Bill > S3692

This bill seeks to improve the ability of the Department of Defense (DOD) to effectively prevent, track, and respond to military-connected child abuse. It includes several key provisions: 1. Expanding the DOD's centralized database on problematic sexual behavior in children and youth to track all reported incidents of child abuse, regardless of the perpetrator's relationship to the child. 2. Requiring the DOD and military law enforcement to record and share the dates when they notify each other about reported incidents of child abuse. 3. Issuing guidance to ensure child abuse allegations involving members of one military service are consistently incorporated into the Family Advocacy Program's central registry of another service. 4. Developing processes to monitor how reported child abuse incidents are screened and presented to Incident Determination Committees at military installations. 5. Clarifying DOD Education Activity guidance on reporting serious incidents of child abuse to school administrators. 6. Expanding the voting membership of Incident Determination Committees to include medical personnel. 7. Implementing procedures to provide comprehensive information to families of child abuse victims on how incidents will be addressed. 8. Issuing guidance to clarify when military commanders can remove a child from a potentially unsafe home on an overseas military installation. 9. Ensuring timely access to certified pediatric sexual assault forensic examiners for children sexually abused overseas. 10. Improving communication between military criminal investigators and U.S. Attorneys regarding child victim cases. 11. Seeking to develop memoranda of understanding with the National Children's Alliance to make children's advocacy center services available on all military installations.

Military Affairs and Security

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