11/04/07
Report
This brief report, updated for 2007, compares how various states handle the issue of confidentiality in juvenile delinquency hearings. This 2007 update reports that 14 states had statutes and/or court rules that permit or require juvenile delinquency hearings to be open to the public. Another 21 states open delinquency hearings to the public but require a certain age/offense to open it, while 15 states have rules that generally close these types of hearings to the public.