Louisiana Children’s Code 1145 – Registration
Terms Used In Louisiana Children's Code 1145
- Agency: includes the Department of Children and Family Services, the corresponding department of any other state, and those private agencies and institutions licensed for the placement of children for adoption by the Department of Children and Family Services or by the corresponding department of any other state. See Louisiana Children's Code 1103
- Child: means a person under eighteen years of age and not emancipated by marriage. See Louisiana Children's Code 1103
- Department: means the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services. See Louisiana Children's Code 1103
A. If no permanent placement has been made within ninety days after a voluntary surrender to a child care agency, the child shall be registered by the appropriate child placement agency with the Louisiana Adoption Resource Exchange within the office of community resources of the department.
B. Any such registration shall not include the surname of the child or otherwise reveal the identities of the blood parents of the child.
C. The department shall maintain a list of the registered children. Such list shall be updated quarterly and made available to all licensed child placement agencies in the state. Subject to the confidentiality requirements of all adoption matters, the department shall use every reasonable method of effecting a permanent placement.
D. Media presentation of available children and other means of public solicitation for the purpose of matching potential adoptive parents with available children shall be used only in cases involving a child who is difficult to place for adoption, subject to rules and regulations adopted pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act.
Acts 1991, No. 235, §11, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.