Superior Court, Judicial District of Danbury, Connecticut Sealing & Redaction Procedures

CRITICAL

Documentation containing personal identifying information must be redacted under Practice Book 4-7.

Any documentation with personal identifying information shall be redacted in accordance with Practice Book 4-7.

CRITICAL

Records ordered disclosed must be reviewed at court and may not be removed from the courthouse.

Any records ordered by the court to be disclosed to the parties shall be reviewed at court. No records subject to this section shall be removed from the courthouse.

CRITICAL

The records must not be disclosed to the parties until after the motion hearing and the noticed providers have had an opportunity to be heard.

The records shall not be disclosed to the parties until after the hearing on the motion and the providers listed in the motion have had an opportunity to be heard, as provided in their notice.

CRITICAL

Court-ordered evaluations and examinations are confidential and limited to the pending case for which they were ordered; transmission, release, or use outside that case requires a prior court order.

All court ordered evaluations and examinations are confidential and are solely for the uses/purposes in the pending case(s) for which the order was granted. No court ordered evaluation, in part or whole, shall be transmitted, released, or used orally or in writing other than as appropriate in the pending juvenile case(s), unless there is a prior order of the court authorizing such transmission, release, or use.

WARNING

The clerk will seal electronic exhibits uploaded to obtain Judgment of Foreclosure at the hearing.

Electronic Exhibits uploaded in order to obtain Judgment of Foreclosure will be sealed by the clerk at the time of the hearing.

WARNINGCivil cases

Personally identifying information required on the specified court forms is excepted from redaction requirements.

All information required on Judicial Branch Superior Court Family and Family Support Magistrate Court forms that constitutes personally identifying information as defined by Connecticut Practice Book section 4-7(a) is deemed by this order to be within the section 4-7(b) exception to redaction requirements as information “…otherwise required by law or ordered by the court.”