There's a long, depressing history based on the approach that our primary response to a struggling family is reporting, said Mical Raz, a physician and historian at the University of Rochester in New York. There's now a wealth of evidence that demonstrates that more reporting is not associated with better outcomes for children.
Stephanie Villafuerte, Colorado's child protection ombudsman, oversees a task force to reexamine the state's mandatory reporting laws. She said the group is seeking to balance a need to report legitimate cases of abuse and neglect with a desire to weed out inappropriate reports. This is designed to help individuals who are disproportionately impacted, Villafuerte said.
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