In re J.L. CA2/7

DISCUSSION

The Department argues Mother’s appeal is moot and should be dismissed. We agree and decline Mother’s request that we undertake a discretionary review of the merits of her moot appeal.

An order for informal supervision under section 360, subdivision (b), is appealable. (See In re Adam D. (2010) 183 Cal.App.4th 1250, 1261.) We grant the Department’s request for judicial notice of the juvenile court’s register of actions, which shows the Department did not file a new petition during the informal supervision period. (Evid. Code, § 452, subd. (d) [court may take judicial notice of court records]).

3 A. Mootness Doctrine and Dependency Appeals “A court is tasked with the duty ‘ “to decide actual controversies by a judgment which can be carried into effect, and not to give opinions upon moot questions or abstract propositions, or to declare principles or rules of law which cannot affect the matter in issue in the case before it.” ’ ” (In re D.P. (2023) 14 Cal.5th 266, 276; see In re I.A. (2011) 201 Cal.App.4th 1484, 1490.) “A case becomes moot when events ‘ “render[ ] it impossible for [a] court, if it should decide the case in favor of [the appellant], to…