SB 1460 Summary

• Requires diligent recruitment efforts to include individuals reflecting the ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity of foster and adoptive children.

• Authorizes county child welfare and probation departments to request information from the California Parent Locator Service and Federal Parent Locator Service to identify and locate family members of removed children.

• Allows county juvenile courts to transfer entire child case files to tribes when transferring Indian child custody proceedings, and requires both courts and tribes to document jurisdiction findings.

• Exempts resource families approved under a unified approval process from foster home licensure requirements and allows additional counties to participate in the resource family approval program.

• Grants tribal child welfare agencies authority to approve homes for Indian child foster and adoptive placements, and authorizes them to request criminal history information from the Department of Justice.