2018 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 22 - Public Schools
Article 5 - Local School Boards
Section 22-5-4.2 - Child abuse; report coordination; confirmation.
A. A local school board may adopt policies providing for the coordination and internal tracking of reports made by school district personnel pursuant to Section 32-1-15 NMSA 1978 [repealed]. Such policies, however, shall not require any notification to school district personnel before the report is made to one of the offices listed in Subsection A of that section. No policy shall purport to relieve any person having a duty to report under that section from that duty.
B. After a report is made to a county social services office of the human services department pursuant to Section 32-1-15 NMSA 1978 [repealed], by any school district personnel, that office shall notify the person making the report within five days after the report was made that the office is investigating the matter. Mailing a notice within five days shall constitute compliance with this subsection.
History: Laws 1985, ch. 94, § 1.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Section 32-1-15 NMSA 1978 was repealed in 1993. For present comparable provisions, see 32A-4-3 NMSA 1978.
