failure to report
Keeping quiet unlawfully
Failure to report is the legal or ethical violation of not disclosing information one is obligated to share.
The phrase appears most often in contexts involving mandatory reporting—teachers, doctors, and clergy may face charges for failure to report suspected child abuse.
It also applies to financial disclosure: He was convicted of failure to report foreign bank accounts.
The offense lies not in action but in silence where duty demanded speech.
- concealmentAct of hiding something
- silenceTotal lack of sound
- omissionFailure to include
- negligenceFailure to exercise care
- withholdingKeeping from another
cover your tracks · suppression · whistleblower · whistleblower protection · mandatory · legal obligation · breach · violation · incident · accident · abuse · misconduct · crime · witness · bystander · see something say something · complicit · liable
- Parole Violationsabsconding, curfew violation, technical violation, missed appointment, weapons possession
- neglect crimeschild neglect, neglect, nonfeasance, dereliction of duty, elder neglect
failure to reportreporting
Conveying documented information
disclosure · full disclosure · mandatory reporting · whistleblowing · self-reporting
failure to reportfalse reporting
Giving untrue accounts
falsification · misrepresentation · fraud · fabrication · perjury
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