The article stresses that universal mandatory reporting laws require all adults to report suspected child abuse, but many states lack proper training. Without clear guidance and education, these laws ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- New court filings show several Orthodox churches and a priest are suing the state of Washington and Governor Bob Ferguson over a newly implemented law that requires clergy to report ...

TACOMA, Wash. — A federal judge indicated Monday that he will likely issue a preliminary injunction against Washington's law designating members of the clergy as mandatory reporters of sex abuse.

TACOMA, Wash. — Washington's law that would require clergy to report child abuse or neglect, no matter how they learned about it, was put on hold by a federal judge on Friday. Catholic leaders who ...

TACOMA, Wash — On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled a Washington law that would make clergy members mandatory reporters of abuse cannot be enforced, at least for now. "IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the ...