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AR Code § 12-18-706 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 18 - Child Maltreatment Act|Subchapter 7 - Investigative Findings|§ 12-18-706. Notice if the alleged offender is eighteen years of age or older

 Notification to an alleged offender who was eighteen (18) years of age or older at the time of the act or omission that resulted in a true finding of child maltreatment shall include the following:   (1) The investigative determination, excluding data that would identify the person who made the report to the Child Abuse Hotline;  (2) A statement that the person named as the alleged offender of the true report may request an administrative hearing;  (3) A statement that the request must be made to the Department of Human Services within thirty (30) days of receipt of the service or certified mailing of the notice of determination;  (4) The potential consequences to the person if the person's name is placed on the Child Maltreatment Central Registry;  (5) A statement that the person has a right to have an attorney and that if the person cannot afford an attorney to contact the Center for Arkansas Legal Services;  (6) A statement that if the person's name is placed on the registry, the person's name may be automatically removed after one (1) year or the person may be able to petition for removal after one (1) year, depending on the finding;  (7) The name of the person making the notification to the alleged offender, his or her title or position, and current contact information; and  (8) A statement that the administrative hearing may take place in person if requested by the alleged offender or the alleged offender's attorney within thirty (30) days from the date that the alleged offender receives notification under this section.
AR Code § 12-18-708 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 18 - Child Maltreatment Act|Subchapter 7 - Investigative Findings|§ 12-18-708. Miscellaneous notice requirements

 (a) The Department of Human Services and the Department of Arkansas State Police shall confirm an investigative determination upon request from the following:  (1) The responsible multidisciplinary team;  (2) The juvenile division of circuit court if the victim or offender has an open dependency-neglect or family in need of services case;  (3) The attorney ad litem for any child who is named as the victim or offender;  (4) The Court Appointed Special Advocates volunteer for any child named as the alleged victim or offender;  (5) Any licensing or registering authority to the extent necessary to carry out its official responsibilities;  (6) Any Department of Human Services and Department of Arkansas State Police division director or facility director receiving notice of a Child Abuse Hotline report under this chapter;  (7) Any facility director receiving notice of a Child Abuse Hotline report under this chapter;  (8) The attorney ad litem and Court Appointed Special Advocates volunteer for all other children in the same foster home if the child maltreatment occurred in a foster home; and  (9) The attorney ad litem and Court Appointed Special Advocates volunteer for any child in foster care when the alleged juvenile offender or underaged juvenile offender is placed in the same placement as the attorney ad litem or Court Appointed Special Advocates volunteer's client.    (b) If the investigative determination is true, notification of the investigative determination shall be provided to the school where the victim child is enrolled. However, the name of the alleged offender shall not be identified.  (c) The Department of Human Services and the Department of Arkansas State Police may notify the persons or entities listed in subsection (a) of this section of the investigative determination, if the Department of Human Services and the Department of Arkansas State Police determine the notification is necessary to ensure the health or safety of the child.
AR Code § 12-18-709 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 18 - Child Maltreatment Act|Subchapter 7 - Investigative Findings|§ 12-18-709. Confidentiality

 (a) Notice of an investigative determination under this chapter is confidential and may be disclosed only as provided in this chapter.  (b)  (1) The Department of Human Services and the Division of Arkansas State Police shall not release data 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 it has reason to believe that the reporter knowingly made a false report.  (2) However, upon request, the information shall be disclosed to the prosecuting attorney or law enforcement.    (c)  (1) Any person or agency to whom disclosure is made shall not disclose to any other person a report or other information obtained pursuant to this section.  (2) However, the person or agency is permitted to consult his or her or its own attorney regarding the information in any notice provided by the Department of Human Services and the Division of Arkansas State Police.    (d)  (1) Notification of the investigative determination of severe maltreatment shall be provided to the appropriate law enforcement agency and the prosecuting attorney.  (2) The prosecuting attorney and law enforcement may provide written notice to the Department of Human Services and the Division of Arkansas State Police that the Department of Human Services and the Division of Arkansas State Police do not need to provide notice of investigative determinations.  (3) Upon receiving the notification, the Department of Human Services and the Division of Arkansas State Police shall not be required to provide notification of the investigative determination.    (e) The Department of Human Services and the Division of Arkansas State Police shall notify each subject of the report of the investigative determination whether true or unsubstantiated.  (f) The Department of Human Services and the Division of Arkansas State Police shall notify the alleged offender's legal parents, legal guardians, and foster parents of the investigative determination if the:  (1) Investigative determination is unsubstantiated; and  (2) Alleged offender is:  (A) Under eighteen (18) years of age; and  (B) In foster care.      (g) The Department of Human Services and the Division of Arkansas State Police shall notify any family advocacy program or other person or entity designated by the military authority for the military installation to which notice must be given of child maltreatment investigations under § 12-18-508 of the investigation determination whether true or unsubstantiated.
AR Code § 12-18-711 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 18 - Child Maltreatment Act|Subchapter 7 - Investigative Findings|§ 12-18-711. Fee for copying investigative file

 (a) Except as provided under subsection (b) of this section, the Department of Human Services may charge:  (1) A reasonable fee not to exceed ten dollars ($10.00) for researching, copying, or mailing records from a child maltreatment investigative file under this chapter; and  (2) A reasonable fee for reproducing copies of electronic media, such as audio tapes, video recordings, compact discs, or DVDs, and photographs.    (b) A fee shall not be charged to:  (1) A nonprofit or volunteer agency that requests searches of the investigative files; or  (2) A person who is indigent.
AR Code § 12-18-712 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 18 - Child Maltreatment Act|Subchapter 7 - Investigative Findings|§ 12-18-712. Mental health services for alleged sex offenders under eighteen years of age and the victim

 (a) If an investigative determination of a report under this chapter was determined true and the alleged sex offender is a child under eighteen (18) years of age at the time the act or omission occurred, the alleged sex offender and the victim shall be referred for mental health services, including a mental health evaluation and treatment if determined necessary by a mental health professional.  (b) The Department of Human Services and the Department of Arkansas State Police shall:  (1) Provide the parents or legal guardians of the alleged sex offender and the victim with a list of the mental health professionals or agencies available to evaluate and treat the alleged sex offender and the victim, if necessary; and  (2) Assist the parents or legal guardians of the alleged sex offender and the victim with a referral for a mental health evaluation, if necessary.
AR Code § 12-18-713 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 18 - Child Maltreatment Act|Subchapter 7 - Investigative Findings|§ 12-18-713. Reports on overturned true determinations

 (a)  (1) The Department of Human Services and the Division of Arkansas State Police shall submit two (2) reports annually on true determinations made under this chapter that are administratively or judicially overturned to the Senate Interim Committee on Children and Youth and the House Committee on Aging, Children and Youth, Legislative and Military Affairs.  (2) The first report shall be submitted on June 1 and the second report shall be submitted on December 1.    (b) A report submitted under subsection (a) of this section shall include:  (1) Data on overturned true determinations by county; and  (2) Any other information requested by the Senate Interim Committee on Children and Youth and the House Committee on Aging, Children and Youth, Legislative and Military Affairs.
AR Code § 12-18-802 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 18 - Child Maltreatment Act|Subchapter 8 - Administrative Hearings|§ 12-18-802. Subpoenas — Service upon a child

 If any child served with a subpoena to be a witness in an administrative hearing is a party to an open dependency-neglect or family in need of services case, the child's attorney ad litem shall be provided a copy of the subpoena.
AR Code § 12-18-803 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 18 - Child Maltreatment Act|Subchapter 8 - Administrative Hearings|§ 12-18-803. Privileged communications as evidence — Exception

 (a) It is the public policy of the State of Arkansas to protect the health, safety, and the welfare of children within the state.  (b) No privilege, except that between a lawyer and client or between a minister, including a Christian Science practitioner, and a person confessing to or being counseled by the minister shall prevent anyone from testifying concerning child maltreatment.  (c) When a physician, psychologist, psychiatrist, or licensed counselor or therapist conducts interviews with or provides therapy to a subject of a report of suspected child maltreatment for purposes related to child maltreatment, the physician, psychologist, psychiatrist, or licensed counselor or therapist is deemed to be performing services on behalf of the child.  (d) An adult subject of a report of suspected child maltreatment cannot invoke privilege on the child's behalf.
AR Code § 12-18-804 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 18 - Child Maltreatment Act|Subchapter 8 - Administrative Hearings|§ 12-18-804. Defenses and affirmative defenses

 For any act or omission of child maltreatment that would be a criminal offense or an act of delinquency, any defense or affirmative defense, including the burden of proof regarding the affirmative defense, that would apply to the criminal offense or delinquent act is also cognizable in a child maltreatment proceeding with the exception of:   (1) A statute of limitation;  (2) Lack of capacity as a result of mental disease or defect under § 5-2-312; and  (3) Affirmative defenses under §§ 5-1-112 — 5-1-114.
AR Code § 12-18-805 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 18 - Child Maltreatment Act|Subchapter 8 - Administrative Hearings|§ 12-18-805. Video teleconferencing and teleconferencing options

 (a)  (1) An administrative law judge may conduct an administrative hearing under this chapter by video teleconference in lieu of an in-person hearing.  (2) If neither party requests that the administrative hearing be conducted in person, the administrative hearing shall be conducted telephonically.    (b) If any party requests an in-person administrative hearing within thirty (30) days from the date that the party receives notification of the investigative determination, the in-person administrative hearing shall be conducted in an office of the Department of Human Services nearest to the petitioner's residence unless the administrative law judge notifies the parties that the administrative hearing will be conducted via video teleconference.  (c)  (1) The Office of Appeals and Hearings of the Department of Human Services shall designate the sites to be used for video teleconference administrative hearings.  (2) The office shall designate sites within ten (10) miles of the following cities:  (A) Arkadelphia;  (B) Booneville;  (C) Conway;  (D) Fayetteville;  (E) Jonesboro;  (F) Little Rock; and  (G) Warren.    (3) The office may designate additional sites for video teleconference administrative hearings.  (4) A site for a video teleconference administrative hearing shall include the location designated by the office that is nearest to the petitioner's residence.  (5) The administrative law judge and other parties may agree to appear at the location designated by the office or at any other designated administrative hearing locations that are convenient to them.
AR Code § 12-18-806 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 18 - Child Maltreatment Act|Subchapter 8 - Administrative Hearings|§ 12-18-806. Continuances

 (a)  (1) An administrative law judge shall grant a continuance if the record under this chapter tendered by the Department of Human Services to the alleged offender is determined by the administrative law judge to be incomplete.  (2) The administrative law judge shall direct the department to make diligent inquiry and obtain the missing information to supplement the record if:  (A) The department receives further information;  (B) The alleged offender gives notice of the existence of further information; or  (C) The department examines the record and determines that additional information exists.    (3) If additional information is found to exist, the record shall be supplemented and the department shall provide a copy of the supplemented record to the alleged offender.    (b) At least ten (10) days prior to the administrative hearing, the alleged offender and the department shall share any information with the other party that the party intends to introduce into evidence at the administrative hearing that is not contained in the record.  (c) If a party fails to timely share information, the administrative law judge shall:  (1) Grant a continuance;  (2) Allow the record to remain open for submission of rebuttal evidence; or  (3) Reject the information as not relevant to the incident of child maltreatment.    (d) Any time accrued during the continuance or allowing the record to remain open shall not be counted in the one-hundred-eighty-day time period to complete the administrative hearing.
AR Code § 12-18-807 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 18 - Child Maltreatment Act|Subchapter 8 - Administrative Hearings|§ 12-18-807. Administrative judgments and adjudications

 (a) If a court of competent jurisdiction adjudicates a question that is an issue to be determined by the Office of Appeals and Hearings of the Department of Human Services, the prevailing party to the judicial adjudication who is also a party to the administrative adjudication shall file a certified copy of the judicial adjudication with the office.  (b)  (1) The office shall determine whether and to what extent the judicial adjudication has preclusive effect on the administrative adjudication by applying the principles of claim preclusion and issue preclusion.  (2) The office shall not readjudicate any precluded issues.    (c) If the judicial adjudication is modified or reversed, the office shall determine whether and to what extent any issue in the administrative adjudication remains precluded and shall schedule a hearing with respect to any matter that is no longer precluded.
AR Code § 12-18-808 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 18 - Child Maltreatment Act|Subchapter 8 - Administrative Hearings|§ 12-18-808. Notice of juvenile division circuit court proceedings

 (a) The Department of Human Services and the Department of Arkansas State Police shall notify the administrative law judge and the petitioner of the status of any juvenile division of circuit court proceeding involving the victim if child maltreatment at issue in the administrative hearing proceeding is also an issue in the juvenile division of circuit court proceeding.  (b) Notice from the Department of Human Services and the Department of Arkansas State Police under this section shall also include whether the Department of Human Services exercised a seventy-two-hour hold on the victim and released the child or if the Department of Human Services or division of circuit court dismissed a petition for emergency custody or dependency-neglect.
AR Code § 12-18-809 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 18 - Child Maltreatment Act|Subchapter 8 - Administrative Hearings|§ 12-18-809. Confidentiality

 (a) An administrative hearing decision and the hearing record, including all exhibits, under this chapter are confidential and shall remain confidential upon the filing of an appeal with a circuit court or an appellate court.  (b) An administrative hearing decision and the hearing record, including all exhibits, under this chapter that uphold the agency investigative determination of true may be used or disclosed only as provided in this chapter.  (c) An administrative hearing decision and the hearing record, including all exhibits, under this chapter that overturn the agency investigative determination of true may be used or disclosed only as provided in this chapter.
AR Code § 12-18-810 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 18 - Child Maltreatment Act|Subchapter 8 - Administrative Hearings|§ 12-18-810. Authority to amend investigative determinations based on evidence

 (a) An administrative law judge may amend an investigative determination to conform with the evidence presented.  (b)  (1) If the alleged offender could not reasonably infer the amended investigative determination from the investigative record and information submitted by the Department of Human Services and the Department of Arkansas State Police, the administrative law judge shall, upon request, grant a continuance to the alleged offender.  (2) However, an amendment of the investigative determination shall not be done after the conclusion of the hearing.
AR Code § 12-18-811 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 18 - Child Maltreatment Act|Subchapter 8 - Administrative Hearings|§ 12-18-811. Expedited administrative hearings — Definition

 (a)  (1) If an alleged offender timely requests an administrative hearing, the Department of Human Services and the Department of Arkansas State Police may request that the administrative hearing be expedited if the alleged offender is engaged in child-related activities or employment or the alleged offender is employed or a volunteer with persons with disabilities, persons with mental illnesses, or elderly persons.  (2) The alleged offender shall have five (5) days from date of receipt of the request for an expedited administrative hearing to object to any request to expedite the administrative hearing.    (b) The expedited administrative hearing shall be granted if any of the following are at risk because of the alleged offender's employment or volunteer activities:  (1) Children;  (2) The elderly; or  (3) Persons with disabilities or mental illnesses.    (c) If the administrative hearing is expedited, the Department of Human Services and the Department of Arkansas State Police shall immediately make the investigative file available to the alleged offender.  (d)  (1) The Department of Human Services and the Department of Arkansas State Police may charge:  (A) A reasonable fee not to exceed ten dollars ($10.00) for researching, copying, or mailing records from a child maltreatment investigative file; and  (B) A reasonable fee for reproducing copies of electronic media, such as audio tapes, video tapes, compact discs, DVDs, and photographs.    (2) A fee shall not be charged to a person who is indigent.    (e)  (1) Unless waived by the alleged offender, the expedited administrative hearing process shall not be held until at least thirty (30) days have elapsed after the investigative file is made available to the alleged offender.  (2) As used in this section, “made available” means notification to the offender or his or her attorney that a copy of the investigative record is available for pickup at the Department of Human Services office in the county in which the alleged offender resides or in the Department of Human Services office in the county designated by the alleged offender or his or her attorney.