Statutes | Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Law Title 2, Chapter 5 ยง 1 | 2018
a. Any person who is a physician, surgeon, dentist, podiatrist, chiropractor, dental hygienist, optometrist, medical examiner, emergency medical technician, paramedic, or health care provider, teacher, school counselor, instructional aide, teacher's aide, teacher's assistant, or bus driver or monitor employed by the Tribe, administrative officer, supervisor of child welfare and attendance, or truancy officer of any tribal school, child day care worker, headstart teacher, public assistance worker, worker in a group home or residential or day care facility, or social worker, psychiatrist, psychologist, or psychological assistant, licensed or unlicensed marriage, family, or child counselor, person employed in the mental health profession, or law enforcement officer, probation officer, worker in a juvenile rehabilitation or detention facility, or person employed in an agency who is responsible for enforcing statutes and judicial orders, or any person who supervises or has control over children or who has regular contact with children, who knows, or has reasonable suspicion that a child was neglected or abused, or that actions are being taken, or are going to be taken, that would reasonably be expected to result in the neglect or abuse of a child, shall immediately report such neglect or abuse to the Tribe's child protective services or law enforcement service, or both.
b. Any person who fails to immediately report such neglect or abuse to the child protective services or law enforcement service shall be fined and imprisoned as provided by tribal law.