Meade Circuit Court Sealing & Redaction Procedures

The Clerk must keep the Title Opinion under seal, with inspection limited to the Court, the Master Commissioner, the parties or their counsel, or as ordered by the Court.

Said Title Opinion shall be kept under seal by the Clerk subject only to inspection by the Court, the Master Commissioner, the parties to the action or their counsel, or upon order of the Court;

Criminal cases

Diversion Program records and specified statements are confidential and generally privileged, inadmissible, undiscoverable, and exempt from subpoena; release is restricted, subject to stated exceptions.

All records of the Diversion Program, and all statements made by the accused to the pretrial 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.

Civil cases

Except as provided in paragraph B, parties must file a redacted copy and an unredacted copy in a marked, sealed envelope when covered filings contain personal identifiers.

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.