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

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

Documentation containing personal identifying information must be redacted in accordance with Practice Book 4-7.

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

CRITICALCriminal cases

Records disclosed under the standing order must not be disclosed again unless a subsequent court order specifically authorizes it.

Records disclosed pursuant to this standing order shall not be further disclosed, except as specifically authorized by a subsequent order of the court.

CRITICAL

Court-ordered evaluations and examinations are confidential and may be used only for the pending case for which they were ordered; other transmission, release, or use 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.

CRITICAL

Records may not be disclosed to the parties until after the motion hearing and the listed providers have had the opportunity to be heard as stated in their notice.

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.

WARNING

Redactions to proposed exhibits must be discussed and efforts made to resolve them before the trial management conference.

Any redactions to proposed exhibits shall be discussed and attempts to resolve prior to the TMC.

WARNINGCivil cases

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.

WARNING

Exhibits must comply with Practice Book § 4-7 concerning personal identifying information.

All exhibits shall comply with Practice Book § 4-7 regarding personal identifying information.

INFOCivil cases

Personally identifying information required on the specified court forms falls within the exception to 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.”