Santa Clara Superior Court Sealing & Redaction Procedures

WARNINGCriminal cases

Photos and video are permitted only when juvenile offenders, victims, and parents or guardians of the accused are not present.

Photos and video are permitted only when the juvenile offenders, victims, and parents or guardians of the accused are not present.

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Under a JV-596 sealing order, DFCS may access sealed records solely to determine court-ordered placement or services for the minor; the information may be shared only with the court and parties and must otherwise remain confidential, and such access does not modify the sealing order.

order to seal records made on Judicial Council form JV-596, DFCS, as the agency responsible for the supervision and placement of the minor or nonminor dependent, may access a record that has been ordered sealed by the court for the limited purpose of determining an appropriate placement or service that has been ordered for the minor or nonminor dependent by the court. The information contained in the sealed record and accessed by DFCS may be shared with the Order to Seal Juvenile Records ===== PAGE 2 ===== court, and parties, but shall in all other respects remain confidential and shall not be disseminated to any other person or agency. Access to the sealed record under this paragraph shall not be construed as a modification of the court's order dismissing the petition and sealing

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CLETS-001 and FM-1041 will not become part of the court file.

which will not become part of the court file.

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The 'Referral for Court Investigator & Questionnaire - Guardianship' form is confidential.

This form is confidential.

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Records subject to a sealing motion are provisionally sealed, and may be considered by the Court, pending determination of the motion.

Records that are the subject of a motion or application to seal shall be provisionally sealed pending the determination of the motion to seal. Such records may be considered by the Court for any purpose, including a finding of probable cause, pending the determination of the motion or application to seal.

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The successor trustee's trust may be filed as a confidential document by attaching a Confidential Document Cover Sheet (form PB-4003).

The trust may be filed as a confidential document by attaching one copy of the Confidential Document Cover Sheet. (Attachment form PB-4003.)

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Orders to seal records on form JV-590 after January 1, 2015 that direct DFCS to seal their records are modified to apply only to proceedings filed under section 241.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

When an Order to Seal records was made on a form JV-590 after January 1, 2015, and specifies that the Department of Children and Family Services shall seal their records, that order shall be modified by this standing order to apply only to the proceedings filed pursuant to section 241.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

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The trust may be filed as a confidential document by attaching a Confidential Document Cover Sheet (form PB-4003).

The trust maybe filed as a confidential document by attaching one copy of the Confidential Document Cover Sheet. (attached form PB-4003.)

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Applications for ancillary defense expenses and supporting declarations must be marked "Confidential" and kept in a confidential section of the Court file.

The application and supporting declarations shall be marked "Confidential," and shall be kept in a confidential section of the Court file.

INFOCivil cases

The Capacity Declaration may be designated confidential by attaching a completed Confidential Document Cover Sheet (PB-4003) when filed.

The petitioner may designate the legal capacity form as confidential by attaching a completed Confidential Document Cover Sheet (see attached form PB-4003) to it when it is filed.

INFOCivil cases

The trust may be filed as a confidential document by attaching one copy of the Confidential Document Cover Sheet (PB-4003).

The trust maybe filed as a confidential document by attaching one copy of the Confidential Document Cover Sheet. (attached form PB-4003.)

INFOCivil cases

The trust may be filed as a confidential document by attaching one copy of the Confidential Document Cover Sheet (PB4003).

The trust may be filed as a confidential document by attaching one copy of the Confidential Document Cover Sheet. (attached form PB4003.)

INFO

The minor's attorney may release information from the minor's file to the San Andreas Regional Center for obtaining or continuing services.

THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the minor's attorney is permitted to release information from the minor's attorney's file to a representative of the San Andreas Regional Center for the purpose of obtaining or continuing services through the San Andreas Regional Center.

INFOCriminal cases

Minors may share juvenile-court psychological evaluations with any health care provider without a court order, notwithstanding section 827 or other related rules.

Notwithstanding Welfare and Institutions Code section 827 or any related state or local court rule, a minor may share a psychological evaluation that has been prepared by health care professionals while the minor was under the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Justice Court with his or her private, school based, probation referred, or any other health care provider.

INFOCriminal cases

Prosecutors may obtain and use a juvenile wardship petition and sustaining minute orders without a section 827 disclosure petition, solely to prove a prior strike in adult criminal court.

A prosecuting attorney may, without separately filing a petition for disclosure under section 827, obtain and use a juvenile wardship petition charging an offense that qualifies as a strike prior and minute orders showing that the petition was sustained for the limited purpose of proving a prior strike allegation in adult criminal court.

INFO

Court records are presumed open unless confidentiality is required by law.

Unless confidentiality is required by law, Court records are presumed to be open. (California Rules of Court, Rule 2.550(c).)

INFO

A petitioner may designate the legal capacity form as confidential by attaching a completed Confidential Document Cover Sheet (PB-4003) when filing it.

The petitioner may designate the legal capacity form as confidential by attaching a completed Confidential Document Cover Sheet (see attached form PB-4003) to it when it is filed.

INFO

E-filed documents become public when filed unless sealed or confidential.

Except as provided in California rules of Court, Rules 2.500 through 2.507, an electronically filed document is a public document when it is filed unless it is sealed under California Rules of Court, rule 2.551(b) or filed as a confidential document as provided by law.