{"data":{"id":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-48-3-308","jurisdiction":"us-nc","citation":"N.C. Gen. Stat. § 48-3-308","heading":"Response to unfavorable preplacement assessment.","body":"(a)\tEach agency shall have a procedure for allowing an individual who has received an unfavorable preplacement assessment to have the assessment reviewed by the agency. In addition to the authority in G.S. 131D-10.5, the Social Services Commission shall have authority to adopt rules implementing this section.\n(b)\tAn individual who receives an unfavorable preplacement assessment may, after exhausting the agency's procedures for internal review, prepare and file a written response with the Division and the agency. The Division shall attach the response to the unfavorable assessment.\n(c)\tThe Division shall acknowledge receipt of the response but shall have no authority to take any action with respect to the response.\n(d)\tIf an unfavorable preplacement assessment is completed and filed with the Division and a minor has been placed with a prospective adoptive parent who is the subject of the unfavorable assessment, the Division shall notify the county department of social services, which shall take appropriate action.\n(e)\tAn unfavorable preplacement assessment and any response filed with the Division under this section shall not be public records as set forth in Chapter 132 of the General Statutes. (1995, c. 457, s. 2.)","path":["Chapter 48. Adoptions.","Article 3. Adoption of Minors.","Part 3. Preplacement Assessment."],"source_url":"https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_48/GS_48-3-308.html","current_through":"S.L. 2026-30","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T18:04:02Z","sha256":"e47142d31243883648a62c62325d6c134b1119f1049dd3edab2bce079bb84029","source_id":"us-nc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-48-3-307","next":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-48-3-309"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}