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E.C. v. GUARDIAN AD LITEM PROGRAM, DEPT. OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

No. 4D03-4266.

867 So.2d 1193 (2004)

E.C., a minor child, Petitioner, v. GUARDIAN AD LITEM PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, A.C., mother, and R.P., father, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

March 3, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William W. Booth of Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, Inc., West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

Timothy M. Beasley and Dawn Wilson, West Palm Beach, for respondent Guardian Ad Litem Program.

Jeffrey Dana Gillen, West Palm Beach, for respondent Department of Children and Families.

GROSS, J.

This petition for certiorari challenges the standard appointment order of the Guardian Ad Litem Program in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit which allows the program unrestricted access to the child's mental health records even without the child's knowledge or consent.

We grant the petition and quash the orders tacitly approving the form order.

E.C. is a seventeen-year-old child in the custody of the Department of Children and Families as a...

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