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Interviews can take place at your home, a CPS office, or your child's daycare or school. The main subject areas that are focused on during a child interview are: What happened during the alleged abuse or neglect incident (or incidents)? whether the child feels safe in their home right now.
While CPS cannot provide you with the reporter's identifying information upon your initial request (unless there is a rare situation where the person making the report waives confidentiality as to their identity in writing), the law provides a more formal way to obtain that information, but only if certain conditions ...
CPS investigators knock on the door (usually unannounced), look in every room of the house, open kitchen cabinets, sometimes inspect children's bodies, and generally look for any evidence of child maltreatment. Yet CPS agencies rarely seek a warrant, and typically act as if that is unnecessary.
The short answer is no. CPS cases and Juvenile dependency cases are not open to the public in California. This is because of the confidential nature of the proceedings.
Our laws require CPS to work under very strict confidentiality rules, for the protection of everybody involved. The workers cannot share information about the report. You can be assured that if the hotline took your report, CPS is responding to the situation.
The reporting individual's identity will be confidential unless they choose to tell you.
What Happens After a CPS Case Is Closed? Once your case is closed, you're no longer under active investigation or monitoring. If no one filed criminal charges, the investigation will typically stay off of your record and background checks.
The law states that CPS will inform the reporter “what action, if any, was taken to protect the health and welfare of the child.” This includes advising the reporter if the report was screened out.