Santa Barbara Superior Court Sealing & Redaction Procedures

CRITICAL

In other cases, the parties must comply with CRC 2.550 and 2.551.

Otherwise, the parties shall comply with CRC 2.550 and 2.551.

CRITICAL

If any part of an e-lodged record is confidential, the lodging party must clearly identify and separate the record into a public-access version, if any portion is not confidential, and a confidential version.

If any part of the e-lodged record is confidential, the party lodging the e-lodged record must clearly identify and separate the record into a public access version, if any part is not confidential, and a confidential version.

WARNING

Complaint proceedings and related records must remain private and confidential, subject to the stated rule-based and legal exceptions.

All complaint proceedings will occur in private and will be kept confidential. No information or records concerning the receipt, investigation, or resolution of an inquiry or a complaint will be open to the public or disclosed outside the course of the complaint proceeding except as provided in rule 3.871(d) of the California Rules of Court or as otherwise required by law.

WARNING

Unless the court orders otherwise, recipients may not release or disseminate documents served under this rule to third parties, except counsel or retained experts; parties may use or disclose their own documents or information.

(2) Except as otherwise ordered by the court, parties and counsel receiving documents served pursuant to this rule shall not release such documents or disseminate any information contained in those documents to any third party other than counsel or experts retained for the purposes of the family law proceeding. This rule does not limit a party’s use or disclosure of that party’s own documents or information.

WARNING

Complaint proceedings must preserve the confidentiality of mediation communications, including communications between the mediator and individual participants or participant subgroups.

All complaint proceedings will be conducted in a manner that preserves the confidentiality of mediation communications, including but not limited to the confidentiality of any communications between the mediator and individual mediation participants or subgroups of mediation participants.