Monday, March 11, 2013

My school filed a PINS Diversion against my child for lateness/cutting classes. I refused to sign personal document release

Q:  forms(5 total) Are we entitled to a lawyer? to protect our rights. Can we just go through the pins case with the school documents and no personal information disclosed? i.e.; medical records,mental health,etc.What can I do to make sure our rights are not violated? we have a few days to decide if were going to comply with their requests.


A:  David's Answer:  You have a right to object at the stage you're at, but if you object they will likely file a petition & then Probation can simply subpoena the records anyway. If your concern is limting the release to attendance records only, then you have a right to specify same in the authorization.   -- David Bliven, Westchester Co. Family Law attorney (www.blivenlaw.net)

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