CHAPTER 5 - PROGRAMS AND PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH
- ARTICLE 1 - CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES
- § 49-5-1 - Short title
- § 49-5-10 - Commitment of delinquent or unruly children to department; procedures; handling and treatment; escape and apprehension; release; termination of control
- § 49-5-10.1 - Temporary transfer of at-risk unruly or delinquent children to Department of Corrections; procedure; review; discharge
- § 49-5-11 - Escape from a youth detention center
- § 49-5-12 - Licensing and inspection of child welfare agencies; standards; revocation or refusal of license; penalties; violations
- § 49-5-12.1 - Penalties for violation of child welfare agency laws and regulations
- § 49-5-13 - Private day-care centers not required to meet federal adult-child ratio
- § 49-5-14 - Fire inspections of day-care homes and centers; fire safety codes
- § 49-5-15 - Notice as to child brought into state for placement or adoption; bond; certificate as to foster home; reports
- § 49-5-16 - Power of department to contract; acceptance of children from federal courts for compensation
- § 49-5-17 - Power of department to accept and use gifts
- § 49-5-18 - Instituting or intervening in legal proceedings
- § 49-5-19 - Annual report on children and youth services
- § 49-5-2 - Purpose of article
- § 49-5-20 - Existing charters of charitable institutions
- § 49-5-21 - Penalties for aiding, harboring, or encouraging escapees or hindering their apprehension
- § 49-5-22 - Voluntary pre-kindergarten programs to provide toilet facilities screened for privacy
- § 49-5-23 - Obtaining information on recall notices
- § 49-5-3 - Definitions
- § 49-5-4 - Other state departments, agencies, officers, and employees to assist department
- § 49-5-5 - Powers and duties of board; rules and regulations for training schools and other facilities
- § 49-5-6 - Merit system to conform to federal standards; power to employ and contract for professional services; employment and dismissal procedures; membership in state retirement system
- § 49-5-7 - Development and administration of public child welfare and youth services
- § 49-5-8 - Powers and duties of department
- § 49-5-9 - Use of public and private institutions and agencies; inspections; examination and control of children not in department's facilities
- ARTICLE 2 - CHILD ABUSE AND DEPRIVATION RECORDS
- § 49-5-40 - Definitions; confidentiality of records; restricted access to records
- § 49-5-41 - Persons and agencies permitted access to records
- § 49-5-41.1 - Inspection and retention of records of juvenile drug use
- § 49-5-42 - Rules and regulations
- § 49-5-43 - Article not to conflict with federal law or lose federal funds; duty of board
- § 49-5-44 - Penalties for unauthorized access to records; use of records in public and criminal proceedings
- § 49-5-45 - Penalty for allowing unauthorized access to juvenile drug use records
- § 49-5-46 - Liability of department or agency
- ARTICLE 3 - EMPLOYEES' RECORDS CHECKS FOR DAY-CARE CENTERS
- § 49-5-60 - Definitions
- § 49-5-61 - Requirement of separate license and separate director for each new facility
- § 49-5-62 - Records check application for director of new facility; preliminary records check for employees
- § 49-5-63 - Notice of determination; issue of license; effect of unsatisfactory determination
- § 49-5-64 - Fingerprint records check
- § 49-5-65 - Determination on the basis of fingerprint records check; revocation of license
- § 49-5-65.1 - Employment of persons who have entered plea of guilty or nolo contendere to specified offenses
- § 49-5-66 - Separate license and center
- § 49-5-67 - Fingerprint records check application for director of existing facility; preliminary records check for employees; annual license
- ARTICLE 4 - EMERGENCY PROTECTION OF CHILDREN IN CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS
- ARTICLE 5 - RECORDS CHECKS FOR PERSONS SUPERVISING CHILDREN
- ARTICLE 6 - PROGRAMS AND PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN
- ARTICLE 7 - COMMISSION ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH
- ARTICLE 8 - CENTRAL CHILD ABUSE REGISTRY
- § 49-5-180 - Definitions
- § 49-5-181 - Establishment of central registry
- § 49-5-182 - Purpose of abuse registry
- § 49-5-183 - Reporting of abuse cases to DFACS office
- § 49-5-183.1 - Notice to alleged child abuser of classification; procedures; notification to division; children under 14 years of age not required to testify
- § 49-5-184 - Information to be included in abuse registry; hearing on expungement of name from registry; order; appeal
- § 49-5-185 - Access to information in registry
- § 49-5-186 - Confidentiality of information in registry; penalties for unauthorized use of information
- § 49-5-187 - Immunity from civil or criminal liability
- ARTICLE 9 - FAMILY PRESERVATION AND CHILD PROTECTION
- ARTICLE 10 - CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH SEVERE EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS
- § 49-5-220 - Legislative findings and intent; State Plan for the Coordinated System of Care for severely emotionally disturbed children or adolescents
- § 49-5-221 - Definitions
- § 49-5-222 - Guiding principles for coordinated system of care
- § 49-5-223 - Contents of plan; information to be collected; updating of plan; implementation date
- § 49-5-224 - Commissioner of behavioral health and developmental disabilities to submit annual report; contents of report
- § 49-5-225 - Local interagency committees; membership; function of committees
- § 49-5-226 - Placement of children and adolescents out of state for treatment
- § 49-5-227 - Governor's Office for Children and Families to comment on plan for Coordinated System of Care and provide recommendations
- ARTICLE 11 - CHILD CARE COUNCIL
- ARTICLE 12 - POLICY COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
- ARTICLE 13 - PEACHCARE FOR KIDS
- ARTICLE 14 - FOSTER PARENTS BILL OF RIGHTS