North Carolina § 115C-150 - 15. Reporting to residential schools on deaf and blind children.

§ 115C-150. 15. Reporting to residential schools on deaf and blind children.

Request for Consent. - Local superintendents shall require that the following request for written consent be presented to parents, guardians, or custodians of any hearing impaired or visually impaired children no later than October 1 of each school year: "North Carolina provides three public residential schools serving visually and hearing impaired students: the Governor Morehead School for the Blind, the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf, and the North Carolina School for the Deaf. Do you consent to the release of your contact information and information regarding your child and his or her impairment to these schools so that you can receive more information on services offered by those campuses? Annual Report to Residential Schools. - Local superintendents shall report by November 30 each year the names and addresses of parents, guardians, or custodians of any hearing impaired or visually impaired children who have given written consent to the directors of the Governor Morehead School for the Blind, the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf, and the North Carolina School for the Deaf. The report shall include the type of disability of each child, including whether the hearing and visual impairments range from partial to total disability, and if the child has multiple disabilities with the visual or hearing impairment not identified as the primary disability of the student. The report shall also be made to the Department of Public Instruction. Confidentiality of Records. - The directors of the Governor Morehead School for the Blind, the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf, and the North Carolina School for the Deaf shall treat any information reported to the schools by a local superintendent under subsection (b) of this section as confidential, except that a director or the director's designee may contact the parents, guardians, or custodians of any hearing impaired or visually impaired children whose information was included in the report. The information shall not be considered a public record under G.S. 132-1. History (2016-94, s. 8.12(a).) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2016-94, s. 8.12(c), provides: "This section applies beginning with the 2016-2017 school year. Local superintendents shall present the consent form to parents, guardians, or custodians of any hearing impaired or visually impaired children required by subsection (a) of this section by October 1, 2016, and shall make the first report required under subsection (a) of this section no later than November 30, 2016." Session Laws 2016-94, s. 1.2, provides: "This act shall be known as the 'Current Operations and Capital Improvements Appropriations Act of 2016.'" Session Laws 2016-94, s. 39.7, is a severability clause.