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(f) [Repealed, § 15, ch. 19, SLA 2017] (g) [Repealed, § 14 ch 129 SLA 1994.] (h) [Repealed, § 14 ch 129 SLA 1994.] (i) A person required to report under this section who makes the report to the person's job supervisor or to another individual working for the entity that employs the person is not relieved of the obligation to make the report to the department as required under (a) of this section. (j) A person who recklessly makes a false report under this section is civilly liable for actual damages suffered by the person who is the subject of the report. Sec. 47.24.011. Duties of the department regarding services and protection for vulnerable adults. In order to facilitate the provision of supportive and protective services for vulnerable adults, the department shall (1) compile information on available supportive and protective services for vulnerable adults in the state; (2) establish, publicize, and maintain a vulnerable adult centralized intake office; (3) develop and coordinate a statewide system to serve vulnerable adults who are in need of protective services; (4) establish criteria and procedures for the authorization and supervision of other state agencies or community-based service providers to serve as designees of the department under this chapter; (5) in accordance with this chapter, designate other state agencies or community-based service providers to deliver supportive and protective services to vulnerable adults who are in need of protective services; (6) develop within the vulnerable adult centralized intake office a central registry for reports of vulnerable adults in need of protective services; (7) maintain confidentiality of records as provided for in AS 47.24.050; and (8) adopt regulations to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Sec. 47.24.013. Reports of undue influence, abandonment, exploitation, abuse, neglect, or self- neglect of vulnerable adults in out-of-home care facilities. (a) If a report received under AS 47.24.010 pertains to the undue influence, abandonment, exploitation, abuse, neglect, or self-neglect of a vulnerable adult that is alleged to have been committed by or to have resulted from the negligence of the staff or a volunteer of an out-of- home care facility, including a facility licensed under AS 47.32, in which the vulnerable adult resides, the department may forward the report to the long term care ombudsman for investigation under AS 44.25.310. (b) The department shall investigate a report received under AS 47.24.010 regarding the undue influence, abandonment, exploitation, abuse, neglect, or self-neglect of a vulnerable adult that is alleged to have been committed by or to have resulted from the negligence of the staff or a