Bill > A3547

Introduced Session

This bill would authorize the Division of Child Protection and Permanency in the Department of Children and Families (DCF) to disclose to religious institutions information on child abuse or neglect allegations involving a prospective or current employee who will provide instruction or other services to children. Current law specifies the circumstances under which DCF is authorized to disclose to certain entities records and reports of child abuse, information obtained by DCF in investigating such reports, and reports of findings that are forwarded to the State child abuse registry. Religious institutions are not included among the entities to which DCF is permitted to disclose this information, as was recently noted in an opinion of the Appellate Division of the Superior Court, decided April 5, 2013, in New Jersey Div. of Youth & Family Servs. v. P.H. and J.C., 2013 N.J. Super. LEXIS 52.

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Jay Webber (R)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Women and Children Committee (on 04/04/2016)