McCracken Circuit Court Sealing & Redaction Procedures

CRITICAL

Access to the sealed, unredacted copy containing personal identifiers is limited to the listed case participants, authorized personnel, and persons specifically authorized by court order.

The clerk of the court shall allow the unredacted sealed copy of the pleading, document, or exhibit containing personal identifiers to be accessed authorized court personnel, a duly authorized employee or agent of the Cabinet for Health only by a party to the case, an attorney of record in the case, a judge of the court or other and Family Services involved in child support matters attendant to the case, or a person authorized to view the copy by specific orders of the court.

CRITICAL

Within 30 days after the final order, the Clerk must seal the adoption records; the Clerk or Deputy Clerks may open them only as necessary to perform their duties and may furnish specified certified copies to adoptive parents, while inspection by another person requires a written court order.

records in a suitable envelope which shall be sealed. The Clerk or Deputy Clerks are pemitted to Within 30 days of the entry of the final order in an adoption case, the Clerk shall place all papers and duties as custodians of the records and may furnish certified copies of the Findings, Conclusions and unseal and open an adoption file only for such reasons as are necessary in the performance of their by any other person except on written order of the court. Order of Adoption to the adoptive parents, however, the records shall not be opened for inspection

CRITICAL

When personal identifiers are required or appear in filed documents or exhibits, parties must file a redacted copy and a marked, sealed unredacted copy, subject to the statutory-confidentiality exception in paragraph B.

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.

WARNING

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

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