Opinion No.

The Honorable J.E. "Buster" Brown Chair, Natural Resources Committee Texas State Senate P.O. Box 12068 Austin, Texas 78711-2068

Re: Whether a local school official may refuse to permit a Department of Protective and Regulatory Services investigator, investigating reported child abuse, to interview a child at school, and related questions (RQ-1035)

Dear Senator Brown:

Family Code section 261.302(b)(1) permits an investigator, investigating reported child abuse, to interview an allegedly victimized child at the child's school. Subsection (b)(2) of the same section permits an investigator to…