{"data":{"id":"us-ut/utah-code-80-2-610","jurisdiction":"us-ut","citation":"Utah Code § 80-2-610","heading":"Immunity from liability for a report -- Exception.","body":"(1)\n(a) A person who in good faith makes a report under Section 80-2-602, 80-2-603, or 80-2-604, or who otherwise notifies the division or a peace officer or law enforcement agency of suspected abuse or neglect of a child, is immune from civil and criminal liability in connection with the report or notification.\n(b) Except as provided in Subsection (3), a person taking a photograph or X-ray, assisting an investigator from the division, serving as a member of a child protection team, or taking a child into protective custody in accordance with Chapter 2a, Removal and Protective Custody of a Child, is immune from civil or criminal liability in connection with those actions.\n(2) This section does not provide immunity with respect to an act or omission of a governmental employee except as provided in Title 63G, Chapter 7, Governmental Immunity Act of Utah.\n(3) The immunity described in Subsection (1)(b) does not apply if the person:\n(a) acted or failed to act through fraud or willful misconduct;\n(b) in a judicial or administrative proceeding, intentionally or knowingly gave, upon a lawful oath or in any form allowed by law as a substitute for an oath, false testimony material to the issue or matter of inquiry in the proceeding;\n(c) intentionally or knowingly fabricated evidence; or\n(d) except as provided in Subsection (4), intentionally or knowingly with a conscious disregard for the rights of others, failed to disclose evidence that was known by the person to be relevant to a material issue or matter of inquiry in:\n(i) a pending judicial or administrative proceeding if the person knew of the pending judicial or administrative proceeding; or\n(ii) a judicial or administrative proceeding, if disclosure of the evidence was requested of the employee by a party to the proceeding or counsel for a party to the proceeding.\n(4) Immunity is not lost under Subsection (3)(d), if the person:\n(a) failed to disclose evidence described in Subsection (3)(d), because the person is prohibited by law from disclosing the evidence; or\n(b)\n(i) in accordance with the provisions of 45 C.F.R. 164.502(g)(5), refused to disclose evidence described in Subsection (3)(d) to another person who requested the evidence; and\n(ii) after refusing to disclose the evidence under Subsection (4)(b)(i), complied with or responded to a valid court order or valid subpoena received by the person to disclose the evidence described in Subsection (3)(d).","path":["Title 80 Utah Juvenile Code","Chapter 80-2 Child Welfare Services","Part 80-2-6 Child Abuse and Neglect Reports"],"source_url":"https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title80/Chapter2/80-2-S610.html","current_through":"2026 General Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T11:34:34Z","sha256":"0fe63b9c2f6719868ddfd5957f8e7abe7cfc41129fd2ffe69991d65d5f0e6379","source_id":"us-ut","stale":false,"prev":"us-ut/utah-code-80-2-609","next":"us-ut/utah-code-80-2-611"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}