States Are Failing to Protect Juvenile Records, Study Shows [JJIE.org]

P.S.:... KUDOS to the Juvenile Law Center for conducting this 18 month study, and the John D. And Catherine MacArthur Foundation for financing it. ! ! ! 

I had the "embarrassment" of my [supposedly sealed] "youthful offender" adjudication being found by a news reporter, during my candidacy for County Legislature, In New York State. I advised the reporter, that it was a "youthful offender adjudication" and it was supposed to have been sealed. Some years later, while working as an {Armed) Aviation Public Safety Officer (Crash-Fire-Rescue/Law Enforcement/Emergency Medical), it surfaced again, when the State Police in my current state of residence found an "incomplete listing"  in a national computer system...I contacted an attorney back in New York, who investigated first, and found over two-hundred supposedly "sealed" youthful offender [paper records] adjudications, in the County Clerk's office which were not properly sealed in their entirety, and he advised a judge of that-who not only ordered mine properly sealed, but the other 200 youthful offender adjudications which the  attorney found in the County Clerk's office, as well as an order directing New York's computer system to notify the federal system, of corrections, as well. During my [incarcerated] Adjudication, I had read Eric Erikson's "Identity: Youth and Crisis", because I didn't want to be an "Ex-con" when I got out.