Executive Order 1083
Revised July 21, 2017
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STATEMENT ACKNOWLEDGING REQUIREMENT
TO REPORT CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT
[USE FOR LIMITED REPORTERS ONLY]
INSTRUCTION FOR HUMAN RESOURCES: Provide this form, as well as Attachments A and B of
Executive Order 1083 Revised July 21, 2017, to employees who are identified as Limited Reporters*. Retain
the completed form in the employee’s official personnel file.
*Exception: Non-Management Personnel Plan employees hired prior to January 1, 1985
California law requires certain people, known as “Mandated Reporters,” to report known or suspected
child abuse or neglect. You have been identified as a certain type of Mandated Reporter: a Limited
Reporter under Penal Code § 11165.7(a)(41). As a Mandated Reporter, you are required by the law to sign
this statement acknowledging your legal reporting obligations.
A copy of the relevant provisions of the law explaining the definition of “Mandated Reporter” (Penal Code
§ 11165.7), the reporting obligations (Penal Code § 11166), penalty for failure to report abuse or impeding
report (Penal Code § 11166.01), the contents of the reports, and the confidentiality of the Mandated
Reporter’s identity (Penal Code § 11167) is attached.
Online training is available to you at https://ds.calstate.edu/?svc=skillsoft (under keyword search
“Mandated Reporter”).
While it is not required, we strongly encourage you to take the training.
WHEN REPORTING ABUSE IS REQUIRED
As a Limited Reporter, whenever in your professional capacity or within the scope of your employment
you have knowledge of or observe a person under the age of 18 years whom you know or reasonably
suspect has been the victim of child abuse or neglect on CSU premises or at an official activity of, or
program conducted by, the CSU, you must report the suspected incident (Penal Code §§ 11166(a) and
11165.7(a)(41)).
PROCEDURE FOR REPORTING
To make a report, you must do the following:
· Immediately, or as soon as practically possible, contact by phone one of the following: police or
sheriff’s department (including campus police but not including a school district police or security
department); a county probation department (if designated by the county to receive mandated
reports); or the county welfare department (Child Protective Services or CPS).
· Within 36 hours of receiving the information concerning the incident: complete Form SS 8572
(available online at http://ag.ca.gov/childabuse/pdf/ss_8572.pdf) per the instructions (available
online at http://ag.ca.gov/childabuse/pdf/8572_instruct.pdf); and send, fax or electronically
transmit it to the agency that was contacted by phone (Penal Code § 11166(a)).
Names and contact information for agencies that can accept reports are available online at the following
websites: