California Department of Justice Report

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

AGENCY REPORT2011 BUREAU OF CRIMINAL INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS

As a member of the Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect (ICAN) Data/Information Sharing Committee, the California Department of Justice (DOJ) provides the following information for the 2011 ICAN Report. The statistics used for this report are from calendar year 2010.

CHILD ABUSE CENTRAL INDEX FACT employment, licensing or placement of a SHEET child. The DOJ is mandated to maintain an For additional information about the index of all California reports of child abuse CACI, please go to the California Attorney and severe neglect pursuant to Penal Code General’s website at: section 11170. The Child Abuse Central Index (CACI) was created in 1965 by the www.ag.ca.gov/childabuse. California State Legislature. SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE DOJ Child protection agencies, as defined THROUGH THE CACI INVESTIGATORY in the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting The CACI serves as an investigatory Act (CANRA) Article 2.5 of the Penal Code, tool for child protection and law enforcement are required to report to the DOJ all agencies investigating child abuse and investigated incidents of child abuse and severe neglect allegations by providing severe neglect that have been determined information regarding child abuse reports not to be unfounded. previously submitted to the CACI involving The CACI receives, stores, and the same suspect(s). maintains reports of suspected child abuse All incoming child abuse reports are that have been identified as either searched against the CACI entries to identify substantiated or inconclusive. As of June 1, prior reports of child abuse involving the 2011 the CACI contains approximately listed suspect(s). Additionally, the DOJ 779,036 incident records of child abuse and provides information on an expedited basis 677,971 suspect names. In addition, the to child protection agencies for emergency DOJ has responded to approximately 4,468 child placement and to law enforcement as a Adam Walsh Out-of-State Foster Care and child abuse investigative tool. Adoption requests, 496 Citizen Inquiry requests, 83,777 Expedited requests and REGULATORY 213,713 search requests submitted via The CACI regulatory functions include electronic fingerprint submission. applicant searches for child care facility and The CACI functions as a pointer foster care home licensing or employment, system and provides direction to citizens adoption, guardianship or other child and requesting agencies to the original placement and peace officer employment. investigative file maintained by the reporting Suspect names are searched against the agency. It is the obligation of the requestor CACI to identify prior reports of child abuse. to obtain the original investigative report The DOJ notifies licensing agencies from the reporting agency when making when a new child abuse report is received independent conclusions regarding the and matched to a person that has been quality of the evidence disclosed and its previously licensed to have custodial or relevance for making decisions regarding supervisory authority over a child or children.

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2010 CACI PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS categories include physical abuse, The passage of the Adam Walsh Child mental abuse, severe neglect, and Protection and Safety Act of 2006 expanded sexual abuse. (See Figure 3). access to the CACI to include out-of-state foster care and adoption searches. The CACI processed 4,468 requests in 2010, an average of 372 per month.

2010 CACI DATA – NOTABLE HIGHLIGHTS  During 2010, reporting agencies submitted 22,193 reports to the DOJ for entry into the CACI (See Figure 1).

 Physical abuse is the most prevalent type of abuse reported (9,552) and represents 43% of the total reports entered into CACI. The other types of abuse reported are as follows: sexual abuse 5,708 (26%), mental abuse 5,543 (25%), severe neglect 1,390 (6%).

 Of the 22,193 child abuse reports submitted by child protection and law enforcement agencies 40 identified the death of a child. Of the 40 reports submitted that identified the death of a child, 18 (45%) were submitted by Los Angeles county. (See Figure 2).

 Of the 22,193 child abuse reports submitted 9,579 (43%) were submitted by Los Angeles County. Of these 9,579 reports, 4,014 (42%) consisted of physical abuse; 2,826 (30%) consisted of mental abuse; 2,436 (25%) consisted of sexual abuse, and 303 (3%) consisted of severe neglect.

 From 2006 to 2010, the total number of reports of child abuse entered into the CACI has increased by 3%, from 21,592 in 2006 to 22,193 in 2010. The

INQUIRIES MAY BE DIRECTED TO: California Department of Justice Child Abuse Central Index (CACI) P.O. Box 903387 Sacramento, CA 94203-3870 Phone: (916) 227-3287 Fax: (916) 227-5054 website: www.ag.ca.gov/childabuse

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Figure 1 2011 CHILD ABUSE SUMMARY REPORTS ENTERED IN THE CHILD ABUSE CENTRAL INDEX (CACI) FOR THE PERIOD OF JANUARY 1 - December 31, 2010

County Total Physical Mental Neglect Sexual Deaths* Alameda 400 184 60 33 123 0 Alpine 4 1 0 0 3 0 Amador 8 4 3 0 1 0 Butte 165 71 31 28 35 0 Calaveras 74 35 28 4 7 0 Colusa 3 2 0 0 1 0 Contra Costa 160 82 33 9 36 0 Del Norte 30 21 5 3 1 0 El Dorado 79 22 27 20 10 0 Fresno 453 210 98 26 119 0 Glenn 52 12 24 8 8 0 Humboldt 133 67 36 17 13 0 Imperial 9 4 1 0 4 0 Inyo 39 14 20 0 5 0 Kern 780 384 193 60 143 8 Kings 102 64 5 4 29 0 Lake 19 10 8 0 1 0 Lassen 65 41 3 5 16 0 Los Angeles 9,579 4,014 2,826 303 2,436 18 Madera 113 49 27 2 35 0 Marin 99 41 23 29 6 0 Mariposa 18 6 6 5 1 0 Mendocino 145 61 69 8 7 0 Merced 166 83 35 14 34 0 Modoc 37 16 17 1 3 0 Mono 18 8 8 0 2 0 Monterey 216 104 43 13 56 1 Napa 50 21 11 1 17 0 Nevada 41 20 12 1 8 0 Orange 1,762 756 49 194 763 1 Placer 238 75 122 6 35 0 Plumas 14 1 2 9 2 0 Riverside 632 333 52 60 187 3

Figure 1 (continued) 2011 CHILD ABUSE SUMMARY REPORTS ENTERED IN THE CHILD ABUSE CENTRAL INDEX (CACI) FOR THE PERIOD OF JANUARY 1 - December 31, 2010

County Total Physical Mental Neglect Sexual Deaths* Sacramento 228 121 15 15 77 0 San benito 52 27 12 5 8 0 San bernardino 1,202 440 204 123 435 2 San diego 1,535 455 680 148 252 1 San francisco 210 73 73 4 60 1 San joaquin 552 294 113 6 139 2 San luis obispo 167 77 43 5 42 1 San mateo 229 128 57 16 28 0 Santa barbara 310 133 68 54 55 0 Santa clara 519 305 105 24 85 0 Santa cruz 236 68 112 39 17 0 Shasta 71 29 6 11 25 0 Sierra 2 0 1 0 1 0 Siskiyou 56 16 30 0 10 0 Solano 254 160 29 18 47 0 Sonoma 138 81 31 6 20 0 Stanislaus 272 121 10 17 124 2 Sutter 30 13 17 0 0 0 Tehama 43 18 4 7 14 0 Trinity 24 11 10 2 1 0 Tulare 78 31 3 3 41 0 Tuolumne 26 11 6 4 5 0 Ventura 123 51 17 6 49 0 Yolo 67 40 4 2 21 0 Yuba 66 33 16 12 5 0 Totals 22,193 9,552 5,543 1,390 5,708 40

Percentage 100% 43.04% 24.98% 6.26% 25.72% 0.18%

Figure 3 FIVE – YEAR COMPARISON OF CACI SUBMISSION STATEWIDE CALENDAR YEARS 2005 - 2009

Number of Percentage Types of Change of Change of 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 CACI CACI Abuse/Year Submission Submissions 2006 to 2010 2006 to 2010

Physical 10,381 9,701 9,504 8,240 9,552 -829 -7.99%

Mental/Neglect 5,715 5,975 5,759 4,781 6,933 1,218 21.31%

Sexual 5,496 5,291 5,753 5,186 5,708 212 3.86%

Totals 21,592 20,967 21,016 18,207 22,193 601 2.78%

GLOSSARY OF TERMS abuse or neglect, as defined in Penal Code, CACI: Child Abuse Central Index. § 11165.6.

CANRA: Child Abuse Neglect Reporting Act as specified in Penal Code Section 11164 et. Seq.

Inconclusive: Defined in Penal Code, § 11165.12 (c) “Inconclusive report” means a report that is determined by the investigator, who conducted the investigation not to be unfounded, but the findings are inconclusive and there is insufficient evidence to determine whether child abuse or neglect, as defined in Penal Code, § 11165.6, has occurred. This category was originally termed “unsubstantiated report” and was renamed by Chapter 842 of the Statutes of 1997 and became effective January 1, 1998.

Reporting Agency: Defined by Penal Code, § 11165.9 as a police or sheriff department, a county probation department (if designated by the county to receive mandated reports), or a county welfare department.

Substantiated: Defined in Penal Code, § 11165.12 (b) “Substantiated report” means a report that is determined by the investigator who conducted the investigation to constitute child abuse or neglect, as defined in Penal Code, § 11165.6, based upon evidence that makes it more likely than not that child abuse or neglect, as defined, occurred.

Unfounded: Defined in Penal Code, § 11165.12 (a) “Unfounded report” means a report that is determined by the investigator who conducted the investigation to be false, to be inherently improbable, to involve an accidental injury, or not to constitute child