Bill Text: NJ S1400 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides DYFS caseworkers with personnel and law enforcement assistance when conducting DYFS investigations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-11 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [S1400 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-S1400-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 1400

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 11, 2010

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  LORETTA WEINBERG

District 37 (Bergen)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Provides DYFS caseworkers with personnel and law enforcement assistance when conducting DYFS investigations.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning Division of Youth and Family Services caseworkers and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the manager of a Division of Youth and Family Services district office may, at the request of a division caseworker or supervisor or if circumstances warrant:

     a.     assign a team of two or more caseworkers to investigate a report, complaint or allegation of child abuse or neglect or conduct a home visit of a child under the division's care; or

     b.    make a request to a law enforcement authority that law enforcement personnel accompany a caseworker during an investigation of a report, complaint or allegation of child abuse or neglect or while conducting a home visit of a child under the division's care.

 

     2.    The Commissioner of Children and Families shall adopt rules and regulations, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), to effectuate the purposes of this act.

 

     3.    This act shall take effect on the 180th day following enactment, but the Commissioner of Children and Families may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for the implementation of the act.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill permits a Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) district office manager, at the request of a DYFS caseworker or supervisor or if circumstances warrant, to:

     (1)   assign a team of two or more caseworkers to investigate a

            report, complaint or allegation of child abuse or neglect or

            conduct a home visit of a child under DYFS' care; or

     (2)   make a request to a law enforcement authority that law

            enforcement personnel accompany a caseworker during an

            investigation of a report, complaint or allegation of child

     `      abuse or neglect or while conducting a home visit of a child

            under DYFS' care.