§ 48-3-308. Response to unfavorable preplacement assessment. - North Carolina Statutes

§48‑3‑308.  Response to unfavorable preplacement assessment.

(a)        Each agency shallhave a procedure for allowing an individual who has received an unfavorablepreplacement assessment to have the assessment reviewed by the agency. Inaddition to the authority in G.S. 131D‑10.5, the Social ServicesCommission shall have authority to adopt rules implementing this section.

(b)        An individual whoreceives an unfavorable preplacement assessment may, after exhausting theagency's procedures for internal review, prepare and file a written responsewith the Division and the agency. The Division shall attach the response to theunfavorable assessment.

(c)        The Division shallacknowledge receipt of the response but shall have no authority to take anyaction with respect to the response.

(d)        If an unfavorablepreplacement assessment is completed and filed with the Division and a minorhas been placed with a prospective adoptive parent who is the subject of theunfavorable assessment, the Division shall notify the county department ofsocial services, which shall take appropriate action.

(e)        An unfavorablepreplacement assessment and any response filed with the Division under thissection shall not be public records as set forth in Chapter 132 of the GeneralStatutes. (1995, c. 457, s. 2.)