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PUBLIC LAW 88-241-DEC. 23, 1963

§11-1585. Payment of fines, costs, etc., to clerk; deposit; accounting Fines, penalties, costs, and forfeitures imposed or taxed by the Juvenile Court shall be paid to the clerk of the court, either with or without process, or on process ordered by the court. The clerk of the court shall, on the first secular day of each week, deposit with the Board of Commissioners or its authorized representative the total amount of all fines, penalties, costs, and forfeitures collected by him during the week next preceding the date of the deposit, to be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia. The clerk shall render an itemized statement of each deposit to the Board or its authorized representative. §11-1586. R e c o r d s; limited inspection; penalties for unlawful disclosure or use (a) The Juvenile Court shall maintain records of all cases brought before the court pursuant to subchapter I of chapter 23 of Title 16. The records shall be withheld from indiscriminate public inspection but shall be open to inspection only by respondents, their parents or guardians and their duly authorized attorneys, and by the institution or agency to which the respondent under l8 years of age may have been committed pursuant to sections 16-2307 and 16-2308. Pursuant to rule or special order of the court, other interested persons, institutions, and agencies may inspect the records. As used in this subsection, "records" includes: (1) notices filed with the court by arresting officers pursuant to section 16-2306; (2) the docket of the court and entries therein; (3) the petitions, complaints, informations, motions, and other papers filed in a case; (4) transcripts of testimony taken in a case tried by the Court; (5) findings, verdicts, judgments, orders and decrees; and (6) other writings filed in proceedings before the court, other than social records. (b) The records or parts thereof made by officers of the court pursuant to sections 11-1525 and 16-2302, referred to in subsection (a) of this section as social records, shall be withheld from indiscriminate public inspection, except that they shall be made available by rule or special order of court to such persons, governmental and private agencies, and institutions as have a legitimate interest in the protection, welfare, treatment, and rehabilitation of the child under 18 years of age, and to any court before which the child may appear. The court may also provide by rule or a judge may provide by special order that any such person or agency may make or receive copies of the records or parts thereof. Persons, agencies, or institutions receiving records or information pursuant to this subsection may not publish or use them for any purpose other than that for which they were received. (c) Whoever, except for the purposes permitted and in the manner provided by subsections (a) and (b) of this section, discloses, receives, or makes use of, or authorizes, knowingly permits, participates in, or acquiesces in, the use of information concerning a juvenile before the court, directly or indirectly derived from the records, papers, files, or communications of the court, or acquired in the course of official duties, upon conviction thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both.

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