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United States — Arizona
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This section creates the court appointed special advocate program, requires local programs in each county, and lets the supreme court set rules and hire staff needed to run and monitor it.
United States — Arizona
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The fund is created for special advocate and vulnerable-persons purposes, is subject to annual legislative appropriation, and the supreme court must use appropriated money for the listed program and court functions. A court may request fund money by submitting a program plan and funding request.
United States — Arizona
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This section says certain dependency, guardianship, and parental-rights proceedings are generally open to the public, but the court can close them for good cause after considering listed factors.
United States — Arizona
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The department must publish child welfare program and outcomes data and make several reports available on set schedules.
United States — Arizona
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The department must publish specified missing-children reporting information every six months and notify certain state officials when it does.
United States — Arizona
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The agency, division, and Arizona health care cost containment system administration must make every reasonable effort not to remove a child in out-of-home care from school during regular school hours for non-school appointments, visitations, or activities.
United States — Arizona
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This section sets the steps for handling a newborn left with a safe haven provider, church, or certain agencies, including hospital transport, reporting, custody transfer, and some 24-hour and 48-hour deadlines.
United States — Arizona
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Children in foster care and kinship foster care have listed rights to care, placement, privacy, education, services, participation, and complaint protection; the department must provide rights information and help.
United States — Arizona
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This section gives foster parents and kinship foster care parents in the state a set of rights, and requires the department to provide information and help enforcing them.
United States — Arizona
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The department must notify prior foster homes and, when possible, place the child back in a foster home where the child previously lived, giving preference to the most recent placement.
United States — Arizona
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The board and the department must jointly file an annual report with the joint legislative budget committee by February 1.
United States — Arizona
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Parties, counsel, and the court must follow the chapter’s procedural time limits. Extensions and continuances are tightly limited, and the court can sanction a party if delay was caused by a disclosure violation or lack of due diligence.
United States — Arizona
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This section requires a quick best-interest placement decision for a child in foster care, and it requires transportation, immediate enrollment, and timely transfer of education records when a change of school is needed.
United States — Arizona
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The child safety and education departments must create a written arbitration process for transportation disputes and ensure transportation continues in certain cases until the dispute is resolved.
United States — Arizona
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The department must set up policies for random quarterly drug screening of group foster home employees; employees cannot have child contact before an initial screening; and the home must send screening results to the department within 48 hours. The department may also screen an employee after an accident or incident in
United States — Arizona
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The department must create and implement policies by December 31, 2025 to help certain young adults leaving its care access safe and secure housing, and it must file a report on those policies.
United States — Arizona
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The department must make and document a child placement plan after a child enters congregate care, and must visit a group home quickly in medically complex child cases.
United States — Arizona
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A DCS caseworker visiting a child at school for an interview must show department identification, and if that cannot be provided, must give the school the department office contact information. The school may not keep a record of the caseworker’s personal identifying information, but may keep a record of the department
United States — Arizona
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This section defines terms used in the article, including abandonment, child, custody, guardian ad litem, and guardianship of the person.
United States — Arizona
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A child receiving Christian Science treatment in good faith from a duly accredited practitioner cannot be treated as abused, neglected, or dependent for that reason alone.