The Department of Children and Families' Office of Communications shall direct and control the release of information to the media about a child fatality or near fatality investigated by the Division or determined by the Division to be the result of abuse or neglect. Information shall be disclosed by the Director or designee or a representative of the Department's Office of Communications. No other representative of the Division or the Department shall disclose information to the media or a member of the public about a child fatality or near fatality unless specifically authorized to do so by the Director or designee or the Commissioner of the Department of Children and Families.
N.J. Admin. Code § 3A:3-3.2
Amended by R.2007 d.157, effective 5/21/2007.
See: 38 N.J.R. 1634(b), 39 N.J.R. 2115(b).
Substituted "A Division employee" for "The Division", "a Division representative" for the first occurrence of "the Division", "a Division employee" for the second occurrence of "the Division" and "records" for "record", and inserted "except as otherwise provided by statute or court rule".
The following annotations apply to N.J.A.C. 10:133G-3.2 subsequent to its recodification in part from N.J.A.C. 10:133G-4.2 by R.2015 d.073:
Amended by R.2007 d.157, effective 5/21/2007.
See: 38 N.J.R. 1634(b), 39 N.J.R. 2115(b).
Substituted "Children and Families" for "Human Services' " throughout; in (a), deleted "child" preceding "abuse", inserted "or designee" two times and inserted "a representative of"; in (b)1, inserted the first occurrence of "a representative"; and in (c)1, substituted "Director or designee" for "Office of the Director".
Recodified in part from N.J.A.C. 10:133G-4.2 and amended by R.2015 d.073, effective 5/4/2015.
See: 46 N.J.R. 1535(a), 47 N.J.R. 896(b).
Deleted designation (a), and substituted "Communications" for "Public Information" twice. Former N.J.A.C. 10:133G-3.2, Child welfare information, repealed.