A provision in the Pennsylvania Juvenile Act requiring disclosure of juveniles’ court records to their “school” includes colleges, the state Superior Court has ruled.
The split panel’s decision could be bad news for S.D., a minor who was adjudicated for sexual abuse of children just months before he left for college after authorities found hundreds of images of child pornography on his home computer. The decision is also, according to the defendant’s attorney, an unprecedented extension of the school notification provision to a college or university.
