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Supporting the Act

Overview of the Act

What it does:

Outcome

Implications for Practice in Child Welfare

  • Become familiar with all components of the act
  • Advocate for reauthorization
  • Utilize databases
  • SORNA
  • Child abuse registry
  • Utilize funding allocated to developing safe communities
  • Follow policies and protocols
  • Complete Adam Walsh check
  • Ensure completion of background checks
  • Three tier classification for sex offenders
  • National sex offender registry
  • SORNA
  • Uniformity in national protocols
  • Prevention of child pornography
  • Establishes grants, studies, and programs promoting child and community safety
  • Establishes penalties for crimes committed against minors
  • Additional step when placing children
  • Additional step in licensing process
  • Can be time consuming
  • Can be costly
  • John Walsh hosts America's Most Wanted.
  • The Walsh's founded the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
  • Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act was signed into law on the 25th anniversary of Adam's abduction
  • The Walsh's helped campaign to get the bill passed into law.

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Overview

  • Enacted in July 2006
  • Purpose:
  • "To protect children from sexual exploitation and violent crime, to prevent child abuse and child pornography, to promote Internet safety, and to honor the memory of Adam Walsh and other child crime victims."

Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, H.R. 4472, 109th (2006). Retrieved from https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/109/hr4472

Implications for Practice

Direct Applications to Child Welfare

  • Mandates checks of the national crime information databases (NCID) for prospective foster or adoptive parents
  • Mandates checks of state child abuse and neglect registries
  • Ensures state compliance with any request for a child abuse registry check from another state
  • Secretary of Health and Human Services tasked with the creation of a national registry of substantiated cases of child abuse or neglect
  • Utilize information on offenders to help ensure children are in a safe environment
  • Agency access to national crime information databases
  • Increased background checks for adults working with or caring for children

Adam Walsh Act - Current Events

  • Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act Reauthorizations:
  • 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2016
  • 2017 (still in process)
  • IDHW Adam Walsh Training:
  • IDHW Academy
  • Code X packet
  • Learning Hub

Outcome

  • The case was highly publicized
  • Changed the way law enforcement deals with missing children.
  • Adam's parents were very active in eliciting change.

Background

Impact of Act

Case Study: The Importance of Adam Walsh Checks

Helps prevent abuse, neglect, and crimes against children.

  • Adam Walsh was abducted in 1981 when he was six years old.
  • His remains were found 16 days later.
  • The case was not closed until 2008.

References

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  • Children removed from home
  • Code X placement
  • Adam Walsh check sent
  • Substantial child protection history found
  • Ensures children are placed in safe environments
  • Foster/adoptive placements
  • Schools
  • Missing child protocols
  • Code Adam
  • Mandated registration in national offender registry
  • Increased penalties for abusers
  • Increased monitoring of porn industry
  • Estalished SMART office

-By the time the case was closed, Adam's murderer had already died.

Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, H.R. 4472, 109th (2006).

American Public Human Services Administration. (2006). Adam Walsh

child protection and safety act of 2006: Summary of child welfare provisions. Retrieved from http://www.aphsa.org/content/dam/AAICPC/PDF%20DOC/Home%20page/Summary-Adam_Walsh_Act.pdf

Child Welfare Information Gateway. (2018). Adam Walsh child

protection and safety act of 2006. Retreived from https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/laws-policies/federal/search/?CWIGFunctionsaction=federallegislation:main.

getFedLedgDetail&id=81

Congress.gov. (2018). H.R.4472 - Adam Walsh child protection and safety

act of 2006. Retrieved from https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/4472

Crosson-Tower, C. (2018). Exploring child welfare: A practice

perspective. New York: Pearson.

Freeman, N. J., & Sandler, J. C. (2010). The Adam Walsh Act: A False Sense

of Security or an Effective Public Policy Initiative? Criminal Justice Policy Review, 21(1), 31-49.

McPherson, L. (2007). Practitioner's guide to the Adam Walsh act.

National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse, 20(9).

  • Children removed from home and placed with general foster family

Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act

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