(a) Any attorney or other employee regularly employed by the Department of Justice to render services shall be appointed by the Attorney General to serve at the Attorney General's pleasure. After 3 years full-time service the employee shall have attained tenure and shall continue to be regularly employed during efficient and good behavior and shall not be removed because of religious or political opinions or affiliations or except for due cause, after a hearing before a court consisting of 3 judges of the Superior Court of the State. (1) As a condition of attaining tenure, every Deputy Attorney General within the Criminal Division shall be required to attend and complete, within the first 3 years of service, seminars conducted by the National College of District Attorneys or any other appropriate organization approved by the Attorney General on the subjects of child sexual and physical abuse, exploitation and domestic violence. (2) Any Deputy Attorney General in the Criminal Division who has received tenure prior to the effective date of this educational requirement shall be required to attend and complete said seminars within 3 years from the date hereof. (3) As a condition of retaining the tenure rights conferred by this section, every Deputy Attorney General within the Criminal and Family Divisions shall be required to attend and complete at least 4 hours every 3 years of training on the subjects of child sexual and physical abuse, exploitation and domestic violence. Such training shall be conducted by the National College of District Attorneys, coordinated with the training available pursuant to §§ 911 and 931(b)(4) of Title 16, or otherwise performed by any other appropriate organization approved by the Attorney General. Such training shall also include the mandatory reporting obligations imposed by Delaware law, including reporting under the Medical Practice Act [Chapter 17 of Title 24] and § 903 of Title 16, and federal law in the reporting of child sexual and physical abuse. The failure to complete such training shall be a forfeiture of the rights conferred by this section. (b) The term "full time," when used in reference to attorneys in this section, prohibits such attorneys from engaging in the private practice of law. The term "regularly employed," as used in this section, refers to those attorneys and other employees appointed or employed on a full-time basis by the Department of Justice. The Attorney General shall so designate such attorneys and other employees in writing at the time of their employment or at such other time at the Attorney General's pleasure. (c) Nothing contained in this section shall limit the power of the Attorney General to assign attorneys or other employees to any of the various positions provided for in this chapter and to change said personnel in said positions from time to time at the Attorney General's pleasure; provided, however, that any attorney or other employee who shall have been regularly employed in a certain position may not be deprived of regular employment or tenure by virtue of such change of position.
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