Section 45-57-82.44 Evaluation Process.

(a) Upon application by an offender for admission into the pretrial diversion program and prior to admission thereto and as a part of the district attorney’s evaluation process, the district attorney may require the offender to furnish information concerning past criminal history, education history, work history, family history, medical or psychiatric treatment or care prescribed or received, psychological tests taken, and any other information concerning the offender which the district attorney, in his or her sole discretion, believes has a bearing on the decision to admit or deny the offender to the program. (b) The district attorney may require the offender to submit to any type of test or evaluation process or interview which the district attorney deems appropriate in evaluating the offender. The costs of any test or evaluation shall be paid by the offender. The offender shall provide the district attorney, upon request, with written consent to receive any additional educational, work, medical, psychiatric, and psychological records or any other records deemed necessary by the district attorney.