Safe Haven for Infants Act

The act establishes a legal framework allowing a parent to relinquish an infant anonymously at a designated safe haven site rather than abandoning the child unsafely. It sets out who may leave an infant and under what conditions, the intake and notification duties of personnel at a safe haven site, and the role of the state child welfare agency in taking custody and placing the child. It also provides a process for a parent who later seeks reunification, and grants immunity from liability or prosecution to those who act in accordance with its terms.

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