natural causes or the result of maltreatment or any other cause.    (3)  (A) In all cases of the death in a hospital of a person who was a long-term care facility resident within five (5) days before entering the hospital, the hospital shall immediately report the death to the appropriate coroner.  (B) The report is required regardless of whether the hospital believes the death to be from natural causes, the result of maltreatment, or any other cause.      (b)  (1) The medical examiner or coroner shall accept the report for investigation and upon finding reasonable cause to suspect that a person has died as a result of maltreatment shall report the findings to a law enforcement agency and the appropriate prosecuting attorney.  (2) If the institution making the report is a hospital or long-term care facility, the medical examiner or coroner shall report the findings to the hospital or long-term care facility unless the findings are part of a pending or ongoing law enforcement investigation.    (c) If it receives findings under subdivision (b)(2) of this section, the medical examiner, coroner, or hospital shall also report findings under subsection (b) of this section to the Department of Human Services if:  (1) Reasonable cause exists to believe the death resulted from maltreatment; or  (2) Upon request of the department and there is a pending investigation concerning allegations of maltreatment occurring before death.
AR Code § 12-12-1710 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 17 - Adult and Long-Term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Act|§ 12-12-1710. Investigation by Department of Human Services

 (a) The Department of Human Services shall have jurisdiction to investigate all cases of suspected maltreatment of an endangered person or an impaired person.  (b)  (1) The Adult Protective Services Unit of the Department of Human Services shall investigate:  (A) All cases of suspected adult maltreatment if the act or omission occurs in a place other than a long-term care facility; and  (B) All cases of suspected adult maltreatment of an adult endangered person or an adult impaired person if a family member of the adult endangered person or adult impaired person is named as the suspected offender, regardless of whether or not the adult endangered person or adult impaired person is a long-term care facility resident.    (2) The department shall investigate all cases of suspected maltreatment of a long-term care facility resident.  (3) If requested by the department, a law enforcement agency possessing jurisdiction shall assist in the investigation of any case of suspected adult maltreatment or long-term care facility resident maltreatment, including accompanying the department's investigator if the department has a reasonable belief that the investigator's safety could be compromised.
AR Code § 12-12-1711 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 17 - Adult and Long-Term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Act|§ 12-12-1711. Procedures for investigation by the Department of Human Services

 (a) The Department of Human Services shall conduct a thorough investigation of all suspected adult maltreatment or long-term care facility resident maltreatment in accordance with this subchapter.  (b)  (1) The investigation shall be completed and an investigative determination entered within sixty (60) days.  (2) The investigation shall be conducted by an examination and review of the allegations and any other information concerning suspected adult maltreatment or long-term care facility resident maltreatment received by or collected by the department from any source.  (3) The investigation and written investigative report shall include:  (A) The nature, extent, and cause of the adult maltreatment or long-term care facility resident maltreatment;  (B) The identity of the person responsible;  (C) The names and conditions of other adults in the home, if the incident occurred in a home;  (D) An evaluation of the persons responsible for the care of the maltreated person, if any;  (E) The home environment, the relationship of the maltreated person to the next of kin or other person responsible for his or her care, and all other pertinent data; and  (F)  (i) If the incident occurred in the home, a visit to the maltreated person's home and an interview with the maltreated person.  (ii) An investigator shall interview the maltreated person alone and out of the hearing of any next of kin or other person responsible for the maltreated person's care.  (iii) If necessary, an interpreter may be present during the interview of the maltreated person.
AR Code § 12-12-1712 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 17 - Adult and Long-Term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Act|§ 12-12-1712. Photographs and X-rays

 (a) Any person who is required to report a case of adult maltreatment or long-term care facility resident maltreatment may take or cause to be taken, at public expense, color photographs of the area of trauma visible on the maltreated person and, if medically indicated, cause to be performed radiological examination of the maltreated person.  (b)  (1) Whenever a person is required to report under this subchapter in his or her capacity as a member of the staff of any private or public institution or agency, he or she shall immediately notify the person in charge of the institution or agency or his or her designee.  (2) Upon notification under subdivision (b)(1) of this section, the person in charge of the institution or agency or his or her designee shall:  (A) Take or cause to be taken, at public expense, color photographs of physical trauma; and  (B) If medically indicated, cause to be performed a radiological examination of the maltreated person.      (c)  (1) Any photograph or X-ray taken under this section shall be sent to the Department of Human Services as soon as possible.  (2) The department is not required to pay for a photograph or X-ray or a copy of a photograph or X-ray taken under this section.
AR Code § 12-12-1713 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 17 - Adult and Long-Term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Act|§ 12-12-1713. Immunity for investigation participants

 (a) Any person, official, or institution acting in good faith in the making of a report, the taking of a photograph, or the removal of a maltreated person under this subchapter shall have immunity from liability and suit for damages, civil or criminal, that otherwise might result by reason of those actions.  (b) The good faith of any person required to report a case of adult maltreatment or long-term care facility resident maltreatment shall be presumed.