Program Administration

Under N.C.G.S. § 7A-38.3D(c), a community mediation center may assist a judicial district in administering and operating its mediation program for criminal matters in district court. The court may delegate to a center responsibility for the scheduling of cases and the center may provide volunteer and/or staff mediators to conduct the mediations. The center shall also maintain files in such mediations; record caseload statistics and other information as required by the court, the Dispute Resolution Commission (Commission), or the NCAOC, including tracking the number of cases referred to mediation and the outcome of those mediations; and, in accordance with N.C.G.S. § 7A-38.7 and N.C.G.S. § 7A-38.3D(m), oversee the dismissal process for cases resolved in mediation. History Note. 373 N.C. 757.