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     257.0725 Annual report. 

    The commissioner of human services shall publish an annual 
 report on child maltreatment and on children in out-of-home 
 placement.  The commissioner shall confer with counties, child 
 welfare organizations, child advocacy organizations, the courts, 
 and other groups on how to improve the content and utility of 
 the department's annual report.  In regard to child 
 maltreatment, the report shall include the number and kinds of 
 maltreatment reports received and any other data that the 
 commissioner determines is appropriate to include in a report on 
 child maltreatment.  In regard to children in out-of-home 
 placement, the report shall include, by county and statewide, 
 information on legal status, living arrangement, age, sex, race, 
 accumulated length of time in placement, reason for most recent 
 placement, race of family with whom placed, and other 
 information deemed appropriate on all children in out-of-home 
 placement.  Out-of-home placement includes placement in any 
 facility by an authorized child-placing agency. 

    HIST: 1988 c 689 art 2 s 216; 1996 c 416 s 9; 1Sp2001 c 9 art 
 11 s 4; 2002 c 379 art 1 s 113 

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