N.J. Div. of Child Prot. & Permanency v. M.C. (In re J.C.-R.)

SABATINO, P.J.A.D.

*573This appeal involves the standards and procedures for in camera review and judicial disclosure of a parent's presumptively-confidential juvenile records in child welfare litigation brought by the Division of Child Protection and Permanency ("the Division"). Although juvenile records disclosure issues have arisen before in other settings, no published opinion to date has addressed them in the context of child welfare litigation brought by the Division.

The Law Guardian in this case objected to a father having unsupervised parenting time with his eighteen-month-old daughter,…