Alabama Administrative Code › Title 660 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES › Chapter 660-5-39 - LICENSING: MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES › Section 660-5-39-.11 - Interstate Placement Of Children

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) In working with any out-of-state agency
			 or individual in the placement of any child, the child-placing agency shall
			 comply with provisions of the "Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
			 law" concerning the bringing into the state of any child, or the "Interstate
			 Compact on the Placement of Children law" of the state into which the child is
			 to be sent. In order to ensure such compliance, all requests and correspondence
			 shall be channeled through the Division of Family and Children's Services.
(a) Reference is made to §§38-5-15
			 and 44-2-20,
Code of Ala.
			 1975
:
1. No person or agency
			 shall bring or send any child into the State of Alabama for the purpose of
			 placing him or procuring his adoption or placing him in any child care
			 facility, as defined herein, without first obtaining the consent of the
			 Department. The Department shall have the power to impose and enforce
			 reasonable conditions precedent to the granting of such consent; and such
			 conditions shall be for the purpose of providing the same care and protection
			 for the child coming into the State of Alabama for placement or adoption as are
			 afforded to a child who is born in the State of Alabama; and such conditions
			 shall include the following:
(1) the
			 Department shall be authorized to designate an agency in another state from
			 which said child is being brought or sent, or in which said child's parents or
			 guardian may be found, to interview said parent or parents or guardian, or at
			 least one of them, for the purpose of obtaining social information, background
			 information, and medical information about said child;
(2) the Department shall be authorized to
			 receive such information from the designated agency in the other state;
(3) the Department shall be
			 authorized to receive the birth certificate of said child from the designated
			 agency in the other state or from another appropriate agency in the other
			 state;
(4) the Department shall be
			 authorized to make a thorough investigation of the proposed foster parent or
			 parents, and their home, to determine whether or not they are financially able,
			 physically able, and morally fit to have the care, supervision, training, and
			 control of said child;
(5) the
			 Department shall be authorized to make a thorough investigation of any child
			 care facility to which any child is being brought or sent to determine
			 conformity to minimum standards prescribed herein for approval or licensing and
			 to determine the suitability of such child care facility for the care,
			 supervision, training, and control of said child;
(6) in case said child, subsequent to being
			 brought into the State of Alabama, becomes dependent, neglected, or delinquent
			 prior to his adoption or becoming of legal age of majority, said child shall be
			 subject to the laws of the State of Alabama as if he were a resident child of
			 this state;
(7) the child will be
			 placed in conformity with the rules and regulations of the Department;
(8) the person with whom the child
			 is placed shall be responsible for his proper care and training;
(9) the Department shall have the right of
			 visitation and supervision of the child and the home or the child care facility
			 in which he is placed until adoption becomes final or the child becomes
			 eighteen years of age;
(10) the
			 Department may, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, prescribe the
			 condition of an agreement or contract with the designated out-of-state agency,
			 when a child is brought into the State of Alabama. The person or agency
			 receiving the child in Alabama shall report to the Department at such
			 reasonable times as the Department may direct, as to the location and
			 well-being of the child, so long as he shall remain within the State and until
			 he shall have reached the age of eighteen years or shall have been legally
			 adopted.
Author:
Jerome Webb