Metcalfe County Circuit Court, Kentucky Sealing & Redaction Procedures

CRITICAL

For covered personal identifiers, parties must file a redacted copy and a marked, sealed unredacted copy, which may be accessed only by the specified persons.

However, except as set forth in paragraph B below, where personal identifiers are one copy from which any personal data has been redacted and filing an unredacted copy pursuant to the above-stated chapters, parties shall comply with CR 7.03(1)(b) by filing in a marked and sealed envelope. The clerk of the court shall allow the unredacted accessed only by a party to the case, an attorney of record in the case, a judge of the sealed copy of the pleading, document, or exhibit containing personal identifiers to be Cabinet for Health and Family Services involved in child support matters attendant to court or other authorized court personnel, a duly authorized employee or agent of the the case, or a person authorized to view the copy by specific orders of the court.

WARNING

Documents filed in actions made confidential by statute need not be redacted, and access is governed by the cited statutes and applicable rules.

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

WARNING

When consolidated actions include one that was not confidential, the surviving action is not confidential except for portions the court elects to seal.

When more than one child support, custody, visitation, paternity, or marital dissolution simultaneously in Family Court, so as to promote judicial economy or the interest of justice, actions into a single action which shall be deemed the surviving action in which the court on its own motion or on motion of any party the court may consolidate two or more of such shall designate and align the parties according to their interests; whereupon, if any of the actions so consolidated previously was not confidential, the surviving action (except for such portions thereof as the court in its discretion may seal) shall have no confidential character.