2019 Arkansas Code
Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs
Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs
Chapter 18 - Child Maltreatment Act
Subchapter 8 - Administrative Hearings
§ 12-18-808. Notice of Juvenile Division Circuit Court Proceedings
(a) The Department of Human Services and the Department of Arkansas State Police shall notify the administrative law judge and the petitioner of the status of any juvenile division of circuit court proceeding involving the victim if child maltreatment at issue in the administrative hearing proceeding is also an issue in the juvenile division of circuit court proceeding.
(b) Notice from the Department of Human Services and the Department of Arkansas State Police under this section shall also include whether the Department of Human Services exercised a seventy-two-hour hold on the victim and released the child or if the Department of Human Services or division of circuit court dismissed a petition for emergency custody or dependency-neglect.