11th Judicial Circuit Court, Livingston County, Illinois Sealing & Redaction Procedures

Materials provided to counsel or parties must omit jurors’ home addresses and dates of birth, but may disclose their city of residence and year of birth.

Juror home addresses and dates of birth shall not be included in materials provided to counsel or parties. Disclosure of city of residence and year of birth is allowed.

Financial documents, bank records, and income-and-expense affidavits admitted as exhibits must be filed under Supreme Court Rule 138 and are considered impounded unless the court orders otherwise.

Any financial document, bank record or affidavit of income and expenses offered and received as an exhibit shall be filed in accordance with Supreme Court Rule 138, and shall be considered impounded, unless the court orders otherwise.

All collected juror information is impounded unless the court orders otherwise.

All information collected is considered impounded unless ordered otherwise.

Juror questionnaires and qualification forms must not require Social Security numbers.

Social Security numbers shall not be required on the juror questionnaire or qualification form.

Exhibits containing information covered by the cited rules or otherwise specified by statute, rule, or court direction must be assigned an appropriate public, impounded, confidential, or sealed status by court order.

Exhibits which contain confidential information as defined by SCR 15, SCR 138 or SCR 364, those exhibits specified by Illinois Statute or Rule, or as otherwise directed by the Court, shall be either ordered to be public, impounded, confidential or ordered sealed.

Mediation coordinator and mediator documents must be kept confidential and maintained separately for the judge, except for official reports to the court; they are not official court records.

All documents used by the mediation coordinator and the mediator, except for official reports to the court regarding the results of the mediation or pre- mediation conference, are to be kept confidential and will be maintained in a separate place for the use of the judge. They are not official court records.