Delaware Code Title 16. Health and Safety § 932A. Investigation and review of suspected child victims of human trafficking

(a) The Attorney General, the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families, and any other state or local agency with responsibility for investigating child victims of human trafficking shall report to the Commission, through the Office of the Child Advocate, a child who is suspected to be a victim of human trafficking.

(b) The Commission Chair shall appoint a committee to review each investigation under this section, which may be the same committee appointed under § 932 of this title, and a panel to conduct investigations on suspected child victims of human trafficking.  The members of the committee and panel, together with staff, contractors, or volunteers designated to assist the committee and oversight team are considered agents of the Commission under § 935 of this title.

(c) Within 3 months of a report to the Commission under subsection (a) of this section, the panel appointed under subsection (b) of this section shall commence a review of the facts and circumstances of the suspected human trafficking of a child.  Absent good cause, the review must conclude within 12 months.

(d) Notwithstanding a requirement of § 931(b) of this title to the contrary, the Commission shall, if necessary, make system-wide findings or recommendations arising from an investigation and review conducted under this section.

(e) For purposes of this section, “completion of the prosecution” means the decision to file no information or seek no indictment, conviction or adjudication, acquittal, dismissal of an information or indictment by a court, the conditional dismissal under a program established by Delaware law or a court, or the nolle prosequi of an information or indictment by the Attorney General.