Summary:

The Department is amending these rules about notice and review of founded dispositions in child protective services to make permanent changes adopted as temporary rules on October 6, 2011, and change the founded disposition review process which currently exists at the local office level and central office level. These amendments do not change the rights of an individual to have a founded disposition reviewed nor do they change the process by which the individual requests the review. Under these amendments, the Local Office and Central Office CPS Founded Disposition Review Committees make a recommendation (no longer a decision); and the decision making authority that used to be with the committees is now with the Child Welfare program manager or designee at the local office level and the Child Protective Services Program Manager or designee at the central office level. These rules are also being amended to assure their accuracy, integrity, internal consistency, remove outdated language, and identify defined terms.

 

In addition, the above rules may also be changed to reflect new Department terminology and to correct formatting and punctuation.

 

Written comments may be submitted until March 1, 2012  at 5:00 p.m. Written comments may be submitted via e-mail to Annette.Tesch@state.or.us, faxed to 503-373-7032, or mailed to Annette Tesch, Rules Coordinator, DHS - Children, Adults, and Families Division, 500 Summer Street NE, E-48, Salem, Oregon, 97301. The Department provides the same consideration to written comment as it does to any oral or written testimony provided at the public hearing.

 

The Department requests public comment on whether other options should be considered for achieving the rule’s substantive goals while reducing the negative economic impact of the rule on business.