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            (1) “Department” means the Department of Children and Family Services.

            (2) “Protected person” means any person who is a victim of a crime or a witness in a juvenile proceeding and who either:

            (a) Is under the age of eighteen years.

            (b) Has a developmental disability as defined in La. Rev. Stat. 28:451.2(12).

            (3) “Videotape” means the visual recording on a magnetic tape, film, videotape, compact disc, digital versatile disc, digital video disc, or by other electronic means together with the associated oral record.

            Acts 1991, No. 235, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2004, No. 241, §2; Acts 2007, No. 70, §2; Acts 2022, No. 202, §1.