Reporting Child Abuse - Nebraska

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Nebraska

Under Nebraska law, certain individuals (including doctors and health care professionals, teachers and school employees, social workers and the inspector gneral) and any other person who knows of or suspects child abuse or neglect is required to immediately report the abuse or neglect to a law enforcement agency or to the department of health and human services on the child abuse hotline. Any oral report is required to be followed by a written report of the abuse or neglect.

To access the entire child abuse reporting chapter in the official Nebraska Code online, sections 28-710 through28-739 follow:

http://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/browse-chapters.php?chapter=28

To access the specific sections summarized above in the official Nebraska Code online, including any relevant definitions, follow:

http://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=28-710

http://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=28-711

For more information on reporting child abuse and spotting abuse and neglect in Nebraska, visit the Nebraska department of health and human services website at:

http://dhhs.ne.gov/children_family_services/Pages/nea_cha_chaindex.aspx

http://dhhs.ne.gov/children_family_services/Pages/nea_cha_abuse.aspx

Child Abuse & Neglect Hotline

1-800-652-1999