14th Judicial Circuit Court, Rock Island County Sealing & Redaction Procedures

This document must be filed under seal pursuant to the applicable Local Rule.

Pursuant to Local Rule this document to be filed under seal.

Public pleadings should omit full dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and children's Social Security numbers, although a child's age and the last four digits of a Social Security number may be used publicly.

In an effort to limit identity theft, the following information should not be contained in pleadings open to the general public and filed with the Circuit Clerk: a. Date of Birth b. Social Security Number (it is acceptable to identify the last four digits in the public portion of the record) c. Driver's License Number d. Children's Date of Birth (acceptable to identify the age of the child at the time of the pleading) e. Children's Social Security Number

The specified confidential information should be submitted to the Circuit Clerk under seal using the required Confidential Disclosure Statement form.

The information identified in paragraph f (1) above should be filed with the Circuit Clerk under seal using the form called Confidential Disclosure Statement as set forth in the Forms portion of these rules, and hereinafter called f (1) Confidential Disclosure Statement.

The Circuit Clerk must file the Confidential Disclosure Statement under seal and place the filing date and filing party on the public docket.

The Circuit Clerk shall file the f (1) Confidential Disclosure Statement under seal and note the date and which party filed the f (1) Confidential Disclosure Statement under seal on the public docket.

Sealed information is accessible without a court order only to judges, parties, and their current attorneys of record; anyone else must petition for access, establish the basis, and obtain a hearing before an in-camera judicial review.

Only judges, the parties and their present attorneys of record shall have access to the sealed information without a Court Order. Anyone else seeking access to the information must file a petition setting forth the basis for needing the information and set the matter for hearing after notice to the parties and attorneys of record pursuant to local rule. A judge of this circuit will then review the petition and sealed information in camera to determine whether or not the information merits disclosure.

Information that is impounded, sealed, or expunged is excluded from public electronic access, and inspection requests must be made in person at the clerk's office.

VIS.: (a) Information that is impounded, sealed or expunged pursuant to law or by court rule, order or court, or pursuant to the Manual on Recordkeeping shall be excluded from public access in electronic form. Access and inspection of this information is governed by the existing court rules and laws for public access of the official court record. Requests for inspection must be made in person at the office of the clerk of court.

Specified sensitive, proprietary, judicial-work-product, juror, and other listed information is excluded from public electronic access unless provided at the clerk's office through a non-downloadable, non-exportable computer terminal.

While there is no authority prohibiting public access to certain other categories of information, there is no need to disclose such information to the public in an electronic form. The following information is excluded from public access in electronic form, unless access is provided at the office of the clerk of court. Such access shall be through the use of a computer terminal which does not allow information to be downloaded or exported, and only if such access is not otherwise prohibited by this Policy.

Circuit clerks must withhold specified personal, medical, employment, address, minor-child, and minor-offense information from Internet access by the general public.

A. The Circuit Clerks shall cause the following recorded information not to be provided on the Internet for access by the general public: 44 ===== PAGE 60 ===== 1. Driver's License Numbers 2. Medical Records 3. Employment History Information 4. Residential Street Addresses 5. All ordinance violations that are committed by minors under the age of seventeen (17) shall not be identified or disseminated over the Internet. 5. Names of Minor Children

Personal information identified in paragraph (1) must be submitted to the Circuit Clerk under seal using the Confidential Disclosure Statement.

The information identified in paragraph f (1) above should be filed with the Circuit Clerk under seal using the form called Confidential Disclosure Statement as set forth in the Forms portion of these rules, and hereinafter called f (1) Confidential Disclosure Statement.

The Circuit Clerk must file the Confidential Disclosure Statement under seal and place the filing date and filing party on the public docket.

The Circuit Clerk shall file the f (1) Confidential Disclosure Statement under seal and note the date and which party filed the f (1) Confidential Disclosure Statement under seal on the public docket.

The Guardian Information Sheet must be impounded with the Circuit Clerk because it contains personally identifiable information.

Because the Information Sheet contains personal identifiable information, the Guardian Information Sheet shall be impounded with the Circuit Clerk.

Access to the Guardian Information Sheet is limited to the Court and the respondent's guardian ad litem unless a court order provides otherwise.

Access to the Guardian Information Sheet shall be limited to the Court and the guardian ad litem for the respondent unless otherwise directed by court order.

Information outside subsections (a) and (b) may be excluded from public electronic access by local rule.

Information not covered in subsections (a) and (b) may be excluded from public access in electronic form by local rule.