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On request of an attorney of the Orange County Public Defender's Office, the Probation Department must release the names and locations of the minors specified, and Public Defender attorneys must be admitted to Juvenile Hall and the other Probation institutions to meet with and interview those minors in an unmonitored booth without further order; the order does not expire absent further order.
California > Fourth Appellate District > Orange County > Superior Court of California, County of Orange
[File stamp: FILED, Superior Court of California, County of Orange, May 20, 2026, David H. Yamasaki, Clerk of the Court, By: R. Bracken, Deputy Clerk] SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF ORANGE SITTING AS THE JUVENILE COURT MISCELLANEOUS ORDER – M-2026-9 TITLE: AUTHORIZATION FOR THE RELEASE OF NAMES AND LOCATIONS OF MINORS SPECIFIED BY ATTORNEYS FROM THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE AND ADMITTANCE INTO JUVENILE HALL TO: CHIEF PROBATION OFFICER, ORANGE COUNTY PROBATION DEPARTMENT Due to the special needs that arise in the representation of minors, from time to time Attorneys employed by the Orange County Public Defender's Office may seek access to juveniles who are detained in Juvenile Hall (or one of the other institutions maintained by the Probation Department) prior to the minors' first appearances in court or before the Public Defender has been appointed to represent such minors. FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN THEREFOR, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that, upon the request of an Attorney employed by the Orange County Public Defender's Office, the Probation Department shall provide the name and housing location of a minor as described by the Attorney without further order of the Juvenile Court. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Attorneys from the Orange County Public Defender's Office shall be allowed entrance into Juvenile Hall (and other institutions maintained by the Probation Department) to meet with, and interview, such minors in an unmonitored booth without further order of the Juvenile Court. Notwithstanding Local Rule 900.1.3, this Order will not expire absent further order of the Court. Dated this 20th day of May, 2026. Craig E. Arthur Presiding Judge of the Juvenile Court
[File stamp: FILED, Superior Court of California, County of Orange, May 20, 2026, David H. Yamasaki, Clerk of the Court, By: R. Bracken, Deputy Clerk] SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF ORANGE SITTING AS THE JUVENILE COURT MISCELLANEOUS ORDER – M-2026-9 TITLE: AUTHORIZATION FOR THE RELEASE OF NAMES AND LOCATIONS OF MINORS SPECIFIED BY ATTORNEYS FROM THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE AND ADMITTANCE
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-29 (California T3 Orange build 2026-09-29) from BenchPath custody ca/t3/ca-orange/docs/m-2026-9.pdf (178114 bytes, sha256 604dd41b60581d7b5f98e6e84bd62bb2df3e9733a4f1c26c0e208f89b8b87e24; 2 pages) - the court's own posted PDF, a scan: transcribed by eye from the rendered page images, every page read against the image; a local machine reading (RapidOCR) served only as a second reader for a word-level diff, every difference classified and checked on the page; every quotation mark, apostrophe and dash checked in full-resolution crops; file stamps, handwritten dates and pages not transcribed are recorded in bracketed notes; printed irregularities are kept as printed. Signed May 20, 2026 by Judge Craig E. Arthur as Presiding Judge of the Juvenile Court; the court's Juvenile Courtroom Information page (read 2026-09-29) lists Judge Katherine E. Lewis as Presiding Judge of the Juvenile Court.
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.