1993 LAWS OF MARYLAND

(f) (1) "Educator or human service worker" means any professional employee
of any correctional, public, parochial or private educational, health, juvenile service,
social or social service agency, institution, or licensed facility.

(2) "Educator or human service worker" includes:

(i) any teacher;

(ii) any counselor;

(iii) any social worker;

(iv) any caseworker; and

(v) any probation or parole officer.

(g) "Family member", means a relative by blood, adoption, or marriage of a child.

(h) "Health practitioner" includes any person who is authorized to practice
healing under the Health Occupations Article.

(i) "Household" means the location:

, .           (1) in which the child resides;

(2)    where the abuse or neglect is alleged to have taken place; or

(3)     where the person suspected of abuse or neglect resides.

(j) "Household member" means a person who lives with, or is a regular presence
in, a home of a child at the time of the alleged abuse or neglect.

(K) "INDICATED" MEANS A FINDING THAT THERE IS CREDIBLE EVIDENCE,
WHICH HAS NOT BEEN SATISFACTORILY REFUTED, THAT ABUSE, NEGLECT, OR
SEXUAL ABUSE DID OCCUR.

[(k)](L) (1) "Law enforcement agency" means a State, county, or municipal
police department, bureau, or agency.

(2) "Law enforcement agency" includes:

(i) a State, county, or municipal police department or agency;

(ii) a sheriffs office;

(iii) a State's Attorney's office; and

(iv) the Attorney General's office.

[(l)] (M) "Local department" means the department of social services that has
jurisdiction in the county:

(1)     where the allegedly abused or neglected child lives; or

(2)     if different, where the abuse or neglect is alleged to have taken place.
[(m)](N) "Local State's Attorney" means the State's Attorney for the county:

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