Boone Circuit Court Sealing & Redaction Procedures

CRITICAL

Diversion Program records and offense-related statements are privileged and confidential, generally cannot be admitted, discovered, subpoenaed, or released without written consent, subject to stated access and victim-information exceptions.

All records of the Diversion Program, and all statements made by the accused to the diversion officer regarding the offense for which the accused was placed on diversion shall be privileged, shall not be admissible or discoverable for any purpose, shall be exempt from subpoena and shall be deemed confidential except for the program staff, the trial judge, and the chief district judge, for purposes of program review, monitoring and supervision and shall not be released to any other person or entity without prior written consent of the chief district judge and the accused. However, nothing in this paragraph shall be deemed to prohibit release of information to the victim of a crime regarding an accused's participation in the Diversion Program.

WARNING

Mediation-program records are privileged, exempt from subpoena, and confidential, subject to an exception whose text is cut off in the source.

All records of the mediation program shall be privileged and exempt from subpoena and will be deemed confidential except for the program staff and the Chief District