The Right to Parental Notification Introduction. The Alaska Supreme Court has said that this statute creates a right to parental notification, and that failure to comply with this statute will lead to the suppression of any subsequent confession obtained from the juvenile suspect. But the supreme court also has said that the right to parental notification can be waived by the juvenile himself.
Juvenile suspect in custody.
When a juvenile suspect is in custody, i.e. , has either been placed under arrest or subjected to restraint equivalent to arrest, then the juvenile has a right to parental notification before any questioning. These questions, and the juvenile s responses, should be tape-recorded. The officer should carefully document any efforts to contact the juvenile s parents. When the juvenile s parents are not available. Sometimes, after an arrested juvenile asks to speak to his parents, or asks to have his parents present during questioning, the officer will be unable to locate the juvenile s parents.