What type of professional occupations are regarded as "mandated reporters" for suspected child abuse or child neglect?
Citation: Penal Code §§ 11166; 11165.7
Mandated reporters include any of the following:
Teachers, teacher's assistants, administrative officers, certificated pupil personnel employees of any public or private school
Administrators and employees of public or private day camps, youth centers, youth recreation programs, or youth organizations
Employees of child care institutions, including, but not limited to, foster parents, group home personnel, and personnel of residential care facilities
Social workers, probation officers, or parole officers
Any person who is an administrator or a counselor in a child abuse prevention program in any public or private school
District attorney investigators, peace officers, firefighters, except for volunteer firefighters
Physicians, surgeons, psychiatrists, psychologists, dentists, licensed nurses, dental hygienists, optometrists, marriage counselors, family and child counselors, clinical social workers
Emergency medical technicians I or II or paramedics
State or county public health employees
Coroners or medical examiners
Commercial film and photographic print processors
Child visitation monitors
Animal control officers or humane society officers
Clergy members, which includes priests, ministers, rabbis, religious practitioners, or similar functionary of a church, temple, or recognized denomination or organization
Any custodian of records of a clergy member
Employees of any police department, county sheriff's department, county probation department, or county welfare department
Employees or volunteers of Court Appointed Special Advocate programs
