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Penal Code § 11165.14

ARTICLE 2.5. Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act

Current as of September 28, 2026Pen. Code, § 11165.14Official source ↗

Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 916, Sec. 12. Effective January 1, 2001.

The appropriate local law enforcement agency shall investigate a child abuse complaint filed by a parent or guardian of a pupil with a school or an agency specified in Section 11165.9 against a school employee or other person that commits an act of child abuse, as defined in this article, against a pupil at a schoolsite and shall transmit a substantiated report, as defined in Section 11165.12, of that investigation to the governing board of the appropriate school district or county office of education. A substantiated report received by a governing board of a school district or county office of education shall be subject to the provisions of Section 44031 of the Education Code.