No person engaged in delivery of private social work services, duly licensed or certified pursuant to Chapter 90B of the General Statutes shall be required to disclose any information that he or she may have acquired in rendering professional social services, and which information was necessary to enable him or her to render professional social services: provided, that the presiding judge of a superior or district court may compel such disclosure, if in the court's opinion the same is necessary to a proper administration of justice and such disclosure is not prohibited by G.S. 8-53.6 or any other statute or regulation.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 8-53.7
Social worker privilege
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 187 N.C. App. 684 - Spangler v. Olchowski (2007)
Most recently applied in 221 N.C. App. 486 - Mosteller v. Stiltner (July 2012)
1983, c. 495, s. 2; 2001-152, s. 2; 2001-487, s. 40(b).
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