SB1825 Summary

• Expands counsel requirement for minors under 18 (previously 15) during custodial interrogation in juvenile and criminal proceedings involving any offense.

• Requires law enforcement to read minors a specific rights statement in its entirety and ask two questions ("Do you want a lawyer?" and "Do you want to talk to me?") before custodial interrogation.

• Makes statements by minors without counsel present throughout entire custodial interrogation inadmissible as evidence in any juvenile court or criminal proceeding.

• Requires electronic recording of custodial interrogations of minors for certain offenses; statements are presumed inadmissible unless recording is substantially accurate and not intentionally altered.

• Preserves existing exceptions to recording requirements (statements in open court, spontaneous statements, out-of-state interrogations, and statements when electronic recording was infeasible).