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Committee approves language change to allow sealing of most juvenile adjudications
Summary
The Senate Judiciary Committee passed House Bill 14 72, which narrows the category of juvenile adjudications excluded from sealing to only adjudications for felonies involving violence under section 5 4 5 0 1, allowing judges more discretion to expunge rehabilitative juvenile records.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved House Bill 14 72, a language update that clarifies which juvenile delinquency adjudication records remain ineligible for sealing or expungement.
Representative Carol Dobby, sponsor, told the committee the change targets the statute’s language so that only adjudications for a "felony involving violence as…
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