Juvenile Delinquency

What Your Attorney Wants You to Know About Your Juvenile
Delinquency Case is a booklet for Youth, Rights & Justice clients who are being represented on delinquency charges. This booklet is intended to provide general information that may answer questions that juvenile clients have about their case and not to give legal advice. Clients should always discuss their questions and obtain legal advice from their attorney. The same publication is available in a Spanish version: Lo Que Tu Abogodo Quiere Que Sepas Acerca de Tu Caso De Delincuencia Juvenil.

Getting Your Record Expunged is intended to answer some questions about getting your record expunged, along with several documents provided by Multnomah County as follows:

• Expunction Application
• Expunction Information - English Language Version
• Expunction Information - Russian Language Version
• Expunction Information - Spanish Language Version

Juvenile Sex Offender Registration

More than 2,500 individuals in Oregon are required to register as sex offenders in Oregon as the result of a juvenile court adjudication. Youth, Rights & Justice may be able to refer individuals who are eligible to petition for relief from registration under Oregon law to legal resources.  Services to individuals who cannot afford to pay for a lawyer are available on a limited basis. 

As of January 1, 2012, persons who have been adjudicated in juvenile court of a Class A or B felony sex offense must wait two years after juvenile court jurisdiction ends to apply for relief.  Those who were ajdudicated of a Class C offense may apply no more than 30 days prior to the end of juvenile court jurisdiction.  Pursuant to a law passed in 2011 (SB 408), there will no longer be a three-year time limit to apply for relief once the law goes into effect 1/1/12.  After that date, youth adjudicated of misdemeanor offenses will no longer be required to register, and the Oregon State Police will remove individuals previously registered for juvenile misdemeanor adjudications over a 12 month period starting 1/1/12.

For more information, see our SB 408 Frequently Asked Questions or the guide below.

Juvenile Sex Offender Information Booklet: Requirement, Penalties and Relief (pdf)