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Work group proposes narrowing 'threatened harm' and limiting third‑party investigations in LC 266
Summary
Daniel Mulkey presented the Family Justice Work Group’s recommendations in LC 266, proposing to tighten Oregon’s 'threatened harm' standard to imminent and severe harm, raise substantiation standards to align with service consequences, narrow adult third‑party investigative jurisdiction to caregiving nexus, and allow alternative/differential responses for minors.
Daniel Mulkey, chief of staff for Representative Anessa Hartman, told the committee that the Family Justice and Child Welfare Reform Work Group reviewed Oregon’s child‑welfare practices and identified four interrelated policy changes in Legislative Concept 266.
Mulkey said Oregon records substantially higher referral and screening rates than the national average and highlighted what the work group describes as an ‘‘overextension’’ of CPS investigative authority since Senate Bill 155 in 2021. He said…
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