Vigo County Courts, Indiana Sealing & Redaction Procedures

Search warrants must remain confidential until duly executed service is returned.

All search warrants shall be confidential prior to the return of duly executed service.

Arrest warrants for criminal offenses must remain confidential until duly executed service is returned, unless the State applies in a particular case for an order lifting confidentiality to facilitate peaceful surrender.

All arrest warrants for criminal offenses shall be confidential prior to return of duly executed service, unless in a particular case, the State applies for an Order lifting confidentiality in order to facilitate the peaceful surrender of the person for whom the arrest warrant was issued.

Indictments must remain confidential until duly executed service is returned.

All indictments shall be confidential prior to the return of duly executed service.

An information is confidential before duly executed service only if filed after or contemporaneously with issuance of an arrest warrant following a probable-cause finding.

Only those informations filed after, or contemporaneously with, the issuance of an arrest warrant after a finding of probable cause shall be confidential prior to duly executed service.