16.1-307 - Circuit court records regarding juveniles. - Virginia Statutes

§ 16.1-307. Circuit court records regarding juveniles.

In proceedings against a juvenile in the circuit court in which the circuitcourt deals with the child in the same manner as a case in the juvenilecourt, the clerk of the court shall preserve all records connected with theproceedings in files separate from other files and records of the court asprovided in § 16.1-302. Except as provided in §§ 19.2-389.1 and 19.2-390,such records shall be open for inspection only in accordance with theprovisions of § 16.1-305 and shall be subject to expungement provisions of §16.1-306. In proceedings in which a juvenile, fourteen years of age or olderat the time of the offense, was adjudicated delinquent in juvenile court onthe basis of an act which would be a felony if committed by an adult, or wasfound guilty of a felony in the circuit court, any court records, other thanthose specified in subsection A of § 16.1-305, regarding that adjudication orconviction and any subsequent adjudication of delinquency or conviction of acrime, shall be available and shall be treated in the same manner as adultcriminal records.

(1977, c. 559; 1990, c. 258; 1993, cc. 468, 926; 1996, cc. 755, 914.)