| 1.__No liability.__A mandated reporter or an employee of an |
| adult protective services agency or a local law enforcement |
| agency who reports a known or suspected instance of financial |
| abuse of an elder or dependent adult is not civilly or criminally |
| liable for any report required or authorized by this chapter. Any |
| other person reporting a known or suspected instance of financial |
| abuse of an elder or dependent adult may not incur civil or |
| criminal liability as a result of any report authorized by this |
| chapter unless it can be proven that a false report was made and |
| the person knew that the report was false. A person required to |
| make a report pursuant to this chapter, or any person taking |
| photographs at that person's discretion, is not civilly or |
| criminally liable for taking photographs of an elder or a |
| dependent adult who is suspected to be the victim of financial |
| abuse or for causing photographs to be taken of such a victim or |
| for disseminating the photographs with the reports required by |
| this chapter. This section may not be construed to grant immunity |
| from this liability with respect to any other use of the |
| photographs. |
