---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 81.4"
title: "28"
number: "81.4"
heading: "Referral of reports where the designated agency is not a law enforcement agency."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/81.4"
---

# §81.4. Referral of reports where the designated agency is not a law enforcement agency.


Where a report of child abuse received by a designated agency that is not a law enforcement agency involves allegations of sexual abuse, serious physical injury, or life-threatening neglect of a child, that agency shall immediately report such occurrence to a law enforcement agency with authority to take emergency action to protect the child.


## Notes

### Source

Source: AG Order No. 6090-2024, 89 FR 92802, Nov. 25, 2024

### Authority

Authority: 28 U.S.C. 509, 510; 42 U.S.C. 13031, 13032.

### Source

Source: Order No. 2009-96, 61 FR 7706, Feb. 29, 1996, unless otherwise noted.