Police Commissioner v. Municipal Court of Dorchester District

How courts have described this case

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• sealing orders require courts to \segregate [the sealed] records from the generality of records and to ensure their confidentiality to the extent specified in the controlling statute\
• Juvenile Court judge has jurisdiction to order that certain police records concerning a juvenile be expunged in particular circumstances
• lack of general equity jurisdiction irrelevant in light of powers granted by statute as to matters involving juveniles
• no valid law enforcement purpose served by maintaining inaccurate records that have no bearing on a person’s likelihood of reoffending
• Juvenile Court “judge has very broad discretion ... to further the child’s best interests”
• courts may consider and decide matters ancillary or incidental to main cause of action even if ancillary matter, standing on its own, would not be within court’s original jurisdiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).