Tenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, Hardee, Highlands and Polk Counties Sealing & Redaction Procedures

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Parties submitting orders are responsible for ensuring confidential information in filings is appropriately redacted or identified for redaction.

Effective July 1, 2021, parties submitting orders are solely responsible for ensuring any confidential information contained in filings in these cases is appropriately redacted or identified for redaction.

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Parties submitting orders are responsible for ensuring confidential information in the filings is appropriately redacted or identified for redaction.

Effective July 1, 2021, parties submitting orders are solely responsible for ensuring any confidential information contained in the filings is appropriately redacted or identified for redaction.

CRITICALCivil cases

The petitioner must not share information received from a financial institution through the petition except with the Clerk of Court or the Probate Court.

Petitioner understands that the information received from any financial institution via this Petition, is not to be shared with anyone or anything other than the Clerk of Court and/or the Probate Court.

CRITICALCivil cases

Parties submitting orders are responsible for ensuring confidential information is appropriately redacted or identified for redaction.

Effective July 1, 2021, parties submitting orders are solely responsible for ensuring any confidential information contained in the filings is appropriately redacted or identified for redaction. All parties submitting an order, including attorneys and self- represented litigants, will be required to file a Notice of Confidential Information in

CRITICALCivil cases

The clerk must keep the decision and any transcripts confidential, except that the decision may be disclosed if no trial-de-novo request is filed within 20 days after service and the presiding judge requests it; a timely request keeps the decision under seal.

Since the decision and any transcripts are filed under seal, the clerk will not make the arbitrator’s decision or transcripts known to anyone, including the presiding judge, unless no request for trial de novo is filed within twenty (20) days of service on the parties of the decision and the presiding judge request the decision. If a request for trial de novo is timely filed, the clerk will continue to maintain the arbitrators' decision under seal.

CRITICALCivil cases

Arbitrators must file the decision and any transcripts under seal so they are not disclosed to anyone, including the presiding judge.

Arbitrators are required to file their decision and transcripts (if any) under seal so that the decision is not made known to anyone, including the presiding judge.

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Parties submitting orders are responsible for ensuring confidential information in filings is appropriately redacted or identified for redaction.

Effective July 1, 2021, parties submitting orders are solely responsible for ensuring any confidential information contained in the filings is appropriately redacted or identified for redaction.

CRITICALCivil cases

The arbitrator must file the decision and any original transcripts with the Clerk in a sealed envelope marked as exempt from public access.

The arbitrator shall file his or her decision and the original of any transcripts with the Clerk of the Courts in a sealed envelope and on the face of the envelope indicate the contents are exempt from public access pursuant to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.820 (g) (3).

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Parties submitting orders must ensure confidential information in filings is redacted or identified for redaction.

Parties submitting orders are solely responsible for ensuring any confidential information contained in the filings is appropriately redacted or identified for redaction.

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The clerk reviews filings identified as confidential, must notify the filer in writing within 5 days if the information is not confidential, and may not hold the records confidential for more than 10 days unless a motion is filed under Rule 2.420(d)(3).

Note: The clerk of court shall review filings identified as containing confidential information to determine whether the information is facially subject to confidentiality under the identified provision. The clerk shall notify the filer in writing within 5 days if the clerk determines that the information is NOT subject to confidentiality, and the records shall not be held as confidential for more than 10 days, unless a motion is filed pursuant to subdivision(d)(3) of Rule 2.420.

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Parties submitting orders are responsible for ensuring confidential information in case filings is redacted or identified for redaction.

c. Effective July 1, 2021, parties submitting orders are solely responsible for ensuring any confidential information contained in filings in these cases is appropriately redacted or identified for redaction.

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The attorney preparing the proposed order is responsible for ensuring confidential information in filings is redacted or identified for redaction.

Effective July 1, 2021, the attorney who prepares the proposed order will be solely responsible for ensuring any confidential information contained in filings is appropriately redacted or identified for redaction.

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Parties submitting orders must ensure confidential information is appropriately redacted or identified for redaction.

Effective July 1, 2021, parties submitting orders are solely responsible for ensuring any confidential information contained in filings in these cases is appropriately redacted or identified for redaction.

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Parties submitting orders are responsible for ensuring confidential information in the filings is appropriately redacted or identified for redaction.

Effective July 1, 2021, parties submitting orders are solely responsible for ensuring any confidential information contained in filings in these cases is appropriately redacted or identified for redaction.

WARNINGCivil cases

The arbitration decision may be filed under seal with the clerk so that the presiding judge does not learn the decision unless no timely request for a trial de novo is made.

WHEREAS, in accordance with section 44.103(5), Florida Statutes, and Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.820(g)(3), it is necessary to provide a method by which the arbitration decision may be filed under seal with the clerk so that the decision is not made known to the presiding judge unless no timely request for a trial de novo is made; and