Tex.
Human Resources Code Section 42.04271
Rights of Parent or Guardian with Child in Certain Child-care Facilities
(a)
This section applies only to a day-care center, group day-care home, before-school program, after-school program, school-age program, or registered family home.(b)
A parent or guardian of a child at a child-care facility has the right to:(1)
enter and examine the child-care facility during the facility’s hours of operation without advance notice;(2)
file a complaint against the child-care facility;(3)
review the child-care facility’s publicly accessible records;(4)
review the child-care facility’s written records concerning the parent’s or guardian’s child;(5)
receive from the child-care facility the commission’s inspection reports for the child-care facility and information about how to access the child-care facility’s compliance history online;(6)
have the child-care facility comply with a court order preventing another parent or guardian from visiting or removing the parent’s or guardian’s child;(7)
be provided the contact information for the division responsible for regulating the child-care facility, including the division’s name, address, and phone number;(8)
inspect any video recordings of an alleged incident of abuse or neglect involving the parent’s or guardian’s child, provided that:(A)
video recordings of the alleged incident are available;(B)
the parent or guardian of the child is not allowed to retain any part of the video recording depicting a child who is not the parent’s or guardian’s child; and(C)
the parent or guardian of any other child captured in the video recording receives notice from the facility under Subsection (c);(9)
obtain a copy of the child-care facility’s policies and procedures;(10)
review, on the request of the parent or guardian, the facility’s:(A)
staff training records; and(B)
any in-house staff training curriculum used by the facility; and(11)
be free from any retaliatory action by the child-care facility for exercising any of the parent’s or guardian’s rights.(c)
Before allowing a parent or guardian to inspect a video recording under Subsection (b)(8), a child-care facility must provide written notice to the parent or guardian of any other child captured in the video recording.(d)
This section does not affect the ability of a law enforcement agency or the department to access a video recording as part of an investigation of an incident depicted in the video recording.(e)
A child-care facility shall provide the parent or guardian of the child with a written copy of the rights listed in Subsection (b) not later than the child’s first day at the facility.
Source:
Section 42.04271 — Rights of Parent or Guardian with Child in Certain Child-care Facilities, https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HR/htm/HR.42.htm#42.04271
(accessed Jun. 5, 2024).