The Idaho Child Protection Central Registry is a list of individuals who have been substantiated for child abuse, neglect, or abandonment. The criteria and guidelines for an incident to be substantiated is in Idaho Administrative Rule. The Child Protection Central Registry is maintained to protect children and vulnerable adults from individuals who have previously been substantiated for abuse, neglect, or abandonment of children.
The information in the Child Protection Abuse Registry is held confidential and is only disclosed with your consent, as in the situation where you are seeking certain types of employment involving direct contact with children, vulnerable adults, or when required by Idaho law.
Substantiated incidents
Based on Idaho Administrative rule, a family services worker will substantiate an incident when one or more of the following apply:
- The family services worker witnessed the abuse or neglect
- The Child Protective Court determines the child falls under the Child Protective Act due to abuse, neglect, or abandonment
- The individual admits or confesses to the abuse, neglect or abandonment
- Physical or medical evidence establishes abuse, neglect, or abandonment has occurred
- The facts of the assessment establish more likely than not the abuse, neglect or abandonment happened
If none of the above apply, then the incident is unsubstantiated.
When an incident is substantiated it is also assigned a level depending on the severity of the abuse, neglect or abandonment. Levels determine the length of time an individual must remain on the registry before they can request to be removed.
Requesting removal from the Child Protection Central Registry
Removal instructions in Spanish
Appealing a substantiated decision Summary
A Client receives notice that they have a substantiated disposition based on the facts of the case. They write a letter saying they do not agree. The letter starts the appeal process.
We pull up the assessment associated with the disposition redact it and send it to the client. They have 14 days to submit additional documentation to be considered in their appeal.
We have a local designee complete the first level review, then a second level review is done at the statewide level for quality assurance, then the response is sent to client.
If the response is to “reverse the decision to substantiate” the record is updated to show the disposition is unsubstantiated. This means the individual’s name is not entered on the registry.
If the decision is to uphold the decision to substantiate, the client has an opportunity to take their appeal to the next step which is a Fair Hearing with the Office of Administrative Hearings.
This is a brief overview please see below for additional information.
In depth Appeal Process
