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

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.

CRITICAL

Court-ordered evaluations and examinations are confidential and may be transmitted, released, or used only for the pending case unless the court previously authorizes otherwise.

F. 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 must not be disclosed to the parties until after the motion hearing and the listed providers have had the 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

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.

CRITICALCriminal cases

Records disclosed under the order may not be disclosed further 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.

WARNINGCriminal cases

For an arrest involving a delinquent act and a request for probable cause and detention, the order authorizes disclosure of specified information about the child to the requesting police officer.

Accordingly, pursuant to General Statutes Sections 46b-124 (e) and 46b-121 (b) (l), effective September 1, 2021, when a police officer arrests a child for a delinquent act and seeks a judicial finding of probable cause and an order to detain the child, this standing court order authorizes the following release of information to the requesting police officer: the child’s (l) prior unerased adjudications and/or convictions; (2) pending offenses; (3) probation status; (4) current court orders and/or conditions of release.

WARNINGCivil cases

Electronic exhibits uploaded to obtain Judgment of Foreclosure will be sealed by the clerk 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 falls within the Practice Book section 4-7(b) 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.”