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Panel hears bill to define child-protection investigator and reunification specialist roles
Summary
Senate Bill 206 would codify separate child-protection investigator and child‑reunification specialist roles; the department said many regions already separate duties but rural staffing limits and potential fiscal needs were raised.
Senate Public Health Committee took testimony on Senate Bill 206, introduced in the Senate by Sen. Dennis Lenz on behalf of Sen. Fuller. The bill would define and codify the roles of a child-protection investigator and a child-reunification specialist in state law and set where the roles are described in statute.
Sen. Dennis Lenz told the committee the intent is to create a clearer separation between the person who conducts an investigation and the person who works on reunification, so parents removed from their children do not have to engage with the same worker who completed the removal. “What I'm trying to do with this . . . is not put…
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