CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Dependency Petitions
......Mandatory Reporting & Exams
.........Child Abuse Central Index
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Child Abuse Central Index (CACI).

Parties listed in the CACI database must show a “stigma-plus” claim, which requires that a cognizable constitutional wrong be joined with the defamation claim in order to sue to have their names removed.

Parents' continued listing in CACI, after child abuse charges proved false and dismissed, violates parents' due process rights.

Trial court must apply independent judgment standard to CACI-listed H's challenge to County's determination that child abuse allegations made against him were inconclusive rather than unfounded.

Order denying mother's motion for order directing SSA to change its finding on child abuse report from substantiated to unfounded and to transmit to the DOJ was affirmed where mother had not exhausted administrative remedies.

SSA's motion to take additional evidence and dismiss mother's appeal denied where CACI report and referral printouts were not postjudgment evidence and therefore would not cause the appeal to become moot.