§ 46:2417 — Notification to local citizen review board of new cases

Louisiana § 46:2417

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 46: Public Welfare and Assistance

Text

§2417. Notification to local citizen review board of new cases
A. The clerk of the court shall forward to the local citizen review board, within ten
days:
(1) A copy of each judgment of disposition for a child who has been adjudicated to
be in need of care and whose custody is awarded to the department.
(2) A copy of the informal adjustment for each child placed in the custody of the
department as the result of a child in need of care proceeding.
B. Whenever a child has been removed from his home and placed in foster care
pursuant to a child in need of care proceeding and no judgment of disposition or informal
adjustment has been entered within one hundred and twenty days of placement, the
department shall notify the local citizen review board that the child is in foster care.
C. Whenever a child has been placed in the custody of the department, voluntarily
and not through a court proceeding, for reasons other than delinquency or need of
supervision, as defined in the Children's Code, the department shall, within ten days, forward
a copy of the placement agreement to the clerk of court in the judicial district where the child
is located. The clerk of the court shall forward the placement agreement to a local citizen
review board appointed by the court. If a judicial proceeding is subsequently commenced in
another court, the citizen review board shall forward to the court where proceedings are
pending all documents, records, and written information in its possession relative to the case.
The receiving court shall make and retain additional copies of the case permanency plan, case
progress reports, and observations and recommendations of the local citizen review board
and shall assign the case and forward all documents, records, and written information to a
new local board.

Legislative History

Added by Acts 1983, No. 610, §1; eff. July 1, 1984; Acts 2021, No. 158, §6.