In re J.B.
Defendant and appellant J.B. (Minor) appeals the denial of his request to seal his court and school records pursuant to former Welfare and Institutions Code section 786, subdivision (e).[1] In 2010 and 2011, Minor had three petitions filed against him pursuant to section 602 for three separate offenses. The third petition involved an incident on school grounds and was dismissed pursuant to a negotiated disposition in 2011. He successfully completed probation for the first two petitions and the juvenile court agreed to dismiss and seal the records for those two petitions pursuant to section 786. However, the juvenile court denied his request to seal education records for the third petition on the grounds that Minor had failed to establish he successfully completed probation on that petition, so it was not in a position to exercise its discretion for the dismissed petition.
Minor claims that the third petition, which was not adjudicated, was subject to section 786, subdi
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