Bills · 2011-2012 Regular Session
prohibiting the display on the consolidated court automation programs of records of municipal ordinance violations committed by persons seventeen years of age.
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, the director of state courts maintains a system, known as
the Consolidated Court Automation Programs (CCAP), that contains information
about family, civil, and criminal cases and municipal ordinance violations filed in the
courts in this state. The information on CCAP is available for free on an Internet Web
site. CCAP allows a user to enter a person's name into a search function on the Web
site and retrieve information about every case involving the person.
Under current law, records of delinquency or of alleged criminal or municipal
ordinance violations involving a person under the age of 17 are confidential and not
available for public review on CCAP. However, records of criminal charges and
charges involving a municipal ordinance violation are available for public review on
CCAP if the person charged is 17 years of age or is an adult. Generally, records of
non-traffic municipal ordinance violations are viewable on CCAP for five years.
Under this bill, records involving a municipal ordinance violation alleged
against or committed by a person who is 17 years of age may not be displayed on
CCAP.