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SB 39 (2007) c. 468

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SB 39, c. 468: County welfare agencies and departments; child abuse and neglect; files. 1) provides for the release by a county welfare agency of specified information regarding a deceased child where the death is reasonably suspected to be the result of abuse or neglect, within five days of the child's death, (2) where a child's death is substantiated to be from abuse or neglect, establishes a process for the release of specified documents in a county welfare agency's juvenile case file, without court review and for the release of other documents in the case file after a petition is filed and opportunity is given for interested parties to object to the release of those other documents, and (3) clarifies existing law relating to the release of a juvenile case file when a child has died due to abuse or neglect, including the presumption of disclosure unless statutory grounds for non- or partial-disclosure or redaction of information exist. The bill contains legislative declarations and findings regarding the need for quicker access to information contained in a juvenile case file where a child died as a result of abuse or neglect.