duty to report
Required reporting responsibility
Duty to report is a legal or professional obligation to notify authorities about certain situations—typically suspected child abuse, elder abuse, or other harm.
Teachers, doctors, social workers, and therapists are commonly designated as mandatory reporters: Her duty to report overrode patient confidentiality.
Failure to fulfill this duty can result in legal penalties.
- whistleblowerInsider who reports misconduct
- blow the whistleExpose hidden wrongdoing
- mandatoryRequired by rule
- disclosureAct of revealing information
- legal obligationDuty enforced by law
obligation · compliance · ethics · speak up · safeguarding · child protection · misconduct · see something say something · confidential · hotline · witness · incident · negligence · cover up · accountability · transparency · breach · protocol
- child welfarechild protection, child welfare, foster care, child services, foster home
- legal ethicslegal ethics, attorney-client privilege, professional conduct, privilege, code of ethics
- police reformpolice brutality, police misconduct, body cameras, community oversight, qualified immunity
- honor codehonor code, no cheating, honesty, integrity, no lying
- dilemmasdilemma, moral dilemma, ethical dilemma, tough call, lesser evil
duty to reportgag order
Court-imposed speech restriction
suppression · cover-up · omertà · secrecy oath · sealed records
duty to reportright to silence
Legal privilege against compelled speech
attorney-client privilege · doctor-patient confidentiality · spousal privilege
duty, duties, dutiful, dutifully, report, reports, reported, reporting, reporter