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12-18-1002. Placement in a foster home.
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12-18-1002. Placement in a foster home.
A county sheriff or chief of police may place a child in his or her custody in a Department of Human Services foster home if:
(1) The county sheriff or chief of police contacts the on-call worker for the department and does not get a return phone call within thirty (30) minutes;
(2) The county sheriff or chief of police contacts the department emergency notification line and does not get a return phone call within fifteen (15) minutes;
(3) The foster parent is personally well-known to the county sheriff or the chief of police;
(4) The county sheriff or chief of police has:
(A) Determined that the foster parent's home is safe and provides adequate accommodations for the child; and
(B) Performed a criminal record and child maltreatment check on the foster parent as required under § 9-28-409; and
(5) On the next business day, the county sheriff or chief of police immediately notifies the department of the time and date that the child was placed in the foster parent's home.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-18-1002
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12-18-1002. Placement in a foster home.
A county sheriff or chief of police may place a child in his or her custody in a Department of Human Services foster home if:
(1) The county sheriff or chief of police contacts the on-call worker for the department and does not get a return phone call within thirty (30) minutes;
(2) The county sheriff or chief of police contacts the department emergency notification line and does not get a return phone call within fifteen (15) minutes;
(3) The foster parent is personally well-known to the county sheriff or the chief of police;
(4) The county sheriff or chief of police has:
(A) Determined that the foster parent's home is safe and provides adequate accommodations for the child; and
(B) Performed a criminal record and child maltreatment check on the foster parent as required under § 9-28-409; and
(5) On the next business day, the county sheriff or chief of police immediately notifies the department of the time and date that the child was placed in the foster parent's home.
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9-28-409. Criminal record and child maltreatment checks.
(a)(1) Each of the following persons in a child welfare agency shall be checked with the Child Maltreatment Central Registry in his or her state of residence and any state of residence in which the person has lived for the past five (5) years and in the person's state of employment, if different, for reports of child maltreatment in compliance with policy and procedures promulgated by the Child Welfare Agency Review Board:
(A) An employee having direct and unsupervised contact with children;
(B) A volunteer having direct and unsupervised contact with children;
(C) A foster parent and all household members fourteen (14) years of age and older, excluding children in foster care;
(D) An adoptive parent and all household members fourteen (14) years of age and older, excluding children in foster care;
(E) An owner having direct and unsupervised contact with children; and
(F) A member of the agency's board of directors having direct and unsupervised contact with children.
(2) The Child Welfare Agency Review Board shall have the authority to deny a license or church-operated exemption to any applicant found to have any record of founded child maltreatment in the official record of the registry.
(3)(A) Any person required to be checked under this section who is found to have any record of child maltreatment in the official record of the registry shall be reviewed by the owner or operator of the facility in consultation with the Child Welfare Agency Review Board to determine appropriate corrective action measures that would indicate, but are not limited to, training, probationary employment, or nonselection for employment.
(B) The Child Welfare Agency Review Board shall also have the authority to deny a
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 9-28-409
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 9-28-409. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.