Matter of N.H.B.

GREENWOOD, Judge:

Kearns-Tribune Corporation appeals the juvenile court’s order excluding the press from attending a juvenile court hearing on a motion to recall jurisdiction. Kearns-Tribune asserts that juvenile court proceedings should be presumptively open to the press and public, and that the juvenile court erred in closing the hearing without entering specific findings that closure was essential to preserve higher values and narrowly tailoring its closure order to serve those values. We affirm.

N.H.B., a juvenile, was charged in Fifth Circuit Court with aggravated kidnapping and attempted…