Maine Revised Statutes Title 15. Court Procedure--Criminal § 3308-D. Confidentiality of Juvenile Court proceedings

1. Record. A verbatim record must be made of all Juvenile Court proceedings.

2. Certain hearings public. Unless proceedings on a juvenile petition are suspended under section 3318-A, subsection 5, the general public may not be excluded from any Juvenile Court hearing for which the petition is open to public inspection under section 3308-C, subsection 2 or from any Juvenile Court hearing on a State’s motion for bind-over under section 3101, subsection 4.

3. Hearings on petitions alleging multiple juvenile crimes. When a juvenile petition open to public inspection under section 3308-C, subsection 2 alleges a juvenile crime that would constitute a Class D or Class E crime if the juvenile involved were an adult or a violation of section 3103, subsection 1, paragraph B or C arising from the same course of conduct, the Juvenile Court may order that charges alleging conduct that would be a Class D or Class E crime if the juvenile involved were an adult or a violation of section 3103, subsection 1, paragraph B or C be adjudicated in a separate hearing. When the Juvenile Court so orders, the general public must be excluded from the hearing on alleged conduct that would constitute a Class D or Class E crime if the juvenile were an adult or a violation of section 3103, subsection 1, paragraph B or C.

4. Victim presence at hearings. Regardless of whether a Juvenile Court proceeding is open to the general public, the following persons may be present in court: