Tuolumne Superior Court Sealing & Redaction Procedures

CRITICAL

Parties filing documents in civil actions must exclude or redact Social Security numbers and financial account numbers as provided by California Rules of Court, rule 1.201.

a. When filing any documents with the Court in a civil action, parties shall exclude or redact Social Security numbers and financial account numbers as set forth at California Rules of Court, rule 1.201.

CRITICAL

A party seeking to file unredacted Social Security or financial account numbers may request permission by motion or ex parte application, and may file the document only upon court order.

b. A party wishing to file a document containing unredacted Social Security or financial account number(s) may submit a motion or ex parte application to file an unredacted document under seal. Such documents may be filed with the Court only upon order of the Court.

CRITICAL

Unless confidentiality is clearly required, court files are public; clerks may not redact confidential information without a court order, and parties and counsel are responsible for redacting such information before filing.

d. Unless clearly required to be confidential, court files are public records and are open to inspection by any member of the public. Court clerks are not authorized to redact any such confidential information absent court order. It is the responsibility of the parties and their counsel to redact any such information from any document presented for filing.

CRITICAL

Each complaint must be lodged separately in the juvenile court file in a sealed envelope.

Any complaint shall be lodged separately in the juvenile court file in a sealed envelope.

CRITICAL

The complaint hearing must be closed to the public and to the parties in the juvenile court proceeding.

The hearing shall not be open to the public or the parties to the juvenile court proceeding.

CRITICAL

Complaints, written responses, written determinations, and review-hearing comments or findings are subject to the confidentiality requirements of Welfare and Institutions Code section 827.

Any complaints, written responses to the complaints or written notification of the Court’s determination, and any comments or findings pursuant to a review hearing, as set forth in this rule, shall be subject to the confidentiality requirements established under Welfare & Institutions Code section 827.

WARNING

Original account statements and records filed with guardians’ and conservators’ accountings under Probate Code section 2620(c) are exempt from this local rule and must be filed or lodged as specified in section 2620(c)(7).

c. Original account statements and records filed with accountings of guardians and conservators pursuant to Probate Code section 2620, subdivision (c) shall be exempt from this local rule and shall be filed or lodged as set forth at section 2620, subdivision (c)(7).