O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-11-473 (2019)

Conduct of delinquency proceeding by prosecuting attorney; access to information

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) A prosecuting attorney shall conduct delinquency proceedings on behalf of the state.

(b) Except as provided in Article 9 of this chapter, in any delinquency proceeding, the prosecuting attorney shall be entitled to complete access to all court files, probation files, hearing transcripts, delinquency reports, and any other juvenile court records. It shall be the duty of the clerk, probation and intake officer, probation officers of the juvenile court, community supervision officers, and DJJ to assist a prosecuting attorney in obtaining any requested items.

History

Code 1981, § 15-11-473, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 294, § 1-1/HB 242; Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 5-12/HB 310.

Annotations

Cross references. - Prosecuting attorneys, T. 15, C. 18. Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 6-1/HB 310, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part, that the

amendment by this Act shall apply to sentences entered on or after July 1, 2015.

Law reviews. - For article, ‘‘The Prosecuting Attorney in Georgia’s Juvenile Courts,’’ see 13 Ga. St. B. J. 27 (2008). For article on the 2015 amendment of this Code section, see 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 231 (2015).