Chapter 4.4 - OFFICE OF THE CHILDREN'S OMBUDSMAN
- Section 2.2-438 - Definitions
- Section 2.2-439 - Children's Ombudsman; establishment; appointment; removal
- Section 2.2-440 - Procedures; training; complaint; investigation; notification of safety concerns
- Section 2.2-441 - Individuals making complaint to Children's Ombudsman
- Section 2.2-442 - Children's Ombudsman; powers and duties
- Section 2.2-443 - Abused or neglected children; children receiving child-protective services, in foster care, or placed for adoption; powers of Children's Ombudsman; child fatality cases; investigation
- Section 2.2-444 - Decision to investigate; notice; pursuing administrative remedies or channels of complaint; further investigation; violation of state or federal criminal law; complaint against child-placing agency; petition requesting court jurisdiction or termination of parental rights
- Section 2.2-445 - Department and child-placing agency; duties; information to be provided to biological parent, adoptive parent, or foster parent; access to departmental computer networks
- Section 2.2-446 - Confidentiality of record of Children's Ombudsman; disclosure; limitations; release of certain information
- Section 2.2-447 - Report of findings; recommendations; consultation with individual, Department, local department, children's residential facility, or child-placing agency; publication of adverse report; notice of actions; information provided to complainant; child fatality investigation; report
- Section 2.2-448 - Penalty for filing complaint or cooperating in investigation prohibited
- Section 2.2-449 - [Repealed]