Illinois Administrative Code
Title 89 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Part 300 - REPORTS OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT
Section 300.80 - Delegation of the Investigation
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
The Department may delegate the investigation of the child abuse or neglect report to:
a) the local police, sheriff's office, other law enforcement agency, or the State's Attorney, when they are concurrently conducting a criminal investigation of the same incidents and allegations; or
b) a coroner or medical examiner who is investigating the cause of death of a child who may have been the victim of child abuse or neglect; or
c) private social service agencies which had been designated for this purpose by the Department prior to July 1, 1980; or
d) the Department of State Police, when the investigation involves suspected child abuse or neglect perpetrated by State employees acting in their official capacity or in State facilities or institutions.