Blog-Ready Extraction of Findings and Allegation Categories
Source: Utah Admin. Code R512-76, Expungement of Child and Family Services Allegations
Purpose. This document strips the finding and allegation categories out of R512-76 so they can be copied directly into a blog or website article. The wording of the listed categories follows the administrative rule.
1. Findings Automatically Expunged After One Year
Finding category: Without merit
Rule treatment: Allegation types with a finding of without merit are automatically expunged if one year has passed since the CPS case closure date with no subsequent report involving the same alleged perpetrator.
2. Findings Automatically Expunged After Five Years
- Allegation types unsubstantiated by the juvenile court
- Allegation types found to be without merit by the juvenile court
- Dependency — unsupported or supported
- Educational neglect — unsupported or supported
3. Unsupported General Findings Eligible for Expungement Upon Request After Five Years
- Child endangerment
- Dealing in material harmful to a child
- Dental neglect
- Dependency
- Domestic violence related child abuse
- Educational neglect
- Emotional abuse
- Emotional maltreatment
- Environmental neglect
- Failure to protect
- Failure to thrive
- Juvenile perpetrator of sexual or physical abuse
- Medical neglect
- Munchhausen syndrome by proxy
- Non-supervision
- Pediatric condition falsification
- Physical abuse
- Physical health
- Physical neglect
- Psychological neglect
- Sibling or child at risk
- Unknown
4. Supported General Findings Eligible for Expungement Upon Request After Ten Years
- Child endangerment
- Dealing in material harmful to a child
- Dental neglect
- Dependency
- Domestic violence related child abuse
- Educational neglect
- Emotional abuse
- Emotional maltreatment
- Environmental neglect
- Failure to protect
- Failure to thrive
- Fetal exposure to alcohol or other harmful substances
- Juvenile perpetrator non-significant risk of sexual or physical abuse
- Medical neglect
- Munchhausen syndrome by proxy
- Non-supervision
- Pediatric condition falsification
- Physical abuse
- Physical health
- Physical neglect
- Psychological neglect
- Sibling or child at risk
- Unknown
5. Supported or Unsupported Allegations Designated as Chronic or Severe That Are Never Eligible for Expungement
- Abandonment
- Baby doe
- Child endangerment
- Chronic abuse
- Chronic neglect
- Court ordered
- Dealing in material harmful to a child
- Dependency
- Domestic violence related child abuse
- Educational neglect
- Emotional abuse
- Environmental neglect
- Failure to protect
- Failure to thrive
- Fetal addiction to alcohol or other substance
- Fetal exposure to alcohol or other harmful substances
- Juvenile perpetrator - significant risk of sexual or severe physical abuse
- Labor trafficking
- Lewdness
- Medical neglect
- Medical neglect resulting in death, disability, or serious illness
- Non-supervision
- Pediatric condition falsification
- Physical abuse
- Physical neglect
- Ritual abuse
- Safe relinquishment of a newborn
- Severe abuse
- Severe neglect
- Sexual abuse
- Sexual exploitation
- Sexual trafficking
- Sibling or child at risk
Important rule qualifier: The rule also states that these allegations are never eligible for expungement when there was a criminal conviction for the same incident.
6. Findings That Are Never Eligible for Expungement Regardless of Allegation Type
- False report
- Unable to locate
- Unable to complete
- Substantiated by the juvenile court
7. Short Blog-Ready Master List of Finding Labels
For a concise discussion of the kinds of DCFS findings appearing in the rule, the following labels can be used as a master reference:
- Without merit
- Unsubstantiated by the juvenile court
- Unsupported
- Supported
- Chronic
- Severe
- False report
- Unable to locate
- Unable to complete
- Substantiated by the juvenile court
Source Note
Administrative rule: Utah Admin. Code R512-76, Expungement of Child and Family Services Allegations. Date of Last Change listed in the rule: August 15, 2023.