45 CFR § 411.81 - Disciplinary sanctions for staff.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t45/s411.81"
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title: "45 CFR § 411.81 - Disciplinary sanctions for staff."
title_number: 45
title_name: "Public Welfare"
section_number: "411.81"
section_name: "Disciplinary sanctions for staff."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT, ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
part_number: "411"
part_name: "STANDARDS TO PREVENT, DETECT, AND RESPOND TO SEXUAL ABUSE AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT INVOLVING UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN"
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currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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authority: "42 U.S.C. 15607 (d)."
regulatory_source: "79 FR 77789, Dec. 24, 2014, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "411"
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# 411.81 Disciplinary sanctions for staff.

(a) Care provider facilities must take disciplinary action up to and including termination against care provider facility staff with a substantiated allegation of sexual abuse or sexual harassment against them or for violating ORR or the care provider facility's sexual abuse and sexual harassment policies and procedures.

(b) Termination must be the presumptive disciplinary sanction for staff who engaged in sexual abuse or sexual harassment.

(c) All terminations for violations of ORR and/or care provider facility sexual abuse and sexual harassment policies and procedures or resignations by staff, who would have been terminated if not for their resignation, must be reported to law enforcement agencies and to any relevant State or local licensing bodies.

(d) Any staff member with a substantiated allegation of sexual abuse or sexual harassment against him/her at an ORR care provider facility is barred from employment at any ORR care provider facility.