Ashenhurst Ex Rel. Hall v. Carey’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Pierson v. Ray · Moody v. Flowers · Basista v. Weir · Michael Cohen v. Russell K. Norris
Most-quoted passages
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““2. Since the plaintiff is a minor, and the instant case concerns the expungement of a juvenile record, there is a threshold question of whether the challenged statute is applicable to juvenile records. Given the statutory prohibition against the dissemination and publication of juvenile records, even to other law enforcement agencies, and the legislative intent that they be strictly confidential, it is doubtful whether the harm which precipitated the need for the expungement as provided by §206 — 5 of Chapter 38 is applicable to the highly protected records of a juvenile defendant. As Chapter 37 §702 — 8 provides, in relevant part: (2) No law enforcement officer or other person or agency may knowingly transmit to the Department of Law Enforcement or to the Federal Bureau of Investigation any fingerprint or photograph relating to a boy or girl who has been arrested or taken into custody before his 17th birthday or her 18th birthday, unless the court in proceedings under this Act authorizes the transmission or enters an order under Section 2 — 7 [Chapter 37, §702 — 7] permitting the institution of criminal proceedings. (3) The records of law enforcement officers concerning all boys under 17 and all girls under 18 must be maintained separate from the records of arrests and may not be open to public inspection or their contents disclosed to the public except by order of the court or when the institution of criminal proceedings has been permitted under Section 2 — 7 or such a per”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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