[Snugglebug]

There is new legislation effective January 1, 2006 that allows caregivers to leave foster children/ dependent children of the Court with a short-term baby-sitter without requiring fingerprinting. Short-term is defined as no more than a consecutive 24 hour period.

I got this in an email from my cw today and thought you guys might be interested. We are in CA and I don't know if it applies to other states or just us.

[oldenough]

In our state (Montana) I was really surprised to find that we could leave anyone with our children...anyone we would trust, of course. They just said to use our best judgement, etc. I thought it was a little strange...it wasn't like that anywhere else.

[healingmachine]

Wow! That must be nice. Obviously we wouldn't leave the children with someone we didn't trust. Here in Ohio I was told that anyone who watched the child, even for five minutes, had to be fingerprinted. Furthermore, if it's in that person's house, then every adult in the house has to be fingerprinted as well.


It seems a bit crazy and it's too bad because I want my mom to be fingerprinted and I know my dad won't do it. That means the little ones can't go to Grammy's house. And we live near downtown so it's hard to get Grammy over here. It's a lose-lose situation.

Good news for CA though!

[NCnewMom]

In our state (North Carolina) we can also leave them with anyone we trust short- term. The SW wants to know if it is overnight, but we can still choose the people. I think they need to be fingerprinted if it will be more than 48 hours. (?)