The original court records for juveniles who were sent to Luzerne County detention facilities in the “kids-for-cash” scandal will stay closed, a federal judge ruled this week.
The detention centers agreed in 2009, soon after the civil class-action suit was filed against them, to a protective order limiting the discovery documents that could be disclosed, including the juveniles’ original court records. Those records were expunged in the wake of the scandal that sent two former judges to jail. The detention facilities Mid-Atlantic Youth Services, PA Child Care and Western PA Child Care asked the court to allow them to show the records to sanctioned parties in an informal setting rather than through an expensive deposition process.
