§7-14C-4. Right to refuse to disclose personal finances;
exceptions.
For the purposes of job assignment or other personnel action,
a sheriff may not require or request a deputy sheriff to disclose
any item if his or her property, income, assets, sources of income,
debts or personal or domestic expenditures unless such information
is obtained through proper legal procedures or is necessary for the
employing agency to ascertain the desirability of assigning the
deputy sheriff to a specialized unit in which there is a strong
possibility that bribes or other improper inducements might be
offered.