CVS must notify Law Enforcement (unless already completed by placement) and then the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), and all identified required parties of the child or youth’s runaway or missing status.  Timeframes for the completion of these notifications are specifically listed below according to hours of operation (either during regular or after business hours).  

Per CPS Policy 6151.3, identified required parties are: 

• Appropriate law enforcement agencies; 
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 
• Court with jurisdiction over the Department's managing conservatorship of the child; 
• Child or Youth's attorney ad litem; 
• Child or Youth’s guardian ad litem; 
• CASA;  
• Child or Youth’s parent unless the parent: 
  • cannot be located or contacted; 
  • has had the parent’s parental rights terminated; or 
  • has executed an affidavit of relinquishment of parental rights. 
• Parents’ attorney; and  
• Child or Youth’s probation or parole officer, if applicable.

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