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PART III COURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES
TITLE IV CERTAIN WRITS AND PROCEEDINGS IN SPECIAL CASES
Chapter 258E Harassment Prevention Orders
§ 10. Case Records of Minors.
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ALM GL ch. 258E, § 10 (2012)
The records of cases arising out of an action brought under this chapter in which the plaintiff or defendant is a minor
shall be withheld from public inspection except by order of the court; provided, however, that such records shall be
open, at all reasonable times, to the inspection of the minor, such minor's parent, guardian and attorney and to the
plaintiff and the plaintiff's attorney.
The plaintiff's residential address, residential telephone number and workplace name, address and telephone
number, contained within the court records of cases arising out of an action brought by a plaintiff under this chapter,
shall be confidential and withheld from public inspection, except by order of the court; provided, however, that the
plaintiff's residential address and workplace address shall appear on the court order and be accessible to the defendant
and the defendant's attorney unless the plaintiff specifically requests that this information be withheld from the order.
All confidential portions of the records shall be accessible at all reasonable times to the plaintiff and plaintiff's attorney,
to others specifically authorized by the plaintiff to obtain such information and to prosecutors, victim-witness advocates
as defined in section 1 of chapter 258B, sexual assault counselors as defined in section 20J of chapter 233 and law
officers, if such access is necessary in the performance of their duties. This paragraph shall apply to any protection order
issued by another jurisdiction filed with a court of the commonwealth pursuant to section 7. Such confidential portions
of the court records shall not be deemed to be public records under clause Twenty-sixth of section 7 of chapter 4.
HISTORY: 2010, 23.
NOTES: Editorial Note
Acts 2010, 23, effective May 10, 2010, enacted this section.