§ 257.01 — Records Required
Plain-Language Summary
This section requires every person or child-placing agency that cares for children to keep detailed records about each child, including the child's name, age, health records, the birth parents' information, and the history of all placements.
257.01 RECORDS REQUIRED.
Each person or authorized child-placing agency permitted by law to receive children, secure homes for children, or care for children, shall keep a record containing the name, age, former residence, legal status, health records, sex, race, and accumulated length of time in foster care, if applicable, of each child received; the name, former residence, occupation, health history, and character, of each birth parent; the date of reception, placing out, and adoption of each child, and the name, race, occupation, and residence of the person with whom a child is placed; the date of the removal of any child to another home and the reason for removal; the date of termination of the guardianship; the history of each child until the child reaches the age of 21 years, is legally adopted, or is discharged according to law; and further demographic and other information as is required by the commissioner of children, youth, and families.
History:
(4560) Ex1919 c 51 s 1; 1951 c 644 s 1; 1973 c 725 s 47; 1983 c 278 s 1; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1986 c 444; 1994 c 631 s 31; 2012 c 216 art 6 s 1; 2024 c 80 art 8 s 70
History: History: (4560) Ex1919 c 51 s 1; 1951 c 644 s 1; 1973 c 725 s 47; 1983 c 278 s 1; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1986 c 444; 1994 c 631 s 31; 2012 c 216 art 6 s 1; 2024 c 80 art 8 s 70