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Juvenile court records may greatly affect your child’s employment, education and other future opportunities. However, juveniles may have an option to seal or expunge their records. In New Jersey, if juvenile court records are sealed they are not open to the public.

The governor is the only person who has the right to grant a pardon in New Jersey.

The cash bail system no longer exists in New Jersey. Through bail reform the monetary bail system was replaced with an algorithm that provides the prosecutors and courts a score on a defendants individual flight risk or danger to the community. This assessment is then used to determine whether the State will seek detention and the likelihood that one will be released.

Yes. The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that the Division on Civil Rights may obtain such information in order to fulfill its mission to eliminate unlawful discrimination in housing. See N.J. Builders, Owners and Managers Association v. Blair, 60 N.J. 330 (1972).