Art. 402 Court of record

Every hearing in juvenile court gets officially recorded and written down. This means what happens in the courtroom, including what the judge says and what witnesses testify to, becomes part of a permanent record that can be looked at later.

This matters because it creates an official history of the case. If someone wants to appeal a decision or if there's a dispute later about what happened during a hearing, there's an actual record to check instead of just people's memories. Parents, kids, and others involved in juvenile cases can count on there being a real paper trail of what took place in court.