Chapter 4.4 Office of the Children's Ombudsman
This chapter is comprised of the following sections:
- §2.2-438 Definitions
- §2.2-439 Children’s Ombudsman; establishment; appointment; removal
- §2.2-440 Procedures; training; notification of safety concerns.
- §2.2-441 Individuals making complaint to Children’s Ombudsman
- §2.2-442 Children’s Ombudsman; powers and duties
- §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
- §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
- §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
- §2.2-446 Confidentiality of record of Children’s Ombudsman; disclosure; limitations; release of certain information
- §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
- §2.2-448 Penalty for filing complaint or cooperating in investigation prohibited
- §2.2-449 Repealed