Section 300.80  Delegation of the Investigation

The Department may delegate the investigation of the child abuse or neglect report to:

a)         the local police, sheriff's office, other law enforcement agency, or the State's Attorney, when they are concurrently conducting a criminal investigation of the same incidents and allegations; or

b)         a coroner or medical examiner who is investigating the cause of death of a child who may have been the victim of child abuse or neglect; or

c)         private social service agencies which had been designated for this purpose by the Department prior to July 1, 1980; or

d)         the Department of State Police, when the investigation involves suspected child abuse or neglect perpetrated by State employees acting in their official capacity or in State facilities or institutions.

(Source:  Recodified from 89 Ill. Adm. Code 302.150 at Ill. Reg. 3492)