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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 127
BY SENATOR MARTINY
JUVENILE JUSTICE. Provides for the confidentiality of juvenile records. (8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To enact Children's Code Article 412(L), relative to records; to provide relative to the2
confidentiality of certain records; to provide for the custodian of the records; and to3
provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. Children's Code Article 412(L) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
Art. 412. Confidentiality of records; disclosure exceptions; sanctions7
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L.(1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, when a child9
is adjudicated delinquent for a crime of violence as defined by R.S. 14:2(B) and10
the child was at least fourteen years old at the time of the commission of the11
delinquent act, all records and reports relating to such crime of violence,12
including arrest reports and adjudication information, shall be open and13
available to the public.14
(2) All medical, psychiatric, and psychological evaluations shall remain15
confidential. The custodian of the records shall excise any information relating16
to any other child contained in the records made public.17 SB NO. 127
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Cathy R. Wells.
DIGEST
Proposed law provides that, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any
records or reports, including arrest reports and adjudication information relating to a child
shall be open and available to the public if the child is adjudicated a delinquent of a crime
of violence as defined in R.S. 14:2(B) and the child was at least fourteen years of age at the
time of the commission of the delinquent act.
Proposed law requires that all medical, psychiatric, and psychological evaluations remain
confidential along with any information in the records and reports relating to any other child.
Effective August 1, 2012.
(Adds Ch.C. Art. 412(L))