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Michigan Statutes, Title 722

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Title 722, CHILDREN

56 chapters · 506 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 722506 Ch 116-of-1973, CHILD CARE ORGANIZATIONS76 Ch 195-of-2001, UNIFORM CHILD-CUSTODY JURISDICTION A…41 Ch 238-of-1975, CHILD PROTECTION LAW40 Ch 33-of-1978, DISSEMINATING, EXHIBITING, OR DISPLA…24 Ch 203-of-1994, FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION SERVICES ACT24 Ch 205-of-1956, THE PATERNITY ACT23 Ch 24-of-2024, ASSISTED REPRODUCTION AND SURROGACY …22 Ch 91-of-1970, CHILD CUSTODY ACT OF 197019 Ch 260-of-2008, GUARDIANSHIP ASSISTANCE ACT14 Ch 204-of-1994, OFFICE OF THE CHILD ADVOCATE ACT13 Ch 250-of-1982, CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT PREVENTION ACT13 Ch 366-of-2014, SUMMARY SUPPORT AND PATERNITY ACT13 Ch 124-of-2024, COURT-APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ACT12 Ch 305-of-1996, ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PARENTAGE ACT12

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.621 Short title.
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Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "child protection law".
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.622 Definitions.
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Sec. 2. As used in this act: (a) "Adult foster care location authorized to care for a child" means an adult foster care family home or adult foster care small group home as defined in section 3 of the adult foster care facility licensing act, 1979 PA 218, MCL 400.703, in which a …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.623 Individual required to report child abuse or neglect; report by telephone or online reporting system; written report; contents; transmitting report to centralized intake; copies to prosecuting attorney and probate court; conditions requiring transmission of report to law enforcement agency; pregnancy or presence of sexually transmitted infection in child less than 12 years of age; exposure to or contact with methamphetamine production.
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Sec. 3. (1) An individual is required to report under this act as follows: (a) A physician, dentist, physician's assistant, registered dental hygienist, medical examiner, nurse, person licensed to provide emergency medical care, audiologist, psychologist, physical therapist, phys…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.623a Knowledge or suspicion of alcohol, controlled substance, or metabolite of controlled substance in body of newborn infant; report required; exception.

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Sec. 3a. In addition to the reporting requirement in section 3, a person who is required to report suspected child abuse or neglect under section 3(1) and who knows, or from the child's symptoms has reasonable cause to suspect, that a newborn infant has any amount of alcohol, a c…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.623b Comprehensive training materials; availability.

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Sec. 3b. (1) The department shall, in consultation with the Michigan domestic and sexual violence prevention and treatment board and the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence, create comprehensive training materials for individuals who are required to report susp…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.624 Persons permitted to report child abuse or neglect.

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Sec. 4. In addition to those persons required to report child abuse or neglect under section 3, any person, including a child, who has reasonable cause to suspect child abuse or neglect may report the matter to the department or a law enforcement agency.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.625 Identity of reporting person; confidentiality; disclosure; immunity; good faith presumed.

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Sec. 5. Except for records available under section 7(1)(a), (b), and (n), the identity of a reporting person is confidential subject to disclosure only with the consent of that person or by judicial process. A person acting in good faith who makes a report, cooperates in an inves…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.626 Detention of child in temporary protective custody; preliminary hearing; examinations; report; medical evaluation.

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Sec. 6. (1) If a child suspected of being abused or neglected is admitted to a hospital or brought to a hospital for outpatient services and the attending physician determines that the release of the child would endanger the child's health or welfare, the attending physician shal…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.627 Availability of confidential record; closed court proceeding not required; release of reports compiled by law enforcement agency; information obtained by citizen review panel; release or inspection of documents from another agency or organization; sharing of information or records.

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Sec. 7. (1) Unless made public as specified information released under section 7d, a written report, document, or photograph filed with the department as provided in this act is a confidential record available only to 1 or more of the following: (a) A legally mandated public or p…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.627a Availability of information, reports, and records to legislature; disclosure of or keeping confidential information as misdemeanor.

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Sec. 7a. (1) The department shall make information contained in the central registry and reports and records made pursuant to this act available to a standing or select committee or appropriations subcommittee of either house of the legislature having jurisdiction over protective…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.627b Child fatality review team; membership; review of child fatality; training and orientation; creation of advisory committee; review by citizen review panel; annual report; transmission of report to governor and legislature; disclosure of information; member of review team as member for purposes of MCL 691.1407; registry of statistical information regarding children's deaths.

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Sec. 7b. (1) Each county may have in place a standing child fatality review team. Two or more counties may appoint a single child fatality review team for those counties. The membership of a child fatality review team shall consist of at least all of the following: (a) A county m…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.627c Release of information from child protective services records or case in which child has died; decision by director; determination.

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Sec. 7c. (1) Sections 7d to 7i govern the director's decisions to release specified information from child protective services records. (2) The director shall release specified information in a child abuse or neglect case in which a child who was a part of the case has died. (3) …

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.627d Release of information by director; preliminary decision to release or deny information; extension of time period; evidence.

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Sec. 7d. (1) Subject to sections 7c to 7i, at the director's initiative or upon written request, the director may release specified information. If a written request for specified information is submitted to the department, the director must make a preliminary decision to release…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.627e Release of information by director; prohibitions.

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Sec. 7e. (1) The director shall not deny a request for specified information under section 7d based upon a desire to shield a lack of or an inappropriate performance by the department. (2) Regardless of the director's determination that specified information may be released under…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.627f Release of information by director; preliminary decision to release or deny request; notice; final decision; writing; right to appeal.

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Sec. 7f. (1) Not less than 14 days before specified information is released or within 14 days after making a decision to deny a request for release of specified information under section 7d, the director shall give notice as provided in this subsection and section 7g of a prelimi…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.627g Release of information by director; individuals to be notified; Wyatt's law.

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Sec. 7g. (1) If the director decides to release specified information under section 7d, the department must give each notice required under section 7f to each of the following: (a) Each person named in the report as a perpetrator or an alleged perpetrator of the child abuse or ch…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.627h Appeal of director's decision.

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Sec. 7h. (1) Before the release of specified information under section 7d and except as provided in section 7g, an individual required to be notified under section 7g may appeal the director's decision to the circuit court. If an appeal is filed and the department notified before…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.627i Fee; federal assurances and waivers.

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Sec. 7i. (1) The department may charge a fee for a copy of specified information released under section 7d in the same manner that a public body is authorized to charge a fee under section 4 of the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.234. (2) Sections 7c to 7i shall n…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.627j Statewide electronic case management system; classification of confirmed cases; placement on central registry; motion for removal; notification; requirements; request for amendment of report; hearing; expungement; death of perpetrator; receipt of central registry placement confirmation; automated systems; search of children's protective services records.

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Sec. 7j. (1) The department must maintain a statewide, electronic case management system to carry out the intent of this act. The department may enter into vendor contracts that it considers necessary and proper for implementation, review, and update of the electronic case manage…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.627k Death of child under court jurisdiction; notification to legislator and child advocate.

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Sec. 7k. (1) If a child dies who is under the court's jurisdiction under section 2(b) of chapter XIIA of the probate code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL 712A.2, the department shall provide notification in writing or electronically not later than 1 business day to the court that had j…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.627l Statewide electronic case management system; administrative review for expungement.

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Sec. 7l. (1) An individual who is listed on the central registry before the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section may submit a request to the department for an administrative review for the expungement of the individual's name from the statewide electronic …

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.628 Referring report or commencing investigation; informing parent or legal guardian of investigation; duties of department; assistance of and cooperation with law enforcement officials; procedures; procedures by prosecuting attorney; cooperation of school or other institution; information as to disposition of report; request to amend report; exception to reporting requirement; surrender of newborn; training of employees in rights of children and families; determination of open friend of the court case.

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Sec. 8. (1) Within 24 hours after receiving a report made under this act, the department must refer the report to the prosecuting attorney and the local law enforcement agency if the report meets the requirements of subsection (3)(a), (b), or (c) or section 3(6) or (9) or must co…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.628a Execution of notices by prosecuting attorney of individuals bound over to circuit court for certain crimes; notification upon final disposition; confidentiality.

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Sec. 8a. (1) If an individual is bound over to circuit court for any of the following crimes, the prosecuting attorney shall execute the notices as prescribed by subsections (2) to (5): (a) Criminal sexual conduct in the first, second, or third degree in violation of section 520b…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.628b Referral of case to prosecuting attorney; review.

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Sec. 8b. (1) If a case involves a child's death, serious physical harm of a child, or sexual abuse or sexual exploitation of a child, the department must refer the case to the prosecuting attorney for the county in which the child is located. The prosecuting attorney must review …

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.628c Interview with child.

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Sec. 8c. During an investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect, the child reported to have been abused or neglected shall not be interviewed in the presence of an individual suspected to have perpetrated the abuse.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.628d Categories and departmental response.

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Sec. 8d. (1) For the department's determination required by section 8, the categories, and the departmental response required for each category, are the following: (a) Category V - services not needed. Following a field investigation, the department determines that there is no ev…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.628e Investigation checklist.

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Sec. 8e. (1) The department shall implement an investigation checklist to be used in each investigation of suspected abuse and neglect handled by the department. (2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), an investigation shall not be closed until the checklist described in subsecti…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.629 Multidisciplinary services; biennial report; continuing education programs; dissemination of information.

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Sec. 9. (1) The department, in discharging its responsibilities under this act, shall provide, directly or through the purchase of services from other agencies and professions, multidisciplinary services such as those of a pediatrician, psychologist, psychiatrist, public health n…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.629a Annual report.

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Sec. 9a. The agency within the department that is responsible for administering and providing services under this act must make an annual comprehensive report to the legislature that includes at least all of the following: (a) Statistical information including at least all of the…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.630 Lawyer-guardian ad litem.

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Sec. 10. In each case filed under this act in which judicial proceedings are necessary, the court shall appoint a lawyer-guardian ad litem to represent the child. A lawyer-guardian ad litem represents the child and has powers and duties in relation to that representation as set f…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.631 Privileged communications.

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Sec. 11. Any legally recognized privileged communication except that between attorney and client or that made to a member of the clergy in his or her professional character in a confession or similarly confidential communication is abrogated and shall not constitute grounds for e…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.632 Report to law enforcement officials or probate court.

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Sec. 12. This act shall not prohibit a person who has reasonable cause to suspect child abuse or neglect from making a report to the appropriate law enforcement officials or probate court.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.632a Investigations by hospital, school, or other agency.

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Sec. 12a. This act does not preclude or hinder a hospital, school, or other agency from investigating reported claims of child abuse or neglect by its employees or from taking disciplinary action based upon that investigation against its employees.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.632b Task force on prevention of sexual abuse of children; creation; appointment; qualifications; officer; meetings; recommendations; consultation; compensation; abolishment; child excused from participating in information-gathering efforts.

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Sec. 12b. (1) The task force on the prevention of sexual abuse of children is created within the department. (2) The governor shall appoint members to the task force in consultation with the department. The appointment of members must reflect the geographic diversity of this stat…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.633 Failure to report suspected child abuse or neglect; damages; violation as misdemeanor; unauthorized dissemination of information as misdemeanor; civil liability; maintaining report or record required to be expunged as misdemeanor; false report of child abuse or neglect.

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Sec. 13. (1) A person who is required by this act to report an instance of suspected child abuse or neglect and who fails to do so is civilly liable for the damages proximately caused by the failure. (2) A person who is required by this act to report an instance of suspected chil…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.634 Religious beliefs.

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Sec. 14. A parent or guardian legitimately practicing his religious beliefs who thereby does not provide specified medical treatment for a child, for that reason alone shall not be considered a negligent parent or guardian. This section shall not preclude a court from ordering th…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.635 Repeal of MCL 722.571 to 722.575.

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Sec. 15. Act No. 98 of the Public Acts of 1964, being sections 722.571 to 722.575 of the Compiled Laws of 1970, is repealed.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.636 Effective date.

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Sec. 16. This act shall take effect October 1, 1975.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.637 Submission of petition for authorization under MCL 712A.2; exception.

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Sec. 17. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), within 24 hours after the department determines that a child was severely physically injured as defined in section 8, sexually abused, or allowed to be exposed to or have contact with methamphetamine production, the department sh…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.638 Submission of petition for authorization under MCL 712A.2; conditions; request for termination of parental rights; conference.

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Sec. 18. (1) The department shall submit a petition for authorization by the court under section 2(b) of chapter XIIA of 1939 PA 288, MCL 712A.2, if 1 or more of the following apply: (a) The department determines that a parent, guardian, or custodian, or a person who is 18 years …