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Employee investigations should be conducted objectively, with privacy and confidentiality that meets the public expectation for accountability. The investigating region is responsible for all notifications set forth in this standard of practice (SOP).
Child Protective Service (CPS) Investigations:
Procedures for employee investigations are utilized when a report is received where an employee or an employee’s household member is in a caretaking role or non-caretaking role if the allegations involve human trafficking or female genital mutilation and:
- Is an alleged perpetrator in a CPS referral; or
- Resides in the home where a CPS incident allegedly occurred.
Adult Protective Service (APS) Investigations:
Procedures for APS employee investigations are utilized when a referral is received and a DCBS employee is identified as an alleged perpetrator in an APS report.
For the purposes of employee investigations, an employee includes employees within the Department for Community Based Services (Department/DCBS) in one of the following divisions:
- The Division of Service Regions (DSR);
- The Division of Prevention and Community Well-Being
- The Division of Family Support (DFS); and
- The Division of Protection and Permanency (DPP).
This includes any individual that works for and/or is contracted to complete work on behalf of any of the four (4) divisions and/or is housed in an office with staff for any of these four (4)) divisions.