Catholic bishops call mandatory reporting law 'brazen act of religious discrimination'

A controversial new Washington state law is slated to take effect this month, but Roman Catholic Clergy and the U.S. DOJ have been pushing back.

Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.

Current law — which does not include clergy among the categories of people who are required to report child abuse — notes that people at a nonprofit or for-profit organization must report child abuse or neglect by an individual they supervise if that individual regularly has unsupervised access to kids in their role at the organization. But there is a carveout stipulating that reporting is not required when the information is fully obtained via privileged communication.