OAR 413-120-0060: Review of the Adoption Placement Selection

(1) A review may not be requested of an adoption placement selection when each potential adoptive resource was a general applicant. (2) Except as provided in section (1) of this rule: (a) Each of the following individuals may request a review of the process and the adoption placement selection under OAR 413-120-0021(10) or 413-120-0057(1): (A) The child. (B) The child's attorney. (C) The CASA. (D) An authorized representative from the child’s Tribe, if the child is an Indian child. (E) A member of the RCWAC. (F) The child's caseworker, with the approval of the caseworker's supervisor and the Child Welfare Program Manager or designee. (G) A relative or current caretaker who was considered as the adoptive resource but was not selected. (b) A request for review of the process and decision made in the adoption placement selection must be in writing and received by the Child Permanency Program Manager or designee within seven calendar days of the notification of the adoption placement selection under OAR 413-120-0021(12)-(13) or 413-120-0057(2)(b). (c) When a request for review has been received, the Child Permanency Program Manager, Assistant Child Permanency Program Manager, or designee must notify the Director of Child Welfare or designee and must send written notice of the request to the following individuals: (A) Each of the potential adoptive resources considered by the caseworker or adoption committee and ADS; (B) The child's caseworker; (C) The adoption worker for each of the potential adoptive resources considered; (D) The supervisors of the workers; (E) The child's attorney; (F) The child's CASA; (G) An authorized representative from the child’s Tribe, if the child is an Indian child; (H) A member of the RCWAC, if the child is a refugee child; and (I) The local Child Welfare Program Manager. (d) The Director of Child Welfare or designee must decide whether to grant a review of the adoption placement selection within 14 calendar days after the notice of the adoption placement selection under OAR 413-120-0021(12)-(13) or 413-120-0057(2)(b). Written notice of the decision whether or not to conduct a review must be sent to the individuals listed in subsection (c) of this section and to the Child Permanency Program Manager. This written notice is not required to be provided within the 14 calendar day timeline for the decision whether to grant a review. (e) The Director of Child Welfare or designee may, on their initiative and without a request for a review, give notice of intent to review the adoption placement selection when the decision to review is made within seven calendar days following the date of the notice of the adoption placement selection in OAR 413-120-0021(12)-(13) or 413-120-0057(2)(b). (f) The Director of Child Welfare or designee may conduct the review by any of the following methods: (A) Personally conduct a review of information considered in making the adoption placement selection and may consider additional, relevant information about the child or potential adoptive resource. (B) Refer the adoption placement selection to a review committee appointed by and at the discretion of the Director of Child Welfare or designee to: (i) Review the information considered in making the original adoption placement selection; (ii) Consider additional relevant information about the child or potential adoptive resources; and (iii) Issue a recommendation that the Director of Child Welfare or designee affirm or modify the original adoption placement selection of the caseworker or the ADS or recommend a different adoption placement selection. (C) Appoint another individual to: (i) Review the information considered in making the original adoption placement selection; (ii) Consider additional relevant information about the child or potential adoptive resources; and (iii) Issue a recommendation that the Director of Child Welfare or designee affirm or modify the original adoption placement selection of the caseworker or the ADS, or recommend a different adoption placement selection. (g) The Director of Child Welfare or designee must provide written notification of the decision affirming or changing the original adoption placement selection to the individuals identified in subsection (2)(c) of this rule and the Child Permanency Program Manager. (3) Notwithstanding sections (1) and (2) of this rule, the Director of Child Welfare may reconsider a decision and require the actions in subsection (2)(f) of this rule to occur when the following conditions exist: (a) The time to request review of an adoption placement selection under subsection (2)(b) of this rule has expired; (b) There is no request for review pending; and (c) The deadline set by statute for a person entitled to seek judicial review of an adoption placement selection entered under this rule has not expired. (4) The adoption placement selection made by the Director of Child Welfare or designee under this rule is final.