SOUND ADVICE
TAPE RECORDING CHILD ABUSE INVESTIGATIONS
You are permitted by Virginia law to record all conversations between
yourself and child protective services workers.  Social workers, like
anyone else, are likely to be on their best behavior when they are
aware they are being recorded.  The Virginia Statute covering such
tape recordings reads as follows:
     63.1-248.6:2.  Tape recording of child abuse investigations. -
     Any person who is suspected of abuse or neglect of a child and
     who is the subject of an investigation pursuant to this chapter
     may tape record any communications between him and child
     protective services personnel which take place during the course
     of such investigation, provided all parties to the conversation
     are aware the conversation is to be recorded.  The parties'
     knowledge of the recording shall be demonstrated by a declaration
     at the beginning of the recorded portion of the conversation that
     the recording is to be made.  If a person who is suspected of
     abuse or neglect of a child and who is the subject of an
     investigation pursuant to this chapter elects to make a tape
     recording as provided in this section, the child protective
     services personnel may also make such a recording.
--- FMail/386 1.0g
(1:2629/124)
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