1. (a) Pursuant to Acts 1997, No. 1240, the Department of Human Services and the Division of Arkansas State Police entered into an agreement for the Crimes Against Children Division to assume responsibility for the administration of the Child Abuse Hotline.

2. (b)

   1. (1) All child maltreatment allegations are to be reported to the Child Abuse Hotline.
   2. (2) No privilege or contract shall prevent anyone from reporting child maltreatment when the person is a mandated reporter (see 9 CAR § 40-102, definitions, for more information).
3. (c) No privilege shall prevent anyone, except between a client and his or her lawyer or minister or Christian Scientist practitioner, and any person confessing to or being counseled by the minister, from testifying concerning child maltreatment.

4. (d)

   1. (1) The Child Abuse Hotline must accept reports of alleged maltreatment when either the child or his or her family is present in Arkansas or the incident occurred in Arkansas.
   2. (2) Another state may also conduct an investigation in Arkansas that results in the offender being named in a true report in that state and placed in that state’s child maltreatment central registry.

Codification Notes: This section as promulgated prior to codification into the Code of Arkansas Rules provided as follows: "01/2020"