§ 2518 Retention of child identification card; release or transfer; return
A. The principal of each elementary school shall keep each child identification card on the school premises and shall release or transfer a card only as provided in this Chapter. He shall not permit the inspection, copying, or removal of any child identification card by any person without written permission of the child's parent, except as provided in Subsection B of this Section.
B. The principal of the elementary school of each student who moves from an elementary school to another elementary school within the state shall transfer the child identification card to the new school with the child's other school records. The principal of the elementary school of each student who moves from an elementary school to another school outside of this state shall return the child identification card to the child's parent.
C. The principal shall deliver a child identification card to the parent of that child at any time the parent so requests in writing and the principal shall retain the written request.
D. The principal may release the child identification card of any child to a law enforcement agency or other public agency or entity only if he receives written permission from the child's parent to do so. However, the principal may release the child identification card of any child to a law enforcement agency or other public agency or entity without written permission from the child's parent for good cause shown after a contradictory hearing.
E. The principal shall deliver each child identification card to the child's parent at the end of the child's sixth grade school year. No copy of the card shall be kept by the school.
§ 2519 Confidentiality of card; penalty for violation
A. Each child identification card shall be the property of the child's parent. It shall not be inspected, copied, removed from the school premises, transferred, or possessed except as provided in this Chapter.
B. Each willful violation of this Section shall be punishable by imprisonment for not more than six months or a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or both. Each unauthorized inspection, copying, removal, transfer, or possession shall constitute a separate violation.
§ 2521 Law enforcement agency receiving report of missing child; duty
The law enforcement agency which receives an initial report of a missing child shall immediately report the missing child to national law enforcement agencies and the state law enforcement agencies of neighboring states. This notification shall include entry of the child's name into the National Crime Information Center registry. These reports shall be made for each reported missing child without regard to whether the child is believed to be missing due to stranger abduction, parental abduction, or any other cause.
LOUISIANA REVISED STATUTES
TITLE 46. PUBLIC WELFARE AND ASSISTANCE
CHAPTER 14-A. MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN
§ 1431 Missing and Exploited Children Information Clearinghouse; establishment; definitions
A. There is hereby created a Missing and Exploited Children Information Clearinghouse within the Department of Social Services. The clearinghouse shall be operated by the office of human development. The secretary shall establish services deemed appropriate by the department to aid in the location of missing and/or exploited children.
B. The clearinghouse is established as a central repository of information regarding missing and/or exploited children. Such information shall be collected and disseminated to assist in the location of missing children and the reporting of exploited children to the proper agency.
C. As used in this Section:
(1) "Exploited child" means one whose health or welfare has been harmed by any person, responsible or not for the child's health or welfare, which harm occurs or is threatened through nonaccidental sexual contact which includes sexual abuse as defined in Ch.C. Article 603.
(2) "Missing child" means any individual under the age of eighteen years, whose temporary or permanent residence is in Louisiana, whose location has not been determined, and who has been reported missing to a federal or state law enforcement agency.
(3) "Missing child report" is a report prepared on a form designed by the Department of Social Services for use by private citizens and law enforcement agencies to report missing children information to the Missing and Exploited Children Information Clearinghouse.
§ 1432 Duties of the clearinghouse
A. The clearinghouse shall:
(1) Establish a system of intrastate communication of information relating to children determined, by the parent, guardian, or legal custodian of the child, or by a law enforcement agency, to be missing and/or exploited.
(2) Provide a centralized file for the exchange of information on missing children within the state.
(3) Interface with the National Crime Information Center for the exchange of information on children suspected of interstate travel.
B. Any parent, guardian, or legal custodian may submit to the clearinghouse a missing child report on any child whose whereabouts is unknown, regardless of the circumstances, subsequent to the reporting of such to the appropriate law enforcement agency and may also submit to the clearinghouse information on exploited children. Such reports and information shall be included in the clearinghouse data base.
C. The clearinghouse shall collect, process, maintain, and disseminate information on missing and/or exploited children and shall strive to maintain or disseminate only accurate and complete information.
§ 1433 Notification of location of missing and/or exploited child
The parent, guardian, or legal custodian responsible for notifying the clearinghouse or a law enforcement agency of a missing and/or exploited child shall immediately notify such agency or the clearinghouse of any child whose location has been determined.
§ 1434 Fingerprints, missing children
A. When fingerprints are taken for the purpose of identifying a child, should that child become missing, the state agency, public or private organization, or other person taking such fingerprints shall not reveal the fingerprints to any law enforcement agency or other person for any purpose other than the identification of a missing child.
B. Fingerprints of children taken and retained by any state agency, public or private organization, or other person, excluding the parent or legal custodian of the child, shall be destroyed upon the child's reaching eighteen years of age.
LOUISIANA REVISED STATUTES
TITLE 43. PUBLIC PRINTING AND ADVERTISEMENTS
CHAPTER 1. STATE PRINTING
La. R.S. 43:33 (2005)
§ 43:33. Printed matter; missing children information
A. As a public service, each state department and agency that publishes a periodical of an informational nature that has as its intent public distribution rather than solely internal or interagency distribution is authorized to have published in each issue of such periodical the picture and name of one or more Louisiana children believed to be missing, or children from other states believed to be missing in Louisiana. The periodical also may include the toll-free telephone number provided by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for the purpose of receiving information related to a missing child or children.
B. (1) Each state department and agency shall identify and provide to the Division of Administration a list of their periodicals that have public distribution and such other department or agency publications that have wide enough circulation to be useful for the purpose of disseminating information about such missing children.
(2) The Division of Administration and the office of state police shall develop such policies, rules, and regulations as shall be necessary to implement this Section, including, but not limited to, policies, rules, and regulations concerning the nature and number of department or agency publications that shall be used for this purpose, the number of such missing child identities that may be published in each periodical, and the provision of any other information deemed pertinent to this purpose.
(3) The Division of Administration is hereby authorized to consult and coordinate with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, any other public, quasi-public, or private organization, or agency, the purpose of which is to provide information and assistance related to missing children, and local law enforcement agencies in order to implement the provisions of this Section.
§ 43:34. Louisiana Conservationist magazine; information on missing children; publication required
The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, in conjunction with the Missing and Exploited Children Information Clearinghouse1 of the Department of Social Services, shall publish in each issue of the Louisiana Conservationist magazine the picture, name, and description of one or more Louisiana children believed to be missing or the picture, name, and description of one or more children believed to be missing in Louisiana. In addition, the department shall also publish in the Louisiana Conservationist magazine in reasonable proximity to such names and pictures, the names of children whose pictures were published in the magazine and the dates that they were located. The toll-free telephone number provided by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for the purpose of receiving information related to a missing child or children shall be published with the consent of the organization.