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Wash. Rev. Code § 26.44.080 (2026)

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Every person who is required to make, or to cause to be made, a report pursuant to RCW 26.44.030 and 26.44.040, and who knowingly fails to make, or fails to cause to be made, such report, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
[ 1982 c 129 s 10; 1971 ex.s. c 167 s 3.]

Notes:

Severability—1982 c 129: See note following RCW 9A.04.080.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 17 cases (4 in the last 5 years), 1988–2026 · leading case: Beggs v. Dep't of Soc. & Health Servs., 171 Wash. 2d 69 (Wash. 2011).
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Beggs v. Dep't of Soc. & Health Servs., 171 Wash. 2d 69 (Wash. 2011). · cites it 2× “” RCW 26.44.080. The statute does not explicitly provide a civil remedy for a child who suffers further injury against a mandatory reporter who failed to report suspected abuse.”
Kim v. Lakeside Adult Fam. Home, 374 P.3d 121 (Wash. 2016). “Nor is it significant that the AVAA provides a mandated reporter “who knowingly fails’’to report is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.”
Yuille v. State, 45 P.3d 1107 (Wash. Ct. App. 2002). · cites it 2× “Kenneth Feldman and Children’s Hospital and Medical Center (Hospital) conducted a multidisciplinary evaluation of a prospective adoptive mother and child.”
CJC v. Corp. of Catholic Bishop, 985 P.2d 262 (Wash. 1999). “030 (medical practitioners, law enforcement personnel, school personnel, nurses, social service workers, licensed child care providers and their employees, among others, are required to report suspected child sexual abuse to the proper authorities); see also RCW 26.44.080…”
C.J.C. v. Corp. of Catholic Bishop, 138 Wash. 2d 699 (Wash. 1999). “030 (medical practitioners, law enforcement personnel, school personnel, nurses, social service workers, licensed child care providers and their employees, among others, are required to report suspected child sexual abuse to the proper authorities); see also RCW 26.44.080…”
City of Seattle v. Eun Yong Shin, 748 P.2d 643 (Wash. Ct. App. 1988). · cites it 4× “Similarly, RCW 26.44.080 **6 7 provides for criminal proceedings against persons under a duty to report child abuse who fail to do so.”
State v. Motherwell, 788 P.2d 1066 (Wash. 1990). “Former RCW 26.44.080. As the statute makes clear, social workers are one of the groups required to report when they suspect that child abuse has occurred.”
Whaley v. State, 956 P.2d 1100 (Wash. Ct. App. 1998). “15 RCW 26.44.080. 16 Lesley, 83 Wn. App. at 280-81 .”
State Of Washington v. Tanya James-buhl, 393 P.3d 817 (Wash. Ct. App. 2017). “030 to report abuse, “and who knowingly fails to make, or fails to cause to be made, such report, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.” a. RCW 26.44.030(l)(a) ¶16 RCW 26.”
Yuille v. DSHA, 45 P.3d 1107 (Wash. Ct. App. 2002). · cites it 2× “Kenneth Feldman and Children's Hospital and Medical Center (Hospital) conducted a multidisciplinary evaluation of a *1109 prospective adoptive mother and child.”
Beggs v. State, Dept. of Soc. & Health, 247 P.3d 421 (Wash. 2011). · cites it 2× “" RCW 26.44.080. The statute does not explicitly provide a civil remedy for a child who suffers further injury against a mandatory reporter who failed to report suspected abuse.”
Beggs v. State, Dept. of Soc. & Health, 247 P.3d 421 (Wash. 2011). · cites it 2× “" RCW 26.44.080. The statute does not explicitly provide a civil remedy for a child who suffers further injury against a mandatory reporter who failed to report suspected abuse.”
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