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The juvenile court's Standing Order No. 2023-02: certified minute orders in dependency and juvenile justice proceedings disclosed without a request under Welfare and Institutions Code section 827 in limited circumstances - to correctional institutions to facilitate visits with incarcerated parents, to parents whose children have been returned to them, for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, a social security card, a birth certificate, behavioral health or medical records, court ordered parentage (DNA) testing, the Department of Juvenile Justice following a re-entry hearing, by the attorney of a minor or non-minor 12 years of age or older who has authorized it in writing, upon the stipulation of counsel accepted by the court, and under the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children (ICPC); each disclosure accompanied by a written advisal of confidentiality and recorded by the agency or person making it.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF KERN METROPOLITAN DIVISION JUVENILE JUSTICE CENTER In the Matter of Order Permitting Release of Certified Minute Orders in Limited Circumstances Standing Order No. 2023-02 Misc. No. JM058834 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AS FOLLOWS: The Court finds that release of a certified copy of a minute order made in dependency and juvenile justice proceedings in certain limited circumstances is consistent with the intent of Welfare and Institutions Code section 827. The release of such minute orders is necessary to ensure contact between the minors and their parents, to obtain vital documents for minors and non-minors, to facilitate proceedings to achieve lawful immigration status for minors and non-minors, to communicate information to the Department of Juvenile Justice, to ensure minors and non-minor dependents who are residing out of state receive adequate services, for parentage (DNA) testing of minors and parents, and to facilitate communication on behalf of minors or non-minors with their attorneys. All such disclosures are in the best interests of such youth. All recipients of such disclosures must be advised of the confidential nature of the information and directed against disclosing such information beyond the purpose of the original disclosure. I. Therefore, the Court issues this Standing Order authorizing the disclosure of certified minute orders in dependency and juvenile justice proceedings without requiring a request for Disclosure of Records to be filed pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 827 in the following limited circumstances: a) To the California Department of Corrections and other correctional institutions to facilitate visits between children and their incarcerated parents; b) To parents whose children have been returned to them, for use in enrolling minors in school; obtaining medical, dental, and mental health treatment; and as otherwise required to facilitate the successful transition of the minors to the home of their parents; c) As required in connection with efforts to obtain Special Immigrant Juvenile Status for minors or non-minors; d) To obtain a minor’s or non-minor’s social security card; e) To obtain a minor or non-minor’s birth certificate; f) To obtain a minor’s behavioral health or medical records; g) To conduct court ordered parentage (DNA) testing of the minor and parent(s); h) To the Department of Juvenile Justice following a re-entry hearing; i) If a minor or non-minor dependent or ward who is 12 years of age or older and has authorized such in writing, the attorney representing the minor or non-minor may share information about the minor’s or non-minor’s dependency or juvenile justice proceeding, including the petition, minute orders, and formal orders; j) Upon the stipulation of counsel and acceptance of the stipulation by the court; k) For purposes related to minors or non-minor dependents pursuant to the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children (ICPC): II. Any such disclosures shall be accompanied by a written advisal that the document(s) being disclosed are confidential and must be maintained as such and not disseminated further, except as necessary to accomplish the purpose of the original disclosure. The agency or person making the disclosure must keep a record of all such disclosures, which record must be produced upon request by the Juvenile Court. THIS ORDER IS EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. Dated: 4-13-2023 Susan M. Gill Presiding Judge of the Juvenile Court
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF KERN METROPOLITAN DIVISION JUVENILE JUSTICE CENTER In the Matter of Order Permitting Release of Certified Minute Orders in Limited Circumstances Standing Order No. 2023-02 Misc. No. JM058834 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AS FOLLOWS: The Court finds that release of a certified copy of a minute order made in dependency and juvenile justice proceedings in ce
Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-14 (California T4 Kern build 2026-10-14) by eye from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-kern/docs/general/order-permitting-release-certified-minute-orders-limited-circumstances-2023-02.pdf (522856 bytes, sha256 a1c07008435e38e2d04955ac3cc95df047279638263181f7ccaf07a13d490236; 3 pages, each covered by scanned images; a machine reading laid with the images on 3 of them (invisible on 3 pages) - not the card's source): read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi (vision/img/cmo-p01.png to cmo-p03.png; three pages on pleading paper, filed April 13, 2023; the file's pages are images under a machine reading); checked against three RapidOCR readings of the images (at 200, 300 and 150 dpi) and the file's own machine reading laid with the images, never published: of the transcription's 542 words, 22 6-word windows were not found in a reading, in 4 spans - 2 spans split into consecutive pieces each found (a page break, a caption box or a filing stamp the readings interleave, or the readings' line order) and 2 spans read again on the page images and found as transcribed (vision/check-log.txt; evidence/vision-check-2026-10-14-run2.log). The order's number "2023-02" and the date "4-13-2023" are handwritten. Not part of the text: the pleading paper's line numbers 1 to 28, the clerk's filing stamp, the caption's closing parentheses and rule, the punch-hole marks, the signature, and the footer "Standing Order re Disclosure of Certified Minute Orders in Limited Circumstances" with the page numbers "-1-" to "-3-". The transcription's closing note, which describes the pages, is not published. Review note: The Standing Orders page lists it as STO-2023-02; it replaced Standing Order 2022-01-A (held: no longer listed).
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.