Requires that attorneys be available to parents of minors; requires that all interactions with children by child protective services and the administration for children's services are videotaped.
Requires the office of children and family services to promulgate regulations for training requirements for child protective services workers assigned to a multidisciplinary investigative team; amends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating thereto.
Requires the office of children and family services to promulgate regulations for training requirements for child protective services workers assigned to a multidisciplinary investigative team; amends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating thereto.
Requires the office for the aging to develop and provide elder abuse prevention training to train senior service centers and entities that contract with the office for the aging and the office of children and family services to provide services to elderly persons in the detection and reporting of elder abuse in consultation with the office of children and family services.
Requires the office for the aging to develop and provide elder abuse prevention training to train senior service centers and entities that contract with the office for the aging and the office of children and family services to provide services to elderly persons in the detection and reporting of elder abuse in consultation with the office of children and family services.
Provides access to representation for adults in child protective proceedings of the family court who are financially eligible as determined by the chief administrator of the courts; provides access by attorneys for adults and children to records of the statewide registry of child abuse and maltreatment.
Requires providers of residential services to developmentally disabled children to have electronic monitoring devices in the common areas of their residential facilities.
Enacts the "civil justice protection act (CJPA)"; requires that no person shall waive a series of rights and procedures when purchasing goods and services.
Enacts the "civil justice protection act (CJPA)"; requires that no person shall waive a series of rights and procedures when purchasing goods and services.
Requires that any covered entity that develops/provides online services, products, or features that children are reasonably likely to access shall consider the best interest of children when designing/developing such online service, product, or feature.