Child Care Custodians

This classification includes teachers; an instructional aide, a teacher's aide, or a teacher's assistant employed by any public or private school, who has been trained in the duties imposed by this article, if the school district has so warranted to the State Department of Education; a classified employee of any public school who has been trained in the duties imposed by this article, if the school has so warranted to the State Department of Education; administrative officers, supervisors of child welfare and attendance, or certificated public personnel employees of any public or private school; administrators of a public or private day camp; administrators and employees of public or private organizations whose duties require direct contact and supervision of children and who have been trained in the duties imposed by this article; licensees, administrators and employees of licensed community care or child day care facilities; headstart teachers; licensing workers or licensing evaluators, public assistance workers' employees of a child care institution including, but not limited to, foster parents, group home personnel, and personnel or residential care facilities; social workers, probation officers, or parole officers; employees of a school district police or security department; any person who is an administrator or a presenter of, or a counselor in, a child abuse prevention program in any public or private school; a district attorney investigator, inspector or family support officer unless the investigator, inspector, or officer is working with an attorney appointed pursuant to section 317 of the Welfare and Institutions Code to represent a minor; or a peace officer, as defined (P.C. 11166.5[a]). School district police or security departments are not child protective agencies.(P.C. 11165.9)

 
Health Practitioners

This classification includes physicians and surgeons, psychiatrists, psychologists, dentists, residents, interns, podiatrists, chiropractors, licensed nurses, dental hygienists, optometrists, marriage, family and child counselors, clinical social workers, or any other person who is currently licensed under Division 2 (commencing with Section 500) of the Business and Professions Code; emergency medical technicians I or II, paramedics, or other persons certified pursuant to Division 2.5 (commencing with Section 1797) of the Health and Safety Code; psychological assistants registered pursuant to Section 2913 of the Business and Professions Code; marriage, family and child counselor trainees as defined in subdivision © of Section 4980.03 of the Business and Professions Code; unlicensed marriage, family, and child counselor interns registered under Section 4980.44 of the Business and Professions Code; state or county public health employees who treat minors for venereal disease or any other condition; coroners; medical examiners, or any other person who performs autopsies (P.C. 11165.8[a-h]).

 
Child Protective Agencies

"Child protective agency" means a police or sheriff's department, a county probation department, or a county welfare department. School district police or security departments are not child protective agencies. (P.C. 11165.9)

 
Commercial Film and Photographic Print Processors

This classification includes any person who develops exposed photographic film into negatives, slides, or prints, or who makes prints from negatives or slides, for compensation. The term includes any employee of such a person; it does not include a person who develops film or makes prints for a public agency. (P.C. 11165.10). Commercial film and photographic print processors must report depictions of a child under age 16 in an act of sexual conduct. (P.C. 11165.10)

 
Child Visitation Monitor

This classification includes any person who, for financial compensation, acts as monitor of a visit between a child and any other person when the monitoring of that visit has been ordered by a court of law. (P.C. 11165.15 and 11166.15)

 
Firefighters, Animal Control Officers or Humane Society Officers

"Animal control officer" means any person employed by a city, county, or city and county for the purpose of enforcing animal control laws or regulations.
"Humane society officer" means any person appointed or employed by a public or private entity as a humane officer who is qualified pursuant to Section 14502 or 14503 of the Corporations Code.

No firefighter, animal control officer, or humane society officer shall be subject to the reporting requirements of this article unless he or she has received training in identification and reporting of child abuse equivalent to that received by teachers and child care custodians. (P.C. 1165.16).

 
Clergy

Beginning January 1, 1997, all clergy members are mandated to report known or suspected instances of child abuse to a child protective agency. Clergy members are exempt from their mandated reporting responsibilities only if the knowledge or reasonable suspicion of child abuse was obtained during a "penitential communication". (P.C.11165.17, P.C.11166 [c2]).

"Penitential communication" means a communication, intended to be in confidence, including, but not limited to, a sacramental confession, made to a clergy member who, in the course of the discipline or practice of his or her church, denomination, or organization, is authorized or accustomed to hear those communications, and under discipline, tenets, customs, or practices of his or her church, denomination, or organization, has a duty to keep those communications secret. (P.C. 11166[c2]).

 
Alcohol Programs

The exemption in effect until 1987 for federally funded alcohol/drug programs has been withdrawn. Today all alcohol/drug programs are required to make appropriate child abuse reports.