Daviess Circuit Court Sealing & Redaction Procedures

CRITICAL

When personal identifiers are required or appear in covered filings, parties must file a redacted copy and a marked, sealed unredacted copy; access to the sealed copy is restricted.

However, except as set forth in Paragraph (b) below, where personal identifiers are required by statute or contained in other documents or exhibits filed with the court pursuant to the above-stated chapters, parties shall comply with CR 7.03(1)(b) by filing one copy from which any personal data has been redacted and filing an unredacted copy in a marked and sealed envelope. The Clerk of the court shall allow the unredacted sealed copy of the pleading, document, or exhibit to be accessed only by an attorney of record in the case, a judge of the court or other authorized court personnel. Otherwise, access to the sealed documents shall be by specific court order only.

CRITICAL

The Circuit Court file for an immediate entitlement petition and the District Court Juvenile file provided to the assigned Circuit Judge must be kept under seal.

The Circuit Court file created for the Immediate Entitlement Petition shall be kept under seal, and the clerk shall provide the District Court Juvenile file under seal to the assigned Circuit Judge.

WARNING

Pleadings, documents, and exhibits in actions deemed confidential by statute need not be redacted, and access is governed by the cited statutes.

Pleadings, documents, or exhibits filed in actions deemed confidential by statute need not be redacted, and any access to those filed shall be governed by KRS 199.570, KRS 610.340, KRS 625.045 and KRS 625.108.