§ 14-1-6.1 - Records. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 14-1-6.1

   § 14-1-6.1  Records. – (a) In any case where a court shall have obtained jurisdiction of a juvenilehaving attained the age of seventeen (17) years pursuant to 2007 P.L. 73,Article 22, section 1:

   (i) All police records relating to the arrest, detention,apprehension and disposition of the juvenile and all records of identificationmaintained pursuant to chapter 12-1 of the general laws shall be treated asfamily court records in accordance with §§ 14-1-64 and 38-2-2 of thegeneral laws; provided, however, that no person and no department, agency orany other instrumentality of the state or of any subdivision thereof shall beheld liable or otherwise legally accountable for having disclosed ordisseminated any such records in reasonable reliance upon the law in effectbetween July 1, 2007, and the effective date of this act [November 8,2007]; and provided further that nothing in this section shall be deemedto prohibit the use of witness statements and other police records in thecourse of judicial proceedings initiated prior to the effective date of thisact; and

   (ii) All court records of such proceedings shall be sealedupon final disposition of the case in the event of a no information, dismissalor not guilty finding or upon the completion of any sentence, probation and/orparole imposed therein.