The state Supreme Court has issued an order approving the final steps to expunge the records of all juveniles who appeared before former Luzerne County Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. between 2003 and 2008.

Ciavarella and fellow former Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Conahan have been charged by federal prosecutors with taking $2.8 million in payments from one of the former co-owners and the builder of PA Child Care and Western PA Child Care, two private, for-profit juvenile detention centers.