Statutes | Cherokee Code Chapter 7B Article 3 ยง 7B-306 | 2019
(a)
No privilege shall be grounds for any person or institution failing to report that a child may have been maltreated, even if the knowledge or suspicion is acquired in an official professional capacity, except when the knowledge or suspicion is gained by an attorney from that attorneys client during representation only in the maltreatment case. No privilege, except the attorney-client privilege, shall be grounds for excluding evidence of maltreatment in any judicial proceeding (civil, criminal, or juvenile) in which a childs maltreatment is in issue nor in any judicial proceeding resulting from a report submitted under this article, both as this privilege relates to the competency of the witness and to the exclusion of confidential communications.
(b)
Nothing in this article shall be construed to be in conflict with any federal reporting provisions required under federal law.
(Ord. No. 524 , 7-17-2015)