2023 Texas Statutes › Code of Criminal Procedure › Title 1 - Code of Criminal Procedure › Chapter 62 - Sex Offender Registration Program › Subchapter H. Exemptions From Registration for Certain Juveniles › Article 62.353. Motion, Hearing, and Order Concerning Person Already Registered

(a)  A person who has registered as a sex offender for an adjudication of delinquent conduct, regardless of when the delinquent conduct or the adjudication for the conduct occurred, may file a motion in the adjudicating juvenile court for a hearing seeking:
(1)  exemption from registration under this chapter as provided by Article 62.351; or
(2)  an order under Article 62.352(b)(2) that the registration become nonpublic.
(b)  The person may file a motion under Subsection (a) in the original juvenile case regardless of whether the person, at the time of filing the motion, is 18 years of age or older.  Notice of the motion shall be provided to the prosecuting attorney.  A hearing on the motion shall be provided as in other cases under this subchapter.
(c)  Only one subsequent motion may be filed under Subsection (a) if a previous motion under this article has been filed concerning the case.
(d)  To the extent feasible, the motion under Subsection (a) shall identify those public and private agencies and organizations, including public or private institutions of higher education, that possess sex offender registration information about the case.
(e)  The juvenile court, after a hearing, may:
(1)  deny a motion filed under Subsection (a);
(2)  grant a motion described by Subsection (a)(1); or
(3)  grant a motion described by Subsection (a)(2).
(f)  If the court grants a motion filed under Subsection (a), the clerk of the court shall by certified mail, return receipt requested, send a copy of the order to the department, to each local law enforcement authority that the person has proved to the juvenile court has registration information about the person, and to each public or private agency or organization that the person has proved to the juvenile court has information about the person that is currently available to the public with or without payment of a fee.  The clerk of the court shall by certified mail, return receipt requested, send a copy of the order to any other agency or organization designated by the person.  The person shall identify the agency or organization and its address and pay a fee of $20 to the court for each agency or organization the person designates.
(g)  In addition to disseminating the order under Subsection (f), at the request of the person, the clerk of the court shall by certified mail, return receipt requested, send a copy of the order to each public or private agency or organization that at any time following the initial dissemination of the order under Subsection (f) gains possession of sex offender registration information pertaining to that person, if the agency or organization did not otherwise receive a copy of the order under Subsection (f).
(h)  An order under Subsection (f) must require the recipient to conform its records to the court's order either by deleting the sex offender registration information or changing its status to nonpublic, as applicable.  A public or private institution of higher education may not be required to delete the sex offender registration information under this subsection.
(i)  A private agency or organization that possesses sex offender registration information the agency or organization obtained from a state, county, or local governmental entity is required to conform the agency's or organization's records to the court's order on or before the 30th day after the date of the entry of the order.  Unless the agency or organization is a public or private institution of higher education, failure to comply in that period automatically bars the agency or organization from obtaining sex offender registration information from any state, county, or local governmental entity in this state in the future.
Reenacted and amended by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1008 (H.B. 867), Sec. 1.01, eff. September 1, 2005.