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28	28	STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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30	30	1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
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32	32	HOUSE BILL 1952 By: Cruz
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38	38	AS INTRODUCED
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40	40	An Act relating to children; amending 10A O.S. 2011,
41	41	Section 2-6-109, which relates to expungements;
42	42	providing a process by which a person or child may
43	43	expunge a juvenile court record; providing
44	44	requirements; providing definition; providing notice
45	45	requirements; providing exceptions; and providing an
46	46	effective date.
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52	52	BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
53	53	SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 10A O.S. 2011, Section 2 -6-109, is
54	54	amended to read as follows:
55	55	Section 2-6-109. A. A person or the child, or the parent,
56	56	legal guardian or the attorney for the child, who is the subject of
57	57	a juvenile court record , that is not confidential as provided by
58	58	law, may petition the district court in which the juvenile court
59	59	record is located for an order to expunge all or any part of the
60	60	record pertaining to the person or the child., except basic
61	61	identification information; pr ovided:
62	62	B. The petition for expungement may be filed either as an oral
63	63	or written petition for an order to expunge the record pertaining to
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90	90	the child at the time the case is before the court for a final
91	91	review of the ordered disposition pursuant to Sectio n 2-2-503 of
92	92	this Title or at any time after an informal adjustment agreement has
93	93	been successfully completed pursuant to Section 2 -2-104 of this
94	94	title; provided:
95	95	1. The person or child has attained twenty-one (21) years of
96	96	age or older successfully completed the informal adjustment
97	97	agreement, the deferred adjudication, or a period of probation or
98	98	custody with a juvenile bureau or the Office of Juvenile Affairs and
99	99	the person's or child's case is being, or has been, dismissed by the
100	100	court or the court is c losing the case due to lack of jurisdiction
101	101	upon the person or child reaching the age of eighteen (18) years of
102	102	age or nineteen (19) years of age if jurisdiction of the court was
103	103	previously extended by the court pursuant to Section 2 -7-504 of this
104	104	Title;
105	105	2. The person or child has not been arrested for any adult
106	106	criminal offense and no charge, indictment, or information has been
107	107	filed or is pending against the person or child at the time of the
108	108	petition for an expungement;
109	109	3. The person has not been subje ct to any deferred prosecution
110	110	or deferred sentence, and has not been convicted of any criminal
111	111	offense; and
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138	138	4. All court costs, restitution, fines and other court -ordered
139	139	requirements have been completed for all the informal adjustment or
140	140	the juvenile proceedings.
141	141	4. After November 1, 2021, any person who has attained eighteen
142	142	(18) years of age or older and has successfully completed an
143	143	informal adjustment agreement, a deferred adjudication, or a period
144	144	of probation or custody with a juvenile bureau or t he Office of
145	145	Juvenile Affairs, and whose case has previously been dismissed may
146	146	petition the court for an order of expungement. In order to be
147	147	eligible for an order of expungement, the person must have satisfied
148	148	the requirements of paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 o f subsection B of this
149	149	statute as set forth above.
150	150	5. a. For the purposes of this section, the term "expunge"
151	151	or "expungement" shall mean the sealing of juvenile
152	152	court records.
153	153	b. If a person's or child's adjudication, deferred
154	154	adjudication, or informal adjustment is being or has
155	155	been dismissed, then upon the receipt of an oral or
156	156	written petition of the person, the child, or other
157	157	authorized person, the court may, if the State does
158	158	not object, grant the expungement if the c ourt finds
159	159	that the harm to pri vacy of the person or the child in
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187	187	consequences outweigh the public interest in retaining
188	188	the records.
189	189	c. If the court grants the expungement , it shall issue a
190	190	written order to any law enforcement agency over whic h
191	191	the court has jurisdiction to expunge all files and
192	192	records pertaining to the arrest or adjudication of
193	193	the person or child and shall order the clerk of the
194	194	court to expunge the entire file and record of the
195	195	case, including docket sheets, index entries, court
196	196	records, summonses, warrants or records in the office
197	197	of the clerk or which have been produced by a law
198	198	enforcement agency in which the name of the person or
199	199	the child is mentioned. The court may order probation
200	200	officers and counselors of a juvenile bureau or the
201	201	Office of Juvenile Affairs to expunge all records,
202	202	reports and social and clinical studies relating to
203	203	the person or the child that are in the possession of
204	204	a Juvenile Bureau or the Office of Juvenile Affairs,
205	205	except when the documents are ne cessary to maintain
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207	207	d. Members of the judiciary, district attorneys, the
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209	209	child, employees of juvenile bureaus and the Office of
210	210	Juvenile Affairs who are assigned juvenile court
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237	237	intake responsibilities, and the Department of
238	238	Corrections may access records that have been expunged
239	239	pursuant to this subsection without a court order for
240	240	the purpose of determining whether to dismiss an
241	241	action, seek a voluntary probation, file a petition o r
242	242	information, or for purposes of sentencing or
243	243	placement in a case where the person who is the
244	244	subject of the sealed record is alleged to have
245	245	committed a subsequent juvenile delinquent act, a
246	246	youthful offender act, or any adult criminal offense.
247	247	Provided, any record sealed pursuant to this section
248	248	shall be ordered unsealed upon application of the
249	249	prosecuting agency when said records are requested for
250	250	use in any subsequent juvenil e delinquent, youthful
251	251	offender or adult prosecution.
252	252	B. C. If the State objected to oral or written petition for
253	253	expungement, the court shall allow the person or the child, or their
254	254	counsel, to file a written petition for the expungement of the
255	255	juvenile court records. Upon the filing of a petition for
256	256	expungement of a juvenile court record, the court shall set a date
257	257	for a hearing, which hearing may be closed at the court 's
258	258	discretion, and shall provide a thirty (30) days ' notice of the
259	259	hearing to the district attorney, the Office of Juvenile Affairs,
260	260	the Oklahoma State Bureau o f Investigation, and any other person or
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287	287	agency whom the court has reason to believe may have relevant
288	288	information related to the expungement of any record.
289	289	C. D. Upon a finding that the harm to privacy of the person in
290	290	interest or dangers of unwarranted adverse consequences outweigh the
291	291	public interest in retaining the records, the court may shall order
292	292	the records, or any part thereof except basic identification
293	293	information, to be expunged. If the court finds that neither
294	294	expungement of the records nor maintaining of the records unsealed
295	295	by the agency would serve the ends of justice, the court may enter
296	296	an appropriate order limiting access to the records. Any order
297	297	entered pursuant to the provisions of this subsection shall specify
298	298	those agencies to whi ch the court order shall apply.
299	299	D. E. Upon the entry of an order to expunge any juvenile court
300	300	record, or any part thereof, the subject official actions shall be
301	301	deemed never to have occurred, and the person or the child in
302	302	interest and all juvenile and c riminal justice agencies may properly
303	303	reply, upon any inquiry in the matter, that no such action ever
304	304	occurred and that no such record exists with respect to the person
305	305	or the child.
306	306	E. Inspection of the records included in the order may
307	307	thereafter be permitted by the court only upon petition by the
308	308	person in interest who is the subject of the records, the Attorney
309	309	General, or by the district attorney and only to those persons and
310	310	for such purposes named in the petition.
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337	337	F. When an order of expungement i s issued by the court pursuant
338	338	to this Section, the court shall require the attorney for the person
339	339	or the child to prepare a written order of expungement which shall
340	340	be signed by the court and filed in the clerk 's office of the
341	341	district court in which the juvenile court record is located.
342	342	Copies of the order of expungement shall be provided or mailed to
343	343	the person or the child, as well as the parent(s), the legal
344	344	guardian(s) of the child, the prosecuting attorney, the law
345	345	enforcement agency or agencies th at investigated the case, the
346	346	detention or jail in which the person or the child was incarcerated,
347	347	the juvenile bureau, the Office of Juvenile Affairs, and the
348	348	Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation directing the entity to
349	349	expunge (seal) the juvenile court records in its custody as directed
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351	351	F. G. Employers, educational institutions, landlords, state and
352	352	local government agencies, officials, and employees shall not, in
353	353	any application or interview or otherwise in any other way, require
354	354	an applicant to disclose any information contained in any expunged
355	355	juvenile court records. An applicant need not, in answer to any
356	356	question concerning arrest, juvenile and criminal records, provide
357	357	information that has been expunged, including any reference to o r
358	358	information concerning expungement and may state that no such action
359	359	has ever occurred. Such an application may not be denied solely
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386	386	because of the applicant 's refusal to disclose information that has
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388	388	G. H. Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize
389	389	the physical destruction of any juvenile records.
390	390	H. I. For the purposes of this section, expunged materials
391	391	which are recorded in the same document as unsealed material may be
392	392	recorded in a separate document, and sealed, then ob literated in the
393	393	original document.
394	394	I. J. For the purposes of this act, district court index
395	395	reference of sealed material shall be destroyed, removed or
396	396	obliterated.
397	397	J. K. Any record ordered to be expunged pursuant to this
398	398	section shall be sealed and, if not unsealed within ten (10) years
399	399	of the expungement order, may be obliterated or destroyed at the end
400	400	of the ten-year period.
401	401	K. L. Subsequent to records being sealed as provided herein,
402	402	the district attorney, the Office of Juvenile Affairs, the Oklaho ma
403	403	State Bureau of Investigation, or other interested person or agency
404	404	may petition the court for an order unsealing any records. Upon
405	405	filing of a petition, the court shall set a date for hearing, which
406	406	hearing may be closed at the court 's discretion, and shall provide
407	407	thirty (30) days' notice to all interested parties. If, upon
408	408	hearing, the court determines there has been a change of conditions
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435	435	or that there is a compelling reason to unseal the records, the
436	436	court may order all or a portion of the records unsealed.
437	437	L. M. Nothing herein shall prohibit the introduction of
438	438	evidence regarding actions sealed pursuant to the provisions of this
439	439	section at any hearing or trial for purposes of impeaching the
440	440	credibility of a witness or as evidence of character tes timony
441	441	pursuant to Section 2608 of Title 12 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
442	442	M. N. A person who has attained eighteen (18) years of age or
443	443	older may petition the district or municipal court in which the
444	444	juvenile court record is located for an order to expunge all or any
445	445	part of the record pertaining to matters involving truancy provided
446	446	the person has met the criteria set forth in paragraphs 2 1 through
447	447	4 3 of subsection A of this section. The petition shall be reviewed
448	448	by the district or municipal judge with pr imary responsibility over
449	449	the juvenile court docket.
450	450	SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
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