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The Office of the County Counsel — attorneys, paralegals and investigators defending the County or its employees against litigation, claims or potential claims stemming from a dependency action — may inspect and copy the juvenile case file without filing a JV-570 petition; documents the court releases on a JV-570 petition relating to such a civil suit are also released to the Lead Deputy County Counsel; section 827(a)(4) privacy protection is unchanged and no party may further disseminate released documents without court approval.
California > Sixth Appellate District > Santa Clara County > Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara > Juvenile Division
[File stamp: FILED, APR 12 2018, Clerk of the Court, Superior Court of CA County of Santa Clara, By: [signature], Deputy, DUARTE (the first initial under the signature)] SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA JUVENILE DIVISION ORDER STANDING ORDER FOR ACCESS TO JUVENILE DEPENDENCY CASE FILE BY ATTORNEYS REPRESENTING THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA IN CIVIL LITIGATION MATTERS STEMMING FROM A DEPENDENCY ACTION Minors, parents or guardians involved in civil lawsuits or claims stemming from juvenile dependency cases, and by extension their counsel, have access to inspect and obtain copies of the juvenile case file. (See Welfare and Institutions Code (WIC) sections 827(a)(1)(C) and (D) and 827(a)(5)). Attorneys representing the petitioning agency in a dependency action also have access to the juvenile case file; in the County of Santa Clara, those attorneys are in the Office of the County Counsel (See WIC section 827(a)(1)(F)). The Office of the County Counsel also defends and advises the County in litigation and claims threatening litigation, stemming from juvenile dependency actions. To assess and defend those matters, it is essential and reasonable for the Office of the County Counsel to have the same access to the juvenile case file as do minors, parents, or guardians bringing lawsuits and claims or threatening to do so. FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN, THE COURT MAKES THE FOLLOWING ORDERS: 1. The Office of the County Counsel, including attorneys, paralegals, and investigators involved in defending the County of Santa Clara and its employee(s) against litigation, claims, or potential claims stemming from a dependency action, are permitted to inspect and obtain copies of the underlying juvenile case file without filing a Request for Disclosure of Juvenile Case File (JV-570) petition. 2. When a Request for Disclosure of Juvenile Case File petition is filed with the Court relating to a civil lawsuit or a possible civil lawsuit against the County of Santa Clara or its employee(s), any documents released to the petitioner by the Court will also be released to the Lead Deputy County Counsel overseeing the litigation. 3. Protection of privacy rights of the minor and other parties in the juvenile court proceedings under WIC Section 827(a)(4) is not changed by this Order. No party may further disseminate the released juvenile case file documents without prior court approval. SO ORDERED: Dated this 12 day of APRIL, 2018. [signature] Honorable Shawna Schwarz Supervising Judge of the Juvenile Court
[File stamp: FILED, APR 12 2018, Clerk of the Court, Superior Court of CA County of Santa Clara, By: [signature], Deputy, DUARTE (the first initial under the signature)] SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA JUVENILE DIVISION ORDER STANDING ORDER FOR ACCESS TO JUVENILE DEPENDENCY CASE FILE BY ATTORNEYS REPRESENTING THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA IN CIVIL LITIGATION MATTERS STEMMING FROM A
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-28 (California T3 Santa Clara build 2026-09-28) from BenchPath custody ca/t3/ca-santa-clara/juv/442djuv_dependency.pdf (51296 bytes, sha256 df891af18b1810f68486de63d6f64ee677c65e1763f550c7a44d9226576472b6; 2 pages) - the court's own posted PDF, a scan: transcribed from the rendered page images, every page read against the image; a machine reading (RapidOCR) was used only as a second reader for a word-level diff, every difference classified (misreadings, the file stamp and caption overprints, pleading line numbers, page numbers and running footers omitted as chrome), and each line the machine reader skipped was re-read in a full-resolution crop; every quotation mark, apostrophe, dash and section sign checked in full-resolution crops; the file stamp and the signatures are bracketed. The day and month in “Dated this 12 day of APRIL, 2018” are handwritten. Printed irregularities are kept as printed.
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.