CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Domestic Violence
......Child Abuse Reporting Issues
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Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act.

Doctor's SJ motion on qualified immunity properly denied where she violated parents' constitutional rights by keeping injured C in hospital on suspicion of abuse without factual basis or reasonable belief, amounting to seizure of C.

Though Sheriff's Dept. had a mandatory duty to cross-report 911 child abuse allegations to child welfare, CANRA did not impose such duty on the investigating deputy sheriff.

Mother's spanking C with a wooden spoon is not reportable child abuse under CANRA if it constituted the reasonable imposition of discipline protected by the parental disciplinary privilege.

Hearing officer has a duty to question the truth of evidence the social worker relied on in finding child abuse report to be substantiated; procedural safeguards added to CANRA to satisfy DP.

School counselor was not immune from liability for her conduct in giving a copy of her SCAR report to accused mother's ex-H—CANRA abuse reports are confidential, to be disclosed to certain statutorily-identified entities only.

Aspects of Child Abuse Reporting Act and related issues