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“The grand jury investigation found Sacramento County knew years ago state law would require the closure of group homes for foster teens, but the CPS did no long-term planning to meet the new ...
Federal authorities arrested a Sacramento woman suspected of kicking her 2-year-old daughter on a plane, ... “Even by the horrific standards of child abuse cases, this is shocking,” federal ...
The criteria for reporting vary significantly based on jurisdiction. [11] Typically, mandatory reporting applies to people who have reason to suspect the abuse or neglect of a child, but it can also apply to people who suspect abuse or neglect of a dependent adult or the elderly, [12] or to any members of society (sometimes called Universal Mandatory Reporting [UMR]).
In 1974, the United States Congress passed the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), which provides funds to states for development of Child Protective Services (CPS) and hotlines to prevent serious injuries to children. These laws and the media and advocacy coverage and research brought about a gradual change in societal ...
A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Sacramento County man accused of sexually abusing a child, producing images of that abuse and distributing child pornography.
The protection of such administrative actions is typically provided in the form of health department regulations, including Child Protective Services (CPS) rules or rules on mandated reporting. Mandatory reporting laws require that persons witnessing certain visible injuries along with reports by a child of abuse to make report to the local CPS ...
She was a reporter and senior writer for The Sacramento Bee, for 29 years, taking a temporary break in 1990 to work for Gannett news service, where she and a fellow journalist wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning story on child abuse. [2] [1] In 2019 Lundstrom began working with FairWarning, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, based in southern ...
The three Sacramento County residents arrested in the operation included a 35-year-old Rancho Cordova man suspected of possessing child porn and using a minor to produce illicit images.