FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA 
 
President Judge Administrative Order 
 
No 43 of 2020 
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In re:  Updated Protocol, Essential Delinquent Juvenile Proceedings 

 
ORDER 

AND NOW, this   1st        day of July 2020 under Pa.R.J.A. No 1952 

(B)(2), and the Judicial Emergency declared by the First Judicial District, it is 
ORDERED AND DECREED THAT the President Judge Administrative Order 
No 34 of 2020 remains in effect, with the exception of the paragraph pertaining to 
Juvenile Delinquency Matters, (paragraph 2 of Juvenile), which is hereby amended 
as follows: 

Delinquency Matters 
 

a.  Detention Hearings, Adjudicatory Hearings, Dispositional Hearings, Pretrial 
Hearings and Review Hearings shall continue to be conducted. Parties will 
receive notification of their rescheduled hearings. 
 

b.  Detention Hearings shall be conducted at the Philadelphia Juvenile Justice 
Services Center, (PJJSC) 91 North 48th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19139. 

c.  In cases where a juvenile is detained prior to the adjudicatory hearing, the 
Court may schedule the adjudicatory hearing more than 10 days after the 
filing of the petition or the pre-hearing conference, as deemed appropriate by 
the hearing officer or the judge. The Court shall conduct a status hearing to 
review the pretrial detention every ten (10) days until the adjudicatory hearing 
is scheduled. 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

BY THE COURT: 

 

 

 

/s/ Idee C. Fox 
 
 
 
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Idee C. Fox, President Judge 
Chair, Administrative Governing Board 
First Judicial District of Pennsylvania 
President Judge, Court of Common Pleas,    
Philadelphia County