Penal Code §11166 (Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act) mandated reporter status applies to certain professionals. With respect to security guards, the statute generally:

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Does not by its general terms include private security guards in the mandated-reporter list, although a guard working in a school, daycare, or similar setting may be a mandated reporter through that role; guards should always voluntarily report child abuse to police

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Makes every BSIS-registered security guard an automatic mandated reporter, so that a guard who fails to report suspected child abuse within 36 hours commits a misdemeanor under the Act

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Imposes a mandatory reporting duty on any guard, anywhere, who witnesses any crime involving a minor, with the report going to the county child-welfare agency rather than to the police department that would ordinarily take it

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Replaces the police investigation with an internal security investigation, so that the guard's employer interviews the child and the family and forwards only its own written findings to the county

Penal Code §11166 (Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act) mandated reporter status applies to certain professionals. With respect to security guards, the statute generally:

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