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Senate Judiciary panel passes cleanup to juvenile-court report rules
Summary
The Judiciary Committee approved SB82 to clarify when prefiled court and CASA reports can be admitted in dependency-neglect hearings, directing courts to determine on the record whether such reports are admissible and allowing parties to make evidentiary objections.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to pass SB82, a bill the sponsor characterized as a technical cleanup to rules governing court reports in dependency and neglect proceedings. Senator Clark recognized the measure, and Brian Welch, executive director of the Arkansas Parent Council Commission, told the committee the change was meant to stop judges from reading prefiled reports before hearings without counsel having…
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