Re: Legal Questions- (Statutes Incl.)

August 30, 1999

According to statute, you may notify your local law enf. agency instead of

CPS.

Considering CPS' track record for investigations, I think it is best to call

the law enforcement. They have the power to remove the child w/out a court

order in an emergency situation. Let the police deal with CPS.

Jay

[texasems-L] Re: Legal Questions- (Statutes Incl.)

> No, NO, NO. We are personally responsible to report it by phone to CPS

> ourself. We may inform the ER and they should also report it, but we

> must.

> Remeber, we are reporting suspicion of child abuse. We don't have to

> produce evidence. What if we are wrong? What if we are right? CPS will

> do the investigation. But . . . WE MUST CALL.

>

> On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:51:00 EDT Mike592@... writes:

> >Now I was always under the impression that our responsibility in

> >reporting

> >child abuse is to report it to the physcian in the ER. Here in Fort

> >Worth,

> >we pass the info on to the staff at the children's hospital and they

> >have

> >represenatives in the hospital from CPS. Is this enough or are we

> >supposed

> >to contact CPS ourselves? We do normally contact the Fort Worth

> >Police

> >Department and then let them and the hospital handle it from there.

> >Thanks,

> >

> >Mike

> >

>

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