Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 16 > Chapter 49 - Natural Food Substances

• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Baby: means a child not more than 14 days old, except that for a safe haven under § 907A(b) of this title and the safe haven's employees and volunteers, "baby" means a child reasonably believed to be not more than 14 days old. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Child: means any person who has not reached that person's own eighteenth birthday. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Death: means the loss of life of a child. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Department: means the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Director: means the Director of the Division of Family Services or the Director of the Division of Management Support Services of the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Division: means the Division of Family Services of the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Family assessment and services: means a case management approach by the Division of Family Services that provides for a prompt assessment of a child and the child's family and the circumstances of the reported incident, including the known history of the child or the alleged perpetrator, when there has been a report to the Department that the child was a victim of abuse or neglect, or at risk of maltreatment by a person responsible for that child's care, custody or control. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• Human trafficking: means as defined in § 787 of Title 11. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Institutional child abuse or neglect: means as defined in § 901 of Title 10. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Internal information system: means the Department's system of maintaining information related to all reports of abuse, neglect, investigations, family assessments, services and other relevant information. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Investigation: means the collection of evidence in response to a report of abuse, neglect, or risk of maltreatment of a child by a person responsible for that child's care, custody or control in order to determine if a child has been abused, neglected, or is at risk of maltreatment. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Investigation Coordinator: means an attorney licensed to practice law in this State employed by the Office of the Child Advocate, who is authorized to independently track each reported case of alleged child abuse or neglect within the Department's internal information system and who is responsible for monitoring each reported case involving the death of, serious physical injury to, or allegations of sexual abuse of a child from inception to final criminal and civil disposition. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Multidisciplinary case: means a comprehensive investigation by the multidisciplinary team for any child abuse or neglect report involving death, serious physical injury, physical injury, human trafficking of a child, torture or sexual abuse, which if true, would constitute a criminal violation against a child, or an attempt to commit any such crime, even if no crime is ever charged. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Multidisciplinary team: means a combination of the following entities as required by law to investigate or monitor multidisciplinary cases: the Division, the Department's Institutional Abuse Investigation Unit, the appropriate law-enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, and the Investigation Coordinator. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Near death: means a child in serious or critical condition as a result of child abuse or neglect as certified by a physician. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Neglect: means as defined in § 901 of Title 10. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Physical injury: means as defined in § 1100 of Title 11. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Registry: means a collection of information as described in Subchapter II of this chapter about persons who have been substantiated for abuse or neglect as provided in Subchapter II of this chapter or who were substantiated between August 1, 1994, and February 1, 2003. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Report: means the communication of an allegation of child abuse or neglect to the Department pursuant to § 903 or § 905 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Serious physical injury: means as defined in § 1100 of Title 11. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
• Sexual abuse: means as defined in § 901 of Title 10. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902