Making a mandatory report can be stressful, but it’s important. Mandatory reporting can be defined as “anyone required by law to report actual or suspected abuse and/or neglect.” It’s most often ...

Title IX protects against discrimination on the basis of sex. It is a part of the Education Amendments of 1972 and is enforced by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. Purdue has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Authority figures who fail to report allegations of crimes against children would have a lot more time to be brought up on charges ...

Joe Cheray, an abuse survivor, testified Monday in favor of a bill that would make clergy mandated reporters when they suspect a child is being abused. (Kansas Reflector screen capture from the House ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KWCH) - A bill that would make clergy mandatory reporters of child abuse is struggling to pass in the Kansas House for the fourth consecutive year, with advocates and religious leaders ...

TEXOMA (KXII) - Both Texas and Oklahoma require anyone who suspects child abuse to report it under mandatory reporting laws, with failure to report constituting a crime that carries at minimum ...

Although the vast majority of cases are unsubstantiated, CPS involvement is often traumatizing for families of color. A ...

A Minnesota senator wants to strengthen state laws meant to hold adults entrusted with children’s safety accountable for failing to report suspected child abuse, after an investigation by the ...

TOPEKA — Kansas ordained clergy would be mandated reporters of child abuse under a bill proposed Monday in the House Judiciary Committee, and proponents hope this will be the year it passes. House ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Cheray testified Monday in favor of a bill that would make clergy mandated reporters when they suspect a child is being abused ...