View or print a confidential court report

Before an adoption is finalized, a worker evaluates the adoptive family and adoptive children and produces the confidential court information report, which is filed with the court at least 20 days before the finalization hearing. This report may include more than one child, but only if the children in the same adoptive placement home are being adopted together.

Once a confidential court information report has been saved for a child, a new court record may not be created for that child, unless the child’s existing adoptive placement has been end-dated and a new placement record is created.

View a confidential court information report as follows:

1. From the Home screen, click the Case tab.  The Case Workload screen appears.

2. Click the case ID number link for the adoption case you want to view. The Case Overview screen appears.

3. Click Pre-Finalization Information in the link menu. The Confidential Court Report Information screen appears. The screen displays only the children for whom an adoptive placement record has been completed.

4. Click the select link in the Confidential Court Report(s) area for the report you want to view. The Confidential Court Report Detail screen appears. It contains a series of Topic Area links which open different topic areas of the report.

5. Click the link for the topics area section you want to view. The Court Information screen appears.

6. Repeat steps 5 – 6 for each report section you want to view.

7. On the Confidential Court Report Information screen, click report to print the report.