Such requirements leave in tatters the cloak of confidentiality that traditionally enveloped juvenile proceedings.

Around the country, juvenile proceedings are often already less opaque than critics assume.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals hears appeals on criminal cases excluding those involving juvenile proceedings.

The Times notes that in Arkansas, juvenile proceedings are usually closed to the public and press, but that the judge in this case had allowed a more open hearing.

Already today, the boys' lawyers were calling for significant changes in juvenile proceedings in Chicago, the home of the nation's first juvenile court.

The Court held that juveniles in juvenile criminal proceedings were not entitled to a jury trial by the Sixth or Fourteenth Amendments.

The sheriff offered no elaboration, saying the two teenagers were subject to closed juvenile proceedings until the court decided within the next month whether they should be tried as adults.

The Court allows exceptions but requires compelling reasons, like the need to protect important trade secrets or privacy in juvenile proceedings, to close a courtroom.

If the defendants are certified as juveniles, they will be tried in juvenile proceedings and, if found responsible, face punishments ranging from probation to boot camp to detention.

These were closed-door, juvenile proceedings, meant to protect children's identities.