PRINTER'S NO. 1784
No. 1444 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY STEVENS, KOSINSKI, ARGALL, WOGAN, CIMINI, GANNON
AND SIRIANNI, JUNE 19, 1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JUNE 19, 1985
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for
3 public availability of certain information concerning
4 children.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 6308(b) of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
9 § 6308. Law enforcement records.
10 * * *
11 (b) Public availability.--
12 [(1) The contents of law enforcement records and files
13 concerning a child shall not be disclosed to the public
14 except if the child is 14 or more years of age at the time of
15 the alleged conduct and if:
16 (i) the child has been adjudicated delinquent by a
17 court as a result of an act or acts which include the
18 elements of rape, kidnapping, murder, robbery, arson,
1 burglary or other act involving the use of or threat of
2 serious bodily harm; or
3 (ii) a petition alleging delinquency has been filed
4 by a law enforcement agency alleging that the child has
5 committed an act or acts which include the elements of
6 rape, kidnapping, murder, robbery, arson, burglary or
7 other act involving the use of or threat of serious
8 bodily harm and the child previously has been adjudicated
9 delinquent by a court as a result of an act or acts which
10 included the elements of one of such crimes.
11 (2) If the conduct of the child meets the requirements
12 for disclosure as set forth in paragraph (1), then the court
13 or law enforcement agency, as the case may be, shall disclose
14 the name, age and address of the child, the offenses charged
15 and the disposition of the case. The master or judge who
16 adjudicates a child delinquent shall specify the particular
17 offenses and counts thereof which the child is found to have
18 committed and such information shall be inserted on any law
19 enforcement records or files disclosed to the public as
20 provided for in this section.] The names of all children
21 taken into custody for acts that constitute a felony or
22 misdemeanor shall be made available to the public and members
23 of the news media.
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25 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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