MR-04 — Your Agency’s Procedure and Your Protections

The law tells you to report. Your agency's policy tells you how it wants to know, what it does next, and who to speak to when you are unsure. Minnesota Statutes section 245D.09 requires orientation on the program's own policies, not only on the statutes behind them. This lesson covers how internal reporting works alongside the external report, what happens after a report is made, the protections you have when you report in good faith, and the consequences of failing to report. It closes with the 72-hour rule itself: what it requires, when the clock starts, and what your agency has to be able to show a licensor.

Learning Objectives

• Explain how internal reporting relates to the external report
• Describe what happens after a report is made
• State the protections available to a good-faith reporter
• Describe the consequences of failing to report
• State when the 72-hour clock starts, and distinguish it from the requirement before unsupervised contact