19 Guam Code Ann. § 13203
48 hours after the oral report. Oral reports shall be made to Child
Protective Services or to the Guam Police Department. (b) Cross reporting among agencies.
(1) Child Protective Services shall immediately or as soon as practically possible report by telephone to the Guam Police Department and to the Attorney General’s Office every known or suspected instance of child abuse as defined in § 13101, except acts or omissions coming within subsection (t)(4) of § 13101. Child Protective Services shall also send a written report thereof within 48 hours of receiving the information concerning the incident to any agency to which it is required to make a telephone report under this subsection.
(2) The Guam Police Department shall immediately or as soon as practically possible report by telephone Child Protective Services and to the Attorney General’s Office every known or suspected instance of child abuse reported to it, except acts or omissions coming within subsection (t)(4) of § 13101, which shall only be reported to Child Protective Services. However, the Guam Police Department shall report to Child Protective Services every known or suspected instance of child abuse reported to it which is alleged to have occurred as a result of inaction of a person responsible for the child’s welfare to adequately protect the minor from abuse when such person knew or reasonably should have known that the minor was in danger of abuse. The Guam Police Department shall also send a written report thereof within 48 hours of receiving the information concerning the incident to
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any agency to which it is required to make a telephone report under this subsection.
(3) Child Protective Services and the Guam Police Department shall immediately, or as soon as practically possible, report by telephone to the appropriate Department of Defense Family Advocacy Program every known or suspected instance of child abuse reported to them when such report involves active duty military personnel or their dependents.
(c) Contents of report. Reports of child abuse or neglect should contain the following information:
(1) Every report of a known or suspected instance of child abuse should include the name of the person making the report, the name, age and sex of the child, the present location of the child, the nature and extent of injury, and any other information, including information that led that person to suspect child abuse, that may be requested by the child protective agency receiving the report. Persons who report pursuant to § 13202 shall be required to reveal their names;
(2) Other information relevant to the incident of child abuse may also be given to an investigator from a child protective agency who is investigating the known or suspected case of child abuse;
(3) The name of the person or persons responsible for causing the suspected abuse or neglect;
(4) Family composition;
(5) The actions taken by the reporting source, including the taking of photographs and x-rays, removal or keeping of the child or notification of the medical examiner; and
(6) Any other information which the child protective agency may, by regulation, require.
(d) Identity of person reporting. The identity of all persons who report under this Article shall be confidential and disclosed only among child protective agencies, to counsel representing a child protective agency, to the Attorney General’s Office in a
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criminal prosecution or Family Court action, to a licensing agency when abuse in licensed out-of-home care is reasonably suspected, when those persons who report waive confidentiality, or by court order.
(e) Reporting forms. The reporting forms developed pursuant to § 13204 shall be made available to all persons required to report under § 13201.