Circuit Court of Grundy County, Illinois (13th Judicial Circuit) Sealing & Redaction Procedures

CRITICAL

Social security numbers in filed or open-court documents must be redacted so that only the last four digits are visible, subject to the stated exceptions.

An individual’s social security number which appears in any pleading, attachment to pleading, order, exhibit, or other document filed in the court file or filed in open court shall be redacted so only the last four digits are visible with the following exceptions:

CRITICAL

An original Qualified Domestic Relations Order containing social security numbers in a divorce file must be impounded by the Circuit Clerk and may be opened only by court order.

Any original Qualified Domestic Relations Order filed in divorce files in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit which contain social security numbers shall be impounded by the Circuit Clerk, only to be opened by order of the court.

CRITICAL

The Child Support Data Sheet attached to a Uniform Order of Support must contain social security numbers, be impounded by the Circuit Clerk, and be used for child support enforcement according to law.

The “Child Support Data Sheet”, attached as an Exhibit to the Uniform Order of Support, shall contain social security numbers and be impounded by the Circuit Clerk and used for child support enforcement according to law.

WARNING

Financial Affidavits and their supporting documentary evidence are not part of the public record unless the court orders otherwise.

Consistent with section 501(a)(1), no Financial Affidavit and supporting documentary evidence shall be made part of the public record unless otherwise ordered by the court.