The contract between RadarOnline and Suleman outlines an exclusive, paid, seven-week deal that includes regular "video journal" entries. Since the homecoming, RadarOnline has posted numerous other reports and could face a host of additional citations.
Angela Suleman, the octuplets' grandmother, called the citations "ridiculous."
"The babies were brought in and put in a crib," she said. "How can babies, you know, not even a month old, how can they 'work'?"
The filming is not intrusive, Angela Suleman said.
"The babies have no inkling," she said. And Suleman's older children "think it's fun," she said, adding that sometimes they stick their tongues out at the camera.
Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred, who has repeatedly attempted to intervene on behalf of Suleman's children, said she was pleased by the state's actions.
Officials from the state's health and human services agency notified the Orange County child welfare department about the citations Tuesday.
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