Sacramento Superior Court Sealing & Redaction Procedures

In Mental Health Diversion cases, personal mental health and medical information must be filed in a separate sealed envelope attached to the related filing, and the court treats such information as presumptively confidential.

In any case where a Mental Health Diversion application has been filed pursuant to Penal Code section 1001.36, the parties shall file all personal mental health and medical information presented on the petition in a separate sealed envelope attached to the application, opposition, or other related filing.

Mediation resulting from a Petition for Confidential Mediation is confidential; no mediation report may be offered to the court except as authorized by law, and the petition must be filed with the Office of Family Court Services.

Mediation resulting from a Petition for Confidential Mediation shall be confidential and, except as otherwise authorized by law, there shall be no mediation report offered to the court. A Petition for Confidential Mediation shall be filed with the clerk of the court in the Office of Family Court Services, room 104.