A bill to require the fingerprinting of juvenile delinquents upon conviction or adjudication and to forbid the withholding of information from criminal trials on the grounds such information relates to a juvenile proceeding.

Summary

Declares it the duty of appropriate Federal, State, local, and territorial authorities to take and keep on record for two years following confinement the fingerprints of each individual convicted or adjudicated under laws permitting partially or wholly noncriminal treatment due to the age of the offender, for the commission of any act which would be treated as a criminal offense if committed by an older person. Stipulates that no information regarding the record of a person charged with a criminal offense against the laws of the United States, a State, the District of Columbia, or any territory or possession of the United States shall be withheld from any court trying such person on the grounds that such information related to juvenile proceedings if such proceedings related to an act which would have been a criminal offense if such person had been an adult.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 6 January 1977

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