In re Guardianship of A.S.

Dooley, J.,

¶ 20. concurring. In my view, the probate court had no authority to issue the order it did. The authorization to seal court records to protect confidentiality does not grant a court the power to rewrite history by eliminating any record of an event so that it never occurred. I therefore reject the majority’s premise that this order was a matter of discretion for the probate court. Because I agree, however, that the probate court’s order must be overturned, I concur with the majority’s disposition of this case.

¶ 21. To put this decision in perspective, we need to distinguish two…