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Use DA Form 7317-2 when you need to child abuse/safety violation hotline 90-day follow-up information. Full title: CHILD ABUSE/SAFETY VIOLATION HOTLINE 90-DAY FOLLOW-UP INFORMATION. Everything you need is on this page — the file, the entry rules, the routing. Edition 01/01/2026, status ACTIVE, 1 page(s), roughly 172 fields. Note the supersession: a later edition exists, and this one applies only to records already completed on it.
Two references decide everything about your use of it: G-1 maintains the content, AR 608-18 sets the trigger and the routing. Consult the directive when your case is not routine; otherwise the printed blocks tell you enough. The person named in the entries fills it, or the administrative office holding the file does it for them.
PDF, XFDL are available and the decision takes one second. Type your entries: fillable pdf. Write them: printable pdf. The published layout is common to both, so the format governs your method and nothing more.
Save the download and open it in a dedicated reader. That single step prevents the common failure: an in-browser viewer accepts your typing and discards it at tab close. Confirm with one field and one save cycle before committing the whole form. The xfdl copy needs the IBM Lotus Forms Viewer. That format runs in Army systems and nothing else reads it.
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What the form asks for
- ABOUSE_1
- ABOUSE_2
- ABUSE
- ABUSE_3
- AGE
- AGE_1
- AGE_2
- AGE_3
- AGSUSPCT
- BRANCH
- CALL
- CASENUM
- ContentArea1
- DATABASE
- DATE
- DETERMIN
- DTRMNDTD
- FACILITY
- GENDER
- GENDER_1
- GENDER_2
- GENDER_3
- GNSUSPCT
- GRADE
The heading entries carry more weight than the body. Name spelled as in official records, identification number, organisation, date prepared. Retrieval runs on those values, so a transposed digit or a casual spelling costs someone a file search. Fill them before anything else.
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The signature closes the form and nothing precedes it. Draft status holds until it is applied, by hand or by an accepted electronic method. Countersignatures go in printed order, each dated at signing. Then one final read from the top, looking for the four recurring defects: empty mandatory fields, swapped digits in identification numbers, day-month inversion in dates, and residue from a reused file that goes forward as though intended.
Privacy Act statement first, personal entries second. The notice covers who is authorised to collect, why, who else routinely sees it, and whether you must answer. After completion the file carries personal data and is stored and sent under the corresponding safeguards.
The prescribing directive names the destination; office custom does not. Depending on the case that means a specific office, the unit administrative channel, or the personal record. Keep a copy first, because the original does not come back. Retention runs on the applicable records schedule.
Companion documents come from the same series and number scheme. Within the DA series, a shared proponent or a shared directive usually means shared use, and a form cited on the face of another accompanies it. Gather the whole package first — continuation sheets, cover sheets, transmittals.
A stored file goes stale silently. The proponent revises, a new edition date is published, and your copy says nothing about it — so compare the printed date against the edition in force before typing into it again. Completed submissions on an earlier edition are not reopened.
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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 7317-2?
- CHILD ABUSE/SAFETY VIOLATION HOTLINE 90-DAY FOLLOW-UP INFORMATION
- Which edition is current?
- 01/01/2026
- Who is responsible for this form?
- G-1
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL, PDF
Publisher notes
- PRIVACY ACT STATEMENT