(a) The Department of Human Services and the Department of Arkansas State Police shall notify the administrative law judge and the petitioner of the status of any juvenile division of circuit court proceeding involving the victim if child maltreatment at issue in the administrative hearing proceeding is also an issue in the juvenile division of circuit court proceeding.(b) Notice from the Department of Human Services and the Department of Arkansas State Police under this section shall also include whether the Department of Human Services exercised a seventy-two-hour hold on the victim and released the child or if the Department of Human Services or division of circuit court dismissed a petition for emergency custody or dependency-neglect.Amended by Act 2015, No. 1004,§ 26, eff. 7/22/2015.Acts 2009, No. 749, § 1.
Arkansas Legal Code