Pennsylvania Code
Title 37 - LAW
Part III - Agencies and Offices
Subpart N - Juvenile Court Judges' Commission
Chapter 200 - JUVENILE COURT JUDGES' COMMISSION
Subchapter E - STANDARDS GOVERNING SEARCHES OF THE PERSON AND PROPERTY OF CHILDREN BY JUVENILE PROBATION OFFICERS
PROPERTY SEARCHES
Section 200.437 - Additional requirements

(a) Except when exigent circumstances are present, juvenile probation officers shall receive the approval of a supervisor to conduct a property search.

(b) Juvenile probation supervisors and administrators may conduct a property search without prior approval.

(c) The child may be detained for safety reasons if the child is present during a property search. Temporary confinement or restraint is permissible as long as the confinement ends as soon as it is reasonably safe to do so.

(d) If the child is not present during a property search, the probation officer in charge of the search shall make a reasonable effort to provide the child and the child's parent/guardian with notice of the search, including an inventory of the items seized, after the search is completed.

(e) Conditions of supervision for children under the supervision of probation officers as delinquent children, or pursuant to a consent decree, shall include a statement notifying the child that a property search may be conducted by a probation officer if there is reasonable suspicion to believe that the real or other property, in the possession of or under the control of the child, contains contraband or other evidence of violations of the conditions of supervision.