Establishment and Maintenance of Central Registries for Child Abuse or Neglect Reports - Michigan

Establishment

Citation: Comp. Laws § 722.627j

The Department of Human Services must maintain a statewide, electronic case management system.

Purpose

Citation: Comp. Laws §§ 722.622

The central registry shall be a repository of names of individuals who are identified as perpetrators related to a central registry case.

Contents

Citation: Comp. Laws § 722.622

'Central registry' means a repository of names of individuals who are identified as perpetrators related to a central registry case in the department's statewide electronic case management system.

'Central registry case' means the department confirmed that a person responsible for the child's health or welfare committed serious abuse or neglect, sexual abuse, or sexual exploitation of a child or allowed a child to be exposed to or have contact with methamphetamine production.

Maintenance

Citation: Comp. Laws § 722.628(11)

The department must enter each report under this act that is the subject of a field investigation into the electronic case management system. The department shall maintain a report entered on the electronic case management system as required by this subsection until the child about whom the investigation is made is age 18 or until 10 years after the investigation was commenced, whichever is later, or if the case is classified as a central registry case until the department receives reliable information that the perpetrator of the child abuse or child neglect is dead.