Wescott

Defendants, Yuba County and Yuba County Sheriff’s Department, appeal from a declaratory judgment compelling release without a juvenile court order (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 827) records of the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department involving several juveniles involved in one specific episode requiring police investigation. A parent of one of the juveniles sought the entire record for use in a civil proceeding which she instituted against one or more of the other juveniles. The judgment directing release without a prior juvenile court order failed to distinguish situations where, as here, the records contain information pertaining to several other juveniles involved in the incident. We find that Welfare and Institutions Code section 827, as interpreted by the Supreme Court in T.N.G. v. Superior Court (1971) 4 Cal.3d 767 [ 94 Cal.Rptr. 813 , 484 P.2d 981 ], establishes that when minors are subjects of a police investigation and thereby become subjects of a police report, that report may not be released to one of the juveniles or an authorized representative without the consent of the others unless a court order is first obtained. Accordingly, we reverse.

Plaintiff is the mother of…