Union Leader Corp. v. N.H. Dep't of Safety

Summary

The court held that records related to juvenile delinquency proceedings are not categorically exempt from disclosure under the Right-to-Know Law merely because they concern incidents involving juveniles. The confidentiality provision protects information whose disclosure would undermine the rehabilitative purposes of the juvenile delinquency statutes, while factual information about governmental responses may be disclosable, potentially in redacted form. Because the record was insufficient to determine which requested information could be disclosed, the court reversed and remanded.